Black-chinned Fruit-Dove
Ptilinopus leclancheri
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The Black-chinned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus leclancheri), also known as the Black-throated Fruit Dove or Leclancher's Dove, is a medium-sized (up to 27 cm long) bird of the Columbidae family. The male is a colorful bird with a green belly and wings, a brown tail, a whitish grey head and neck with a purple base, red iris and a small black patch under its yellow bill. The female has a green head, neck and breast.
The Black-chinned Fruit Dove is distributed in lowland forests of Taiwan and the Philippines, where it is fairly common. On Taiwan, it is very rare, known only from four specimens.
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