Yellow-bibbed fruit dove

The yellow-bibbed fruit dove or yellow-banded fruit dove (Ptilinopus solomonensis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Bismarck and Solomon Islands archipelagos. The Geelvink fruit dove (P. speciosus) was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.^[2]

Yellow-bibbed fruit dove
Illustration by Joseph Smit
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Ptilinopus
Species:	P. solomonensis
Binomial name
Ptilinopus solomonensis Gray, GR, 1870

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.