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Beautiful fruit dove

Ptilinopus pulchellus (Temminck, 1835)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus) is a species in the family Columbidae, order Columbiformes. Recorded adults weigh 70 g to 76 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
Photo: eric from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the beautiful fruit dove

Weight
70 g – 76 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the beautiful fruit dove live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The beautiful fruit dove is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the beautiful fruit dove?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus), also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove, is a small, approximately 19 cm (7+1⁄2 in) long, mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow bill and purplish-red feet. It has a blue-grey breast and yellowish orange belly, with a reddish purple patch in between. Both sexes are similar.

The beautiful fruit dove is distributed in rainforests of New Guinea and the islands of Batanta, Waigeo, Salawati and Misool in West Papua, Indonesia, primarily in flat terrain. The female usually lays a single white egg.

Its diet consists mainly of various fruits from trees, palms and vines. In the Port Moresby area, birds were found to eat a mixed diet in May. Large Tristiropsis canarioides fruit were taken when available, but the species gets displaced from fruiting trees by larger pigeons such as the collared imperial pigeon (Ducula mullerii). Small Endiandra sp. fruit were very often eaten, but made up only a small quantity of food volume. Other food were Gymnacranthera paniculata and small quantities of Polyalthia sp., Livistona palm fruit, and occasionally pepper (Piper) berries. Despite their small size, they are able to swallow fruits of 5 cm³ volume, which would translate into a diameter of about 2 cm in spherical fruit. (Frith et al. 1976)

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the beautiful fruit dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

From the Wikipedia article “Beautiful fruit dove” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beautiful_fruit_dove&oldid=1314042636), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the beautiful fruit dove endangered?

The beautiful fruit dove is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the beautiful fruit dove classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderColumbiformes
  5. familyColumbidae
  6. genusPtilinopus
  7. SpeciesPtilinopus pulchellus (Temminck, 1835)

Synonyms Columba pulchella, Ptilinopus pulchellus decorus, Ptilinopus pulchellus pulchellus

Other names and names in other languages (41)
  • Beautiful fruit-doveEnglish
  • Beautiful fruit-doveEnglish
  • Beautiful fruit-doveEnglish
  • Crimson-capped fruit-doveEnglish
  • Crimson-capped fruit-doveEnglish
  • Rose-fronted pigeonEnglish
  • Rose-fronted pigeonEnglish
  • يمام الفاكهة الجميلArabic
  • tilinop esplèndidCatalan
  • holub malovanýCzech
  • turtur ffrwythau bengochWelsh
  • Hvidkindet FrugtdueDanish
  • RotkappenfruchttaubeGerman
  • Rotkappen-FruchttaubeGerman
  • Belega fruktokolomboEsperanto
  • beleta fruktokolomboEsperanto
  • Tilopo bonitoSpanish
  • valgekurk-rohetuviEstonian
  • کبوتر میوهخوار زیباPersian
  • kaunohedelmäkyyhkyFinnish
  • Ptilope mignonFrench
  • bjelogrla voćaricaCroatian
  • vörössapkás gyümölcsgalambHungarian
  • Walik elokIndonesian
  • Tortora beccafrutta magnificaItalian
  • ノドジロヒメアオバトJapanese
  • gražusis karvelis vaislesysLithuanian
  • Temmincks JufferduifDutch
  • afroditefruktdueNorwegian
  • owocożer białolicyPolish
  • pombo-da-fruta-bonitoPortuguese
  • pomba-da-fruta-de-barriga-laranjaPortuguese
  • pombo-frugívoro-bonitoPortuguese
  • Красношапочный фруктовый голубьRussian
  • Малиновошапочный пёстрый голубьRussian
  • pestroš sivoprsýSlovak
  • karmosinkronad fruktduvaSwedish
  • Kestane Kuşaklı Meyve KumrusuTurkish
  • тілопо білогорлийUkrainian
  • 红顶果鸠Chinese
  • 華麗果鳩Chinese

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Relatives of the beautiful fruit dove

Other species in the same genus Ptilinopus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the beautiful fruit dove?

An adult beautiful fruit dove weighs 70 g – 76 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the beautiful fruit dove live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the beautiful fruit dove for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the beautiful fruit dove endangered?

The beautiful fruit dove is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the beautiful fruit dove?

The beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus) belongs to the family Columbidae in the order Columbiformes.

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BibTeX
@misc{beautiful_fruit_dove_2026,
  title = {Beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/beautiful-fruit-dove},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}