Distribution
The beautiful fruit dove is distributed in rainforests of New Guinea and the islands of Batanta, Waigeo, Salawati and Misool in West Papua, Indonesia. The female usually lays a single white egg.Status
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the beautiful fruit dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Food
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. 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 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.References:
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