The Sulawesi ground dove (''Gallicolumba tristigmata'') also known as yellow-breasted ground dove is a medium-sized, approximately 35 cm long, olive-brown ground dove with golden forehead, yellow breast, red legs, iridescent bluish-green crown ended with purple patch behind ear coverts, dark brown tail and white below. Both sexes are similar.
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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 ...
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endemic
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, this elusive species is distributed to primary rainforests 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 ...
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Wallacea
Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves. Wallacea includes Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as Lo ...
. The Sulawesi ground dove is a
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
bird. Its diet consists mainly of seeds and fallen fruits taken from feeding grounds. The female lays a single white egg.
The Sulawesi ground dove is evaluated as least concern on the
IUCN Red List
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of Threatened Species.
References
External links
BirdLife Species Factsheet
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Gallicolumba
Endemic birds of Sulawesi
Birds described in 1855
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte