Male © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography eBird S65189244 Macaulay Library ML 206020121
Female © Andrew Spencer
Male © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
Female © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
Male © Andy Walker - Birding Ecotours
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Male © Dubi Shapiro
Male © Jens Thalund

Cloven-feathered Dove Drepanoptila holosericea

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Identification

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Unique and spectacular large dove with a weird shape: fat with a short tail and lumpy head. Male bright green with a yellow belly and very long, even brighter yellow undertail coverts that nearly reach the tip of the tail. Note paler whitish bands on the wings and uppertail. Female mostly a slightly duller green than the male, with a faint echo of the same patterning. Typically found at mid to high levels in tall trees. Note far carrying voice: a prolonged, mournful series of low-pitched hoots, slightly higher-pitched and more drawn out than the song of New Caledonian Imperial-Pigeon.

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