As Pink-necked Fruit Doves have a very small range and are quite shy, studying the species is incredibly difficult. Both males and females have pink/purplish heads and necks with a white band on their chest and green, gray and yellow feathers. As they do not eat the seeds, the Doves disperse the seeds and actually help to regrow their own food source. Pink-necked Fruit Doves are native to southeast Asia and the mountains of the islands of Bali, Sumatra and Java where they eat fruit and berries. To date, four Many-colored Fruit Dove chicks have hatched at the Zoo. The birds underwent an acclimation and quarantine period of approximately 60 days and were then set up in pairs to breed in our off-exhibit Avian Breeding Center. In October of 2016, four male and four female Many-colored Fruit Doves or Manuma, were transported from Pago Pago, American Samoa to the Zoo. Unfortunately, with the current rate of these trees being cut down for human expansion, relying on such a threatened food source could soon be very harmful to the longevity of the species. These little birds have been observed in small flocks in the canopy of banyan trees, where they eat the fruit the tree produces. The global population size has not been properly quantified, but the species is reported to be uncommon, localized and decreasing. Many-colored fruit doves are native to American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
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