The yellow-breasted fruit dove (''Ptilinopus occipitalis'') locally known as ''balorinay'' 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 family

Columbidae Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...

. It is

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to the

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. 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 ...

tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

. While it is listed as least concern in IUCN, it is declining due to habitat loss, hunting, and trapping for the illegal

wildlife trade Wildlife trade refers to the of products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions. It can involve the trade of living or dead individuals, ti ...

. It is illegal to hunt, capture, or keep yellow-breasted fruit-doves under Philippine Law RA 9147.

Taxonomy and systematics

The yellow-breasted fruit dove is one of over 50 species in the genus ''

Ptilinopus The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons, are a genus (''Ptilinopus'') of birds in the pigeon and dove family (Columbidae). These colourful, frugivorous doves are found in forests and woodlands in Southeast Asia and Oceania. It is a large gen ...

.'' Within the genus, it is most closely allied to the red-eared fruit dove and the Lompobattang fruit dove. The species was formerly placed in the obsolete genus '' Leucotreron.'' The species' generic name comes from the

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''ptilon'' (feather) and ''pous'' (foot), while the

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''occipitalis'' is from

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, meaning "of the back of the head". Alternative names for the yellow-breasted fruit dove include sulphur-breasted fruit dove. There are two recognised subspecies. However, they are recognised only on the basis on minor differences in size and plumage, and may be better treated as monotypic. * ''P. o. occipitalis'' – Gray & Mitchell, 1844: The nominate subspecies, it is found in the north and central

from southern

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, and

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. * ''P. o. incognitus'' – Tweeddale, 1877: It is found in the southeastern Philippines, in the mountains of Dinagat,

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and

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. Birds from the Mindanao highlands have occasionally been separated as ''brevipes'' on the basis of differences in plumage.

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yellow-breasted fruit dove The yellow-breasted fruit dove (''Ptilinopus occipitalis'') locally known as ''balorinay'' is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forest. While it is listed ...

Endemic birds of the Philippines

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