Raiatea Fruit Dove

When to see the Raiatea Fruit Dove

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Raiatea Fruit Dove

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Raiatea Fruit Dove

The Raiatea fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Society Islands in French Polynesia. Although first named to science in 1853, this fruit dove was evidently discovered 30 years earlier, by René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), while serving as naturalist aboard La Coquille. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the grey-green fruit dove but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests.

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Easily confused with

Whistling DovePtilinopus layardiThe whistling dove is a small dove (20 cm (7.9 in)) that is sexually dimorphic in its velvety plumage. Carunculated Fruit DovePtilinopus granulifronsThe carunculated fruit dove is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. Lilac-crowned Fruit DovePtilinopus rarotongensisThe lilac-crowned fruit dove, also known as the Rarotonga fruit-dove or Cook Islands fruit-dove, is one of over 50 species of Ptilinopus.