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Banded fruit dove

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Banded fruit dove
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The banded fruit dove or black-backed fruit dove (Ptilinopus cinctus) is a large (38–44 cm in length, 450-570 g in weight) pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head.

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Distribution and habitat

The banded fruit dove is found in Bali, and Lesser Sunda Islands. Its habitat is in monsoonal rainforest.

Behaviour and ecology

Breeding

It lays a single egg on an open platform of sticks in a forest tree.

Feeding

It eats fruit from forest trees, especially figs.

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