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Species
Ptilinopus magnificus Temminck, 1821
Nomenclature
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Family: ColumbidaeGenus: Ptilinopus
Species:
Ptilinopus magnificus Temminck, 1821
Usage:
valid
Vernacular names:
Vernacular name:
Wompoo Fruit Dove, Magnificent/Purple-breasted Fruit-dove; Wompoo/Purple-bellied/King Pigeon/Fruit-pigeon
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SUMMARY
The Wompoo Fruit-Dove is identified by its large size, rich purple throat, chest and upper belly, and yellow lower belly. It has mostly green underparts, with a paler grey head and a conspicuous yellow wing-bar. It is perhaps the most beautiful of all the doves found in Australia, and both sexes are similar in plumage. Birds from the north are smaller than those in the south. Young Wompoos are duller and greener than the adults. The call is a deep resonant "wollack-a-woo" and, occasionally, a more abrupt "boo".