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Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus)

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove
Photo: Doug Janson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Pink-spotted Fruit Dove

The pink-spotted fruit dove (Ptilinopus perlatus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in forest and woodland in lowland and foothills of New Guinea and nearby smaller islands. It is widespread and generally common. The pink-spotted fruit dove is one of over 50 species in the genus Ptilinopus. Alternative names for the pink-spotted fruit dove include pink-spotted fruit pigeon. Three subspecies of the pink-spotted fruit dove are recognised. P. p. perlatus – Temminck, 1835: the nominate subspecies P. p. zonurus – Salvadori, 1876: P. p. plumbeicollis – Meyer, A.B.,1890:.

Source: Pink-spotted fruit dove on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 20 recordings for this species: 6 CC BY-NC-ND · 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.