![]() This strict diet keeps the two fig species in check however, any decline in the amount of figs may be a disaster for the many-colored fruit dove. On Samoa and American Samoa it is mostly the banyan. It forages the canopies of trees in search of figs. The many-colored fruit dove is a frugivore. The manuma's fossil range is from 0.12 million years ago to today, exclusively in the quaternary. In these forests, they are found in the canopies. They can be found in lowland subtropical and tropical broadleaf forests. They are most often found in Fiji and Tonga. Manuma are found across many islands and archipelagos across Polynesia with a range of 660,000 sq. Their Latin name honors Captain Jean Francois de Galaup Comte de la PĂ©rouse of the French navy and explored the Pacific. The Samoan name manuma means shy bird and comes from the Samoan words for bird and shame. Its English name is literal: it is a many-colored dove that eats fruit. The mariae subspecies is found in Fiji and Tonga. The two subspecies are Ptilinopus perousii mariae and P. However, it is very far from most other doves and has no close relatives due to it being endemic to the South Pacific islands. ![]() ![]() It a fruit dove meaning it belongs to genus Ptilinopus. The many-colored fruit dove is in the columbid family with the other doves and pigeons. It only has a crimson corona unlike the male. They have grey on the bottom while green on top. The female is said to resemble the purple-capped fruit dove however, there is no yellow band. Male Ptilinopus perousii perousii is pale on the bottom and yellow on top. Her crown is red while the undertail-coverts are red in Samoan birds and yellow in birds from Fiji and Tonga. The female is mostly green, darker on the back and greyer on the head and breast. The male is mostly pale yellow-white with a red crown and red bar across the back. It is a small dove, 23 cm (9.1 in) in length. ![]()
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