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Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon
Ducula brenchleyi (Gray, GR, 1870)
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon, Ducula brenchleyi, is a bird of the southern Solomon Islands, including Guadalcanal, Malaita and Makira and their satellites. It belongs to the pigeon and dove family. It lives in moist lowland forest and moist montane forest in the subtropical or tropical zone, mainly between 200 and 700 metres, although in many places it is now found higher up because of forest clearance. Its main food is banyan figs.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Guadalcanal, Malaita and Makira and satellites (sc, se Solomon Is.)
