Blue-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus monacha) [XC533652]
by Marc Anderson from Weda, Central Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia (song)
Blue-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus monacha) [XC151638]
by Frank Lambert from Weda, Central Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia (call)
Subspecies
A distinct form of uncertain affinities, formerly considered to be very closely related to Coroneted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus coronulatus), but now thought to be more distant. Sometimes placed with Coroneted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus coronulatus) in the large Grey-green Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus purpuratus) species-group.