Juvenile © Greg Baker
Adult © Mark Maddock
Adult © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
Adult © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
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Adult © Nigel Voaden
Adult © Charles Davies

Silver-capped Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus richardsii

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Identification

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A colorful dove. Males have a bright silver head and chest, green wings, and a bright orange belly and undertail. Females are more uniformly green, with a yellow undertail and a grayish cast to the face. In flight, wings appear strongly blue. Occurs alongside Yellow-bibbed and White-headed Fruit-Doves, but male Silver-capped almost impossible to misidentify. Female is more similar to the other species, but gray face, dark beady eye, and silverish throat are diagnostic. Gives a typical dove-like bouncing, cooing call likened to laughter.

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