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Kosrae Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus hernsheimi Finsch, 1880
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Kosrae Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus hernsheimi, is a bird of the Columbidae family that breeds on Kosrae in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. It was described by Finsch in 1880. It is associated with subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and with subtropical or tropical mangrove forest. Formerly treated as a subspecies of the crimson-crowned fruit dove, it is now recognised as a separate species.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Kosrae (e Caroline Is., c Micronesia)
