Yellow-breasted fruit dove

Yellow-breasted fruit dove
Adult nominate in captivity
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: P. occipitalis
Binomial name
Ptilinopus occipitalis
Gray, 1844

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 subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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