Cream-breasted fruit dove

Cream-breasted fruit dove
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: P. merrilli
Binomial name
Ptilinopus merrilli
(McGregor, 1916)

The cream-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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