claret-breasted fruit-dove Ptilinopus viridis

A small green dove with a diagnostic burgundy breast patch, a gray head, a pale gray shoulder patch, and spots on the wings. Some females lack the unique vinous breast patch. Duller juveniles show some yellow fringing on the wings. Typically found singly or in pairs in lowland and hill forest as well as in plantations and some wooded patches. Gray shoulder patch and wing spots of female separates her from female White-breasted Fruit-Dove. Cooing song varies geographically; on mainland New Guinea it is a two-noted “coop-coOW.”