Tooth-billed Pigeon vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Didunculus strigirostris 对比 Ptilinopus mercierii

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Tooth-billed Pigeon Red-moustached Fruit-dove
学名 Didunculus strigirostris Ptilinopus mercierii
Columbiformes Columbiformes
Columbidae Columbidae
保护状况 Critically Endangered Extinct
体长
翼展 37.6 cm (14.8 in)
体重 400.0 g (14.11 oz)
食性 -- --
产卵数 2 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共同栖息地

Tooth-billed Pigeon only

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

保护状况

Critically Endangered

Tooth-billed Pigeon

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Tooth-billed Pigeon

羽毛

Tooth-billed Pigeon: dark chestnut; glossy neck; pale below; hooked tooth-like bill; Samoa endemic; critically endangered unique pigeon

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

About These Birds

Tooth-billed Pigeon

Unusual, stocky pigeon, 29–31 cm, with dark green and chestnut-rufous plumage and a uniquely hooked, tooth-like bill unlike any other living pigeon. Endemic to Samoa. Inhabits montane and secondary forest. Feeds on fruits and seeds on the ground and in trees. Endangered due to deforestation and cyclone damage.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Red-moustached Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus mercierii), 27 cm. Green with a red moustachial streak and orange underparts; endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Last confirmed on Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Possibly Extinct; last reliably recorded in the 1970s. Threatened by introduced rats and cats.

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