Beautiful Fruit Dove

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus), also known as the Rose-fronted Pigeon or Crimson-capped Fruit Dove (leading to easy confusion with the Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove), is a small, approximately 19 cm (7¿ in) long, mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow bill and purplish-red feet. It has a blue-grey breast and yellowish orange belly, with a reddish purple patch in between. Both sexes are similar.The Beautiful Fruit Dove is distributed in rainforests of New Guinea and the islands of Batanta, Waigeo, Salawati and Misool in West Papua, Indonesia. The female usually lays a single white egg.