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Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove

Ptilinopus regina

• uncommon
• 63 km/h
• Least Concern

Tiny jewel of Australian coastal scrub.

Population

Global population not numerically quantified by IUCN/BirdLife; species described as common/widespread across most of its ~6,130,000 km² range, with a suspected 1-19% decline over three generations tied to ~15.8% tree-cover loss

Habitat

Subtropical/tropical moist lowland and monsoon forest, tall coastal woodland with fruiting trees, dense vine thickets, and occasionally mangroves, from sea level to about 1,290 m elevation

Fun fact

Despite its vivid rose-pink crown and orange belly, the Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove is also called the Pink-capped Fruit Dove or Swainson's Fruit-Dove, and its Indonesian subspecies (P. r. xanthogaster) has a whitish crown instead of pink.

Range

Northern and eastern Australia (Kimberley WA through the Top End, Cape York and Torres Strait, to mid-north coast NSW), Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia, and Timor-Leste

Diet

Frugivorous — swallows fruit whole, favoring figs and other rainforest tree fruits, palms, and vines; in Australia also eats introduced Camphor Laurel fruit; obtains most water from dew/leaves rather than drinking on the ground

Size

0.23 m