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What the Banded Fruit Dove sounds like

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The banded fruit dove has a white head, dark gray back, a yellow underbelly, and a black breast-band above the white breast and grey belly.
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When to see the Banded Fruit Dove
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Banded Fruit Dove
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Banded Fruit Dove
The banded fruit dove or black-backed fruit dove is a large pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head.
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Easily confused with
Beautiful Fruit DovePtilinopus pulchellusThe beautiful fruit dove, also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove, is a small, approximately 19 cm long, mainly green fruit dove.
Claret-breasted Fruit DovePtilinopus viridisThe claret-breasted fruit dove is 20–21 cm (7.9–8.3 in) in length.
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