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The red-eared fruit dove (''Ptilinopus fischeri'') is a species of
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
in the pigeon family. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the island of
Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.


Distribution

Its natural
habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...
is subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...
s. They are found at elevations between 1,000 - 3,000m.


Subspecies

There are three subspecies of the red-eared fruit dove: * Ptilinopus fischeri fischeri (Found in north Sulawesi) * Ptilinopus fischeri centralis (Found in central and southeastern Sulawesi) * Ptilinopus fischeri meridionalis (Found in southwest Sulawesi)


Status

It is listed as
least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...
by the IUCN although their populations are currently decreasing.


See also

*
Lompobattang fruit-dove The Lompobattang fruit-dove (''Ptilinopus meridionalis'') is a species of bird in the pigeon family. It is native to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Description These birds are around long. They have black upperparts and a grey head and underparts. The ...
- a similar species *
Fauna of Indonesia The fauna of Indonesia is characterised by high levels of biodiversity and endemicity due to its distribution over a vast tropical archipelago. Indonesia divides into two ecological regions; western Indonesia which is more influenced by Asian fa ...
*
List of least concern birds In December 2019, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 8460 least concern avian species. Of all evaluated avian species, 76.9% are listed as least concern. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN. ...


References

Ptilinopus Birds described in 1876 Endemic birds of Sulawesi Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Columbiformes-stub