Conservation status:
Not Threatened.
Behaviour:
Phylogeny:
Taxonomy:
- Columba bicolor Scopoli, 1786, New Guinea. Forms a distinctive superspecies with D. spilorrhoa and D. luctuosa; species limits in this group are unclear, and all three sometimes considered conspecific; other authors recognize up to five species; further study required. Race melanura has sometimes been classified as a separate species, but alternatively it has been considered a mere colour morph, unworthy of taxonomic recognition: there is evidence that both nominate bicolor and race melanura occur sympatrically on Kai, Ambon, Bacan, Halmahera and perhaps other islands, which has alternatively been in.. View all taxonomy... (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
Subspecies and Distribution:
- * bicolor (Scopoli, 1786) - coasts and small islands from Andaman and Nicobar Is, W Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, peninsular and coastal Thailand and Cambodia through Indonesia and Philippines to W Papuan Is (Salawati, Misool) and coastal Vogelkop (W New Guinea). * melanura (G. R. Gray, 1860) - Moluccas, on Bacan, Halmahera, Obi, Seram, Buru, Ambon, Kai Is, Moti and Muor; also Komodo and Tanimbar Is (Lesser Sundas).
Trophic strategy:
Frugivorous, the most important were palms, nutmegs, laurels. In lower canopy, usually singly.
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