© Hervé JACOB
© Hervé JACOB
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© Bruce Wedderburn

Cook Islands Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

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Identification

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A colorful dove with a bright green body, a light gray neck and chest, a yellow undertail, and a gray tip to the tail. Most obvious features are the bright magenta forehead and chest blotch. Pacific Imperial-Pigeon is much larger, with an entirely silver neck and head and no magenta patches. Unlikely to be confused with any other species. Gives a long series of typical dove-like accelerating and shortening “coo” calls.

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