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  Purple-crowned Pigeon (Ptilinopus superbus)





Purple-crowned Pigeon | Ptilinopus superbus photo
Purple-crowned Pigeon photographed at Walkabout Creek, Brisbane Forest Park.

Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.







BIRD FACTS

Description
The Purple-crowned Pigeon is a beautiful brightly coloured small pigeon. The male has purple crown, chestnut orange on back of neck, blue-black breast band separating grey chest from white belly.. The female has purple patch on rear of crown, and no breast band. Immatures are mostly green with yellow on wings and pale underside.

Other Names
Purple-crowned Fruit Dove

Size
22 - 24cm

Habitat
rainforest, thickly wooded creeks

Food
seeds, fruit, berries, small insects

Breeding
nest is light platform of twigs high in vine or tree. Lays 1 white oval egg

Range
East coastal Queensland from Cape York to around Rockhampton. Occasionally seen in south east Queensland and northern New South Wales, but does not breed this far south.

distribution map showing range of Ptilinopus superbus in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.



Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Columbiformes
Family:Columbidae
Genus:Ptilinopus
Species:superbus
Common Name:Purple-crowned Pigeon

Relatives in same Genus
  Wompoo Pigeon (P. magnificus)
  Rose-crowned Pigeon (P. regina)