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Location:

Tropical Flights

Mariana Fruit Dove

(M) 1/2/2009
(M) 6/26/2009
(M) 4/30/2014
(F) 9/2/2021

Identifying Features:

History:

CONSERVATION: The Phoenix Zoo supports Pacific Bird Conservation's efforts to provide birds of the Mariana archipelago (including the Mariana fruit dove) with the best possible chances of survival by preserving, maintaining, and establishing self-sustaining populations of native birds secure from threats posed by the invasive brown tree snake.

LEARN MORE HERE: http://www.pacificbirdconservation.org/mariana-avifauna-conservation-program.html

More Information:

Found in Guam and Northern Marianas Islands

There are about 50 species of Fruit Doves
Generally frugivores
Found in forests and woodlands of SE Asia an Oceania
Often very colorful with glossy plumange
Many species are very illusive
Closely related to imperial pigeons