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When to see the Oberholser's Fruit Dove
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Oberholser's Fruit Dove
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Indonesia.
About the Oberholser's Fruit Dove
Oberholser's fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It was formerly named P. epius, but it has since been revised to the earlier name P. gularis. It is endemic to Sulawesi. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-breasted Fruit DoveRamphiculus occipitalisIt is locally known as siete colores, which means 7 colors and has been nicknamed by birdwatchers as sapin-sapin, which is a multicolored Filipino desert.
Banggai Fruit DoveRamphiculus subgularisThe Banggai fruit dove is a large gray and green dove that lives in the Banggai Islands.
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