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The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons, are a genus (Ptilinopus) of birds in the pigeon and dove family . These colourful, frugivorous doves are found in forests and woodlands in Southeast Asia and Oceania. It is a large genus with over 50 species, some threatened or already extinct.
Many species supplement their diets with a little fruit, and a small number eat considerable amounts of fruit, [8] particularly in tropical rainforests and, oddly, in semi-arid scrubland. The painted honeyeater is a mistletoe specialist. Most, however, exist on a diet of nectar supplemented by varying quantities of insects.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
Toucans are primarily frugivorous (fruit eating), but are opportunistically omnivorous and will take prey such as insects, smaller birds, and small lizards. [14] Captive toucans have been reported to hunt insects actively in their cages, and it is possible to keep toucans on an insect-only diet.
Female great hornbill feeding on figs. Fruit forms a large part of the diet of forest hornbills. Hornbills are omnivorous birds, eating fruit, insects and small animals. They cannot swallow food caught at the tip of the beak as their tongues are too short to manipulate it, so they toss it back to the throat with a jerk of the head.
The genus Pipreola was introduced in 1838 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate a single species, the fiery-throated fruiteater. [1] [2] The genus name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Pipra that was introduced in 1764 by Carl Linnaeus.
Female eating a flowering dogwood fruit in New York The somewhat confusing specific epithet olivacea ("the olive -colored one") was based on a female or immature specimen rather than erythromelas ("the red-and-black one"), which authors attempted to ascribe to the species throughout the 19th century (older scientific names always takes ...
The family has a Neotropical distribution and is the second-largest family of birds. It represents about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds. [1] Traditionally, the family contained around 240 species of mostly brightly colored fruit-eating birds. [2]