Streptopelia chinensis (Scopoli, 1786)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11645901
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB878A-FFDD-E136-A38F-FD59FD20FCE9
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Streptopelia chinensis
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**SPOTTED DOVE Streptopelia chinensis View in CoL

Status Resident. Introduced to Indonesian New Guinea and first recorded on Biak in June– July 2004 at the grounds of Biak airport hotel (M. Halaouate in litt. 2021). The species ‘has been an integral part of the domestic environment in the Malay Archipelago since ancient times’ ( Layton 1991) and is a common cagebird throughout Indonesia; also introduced to the Moluccas, Sulawesi and New Britain ( Long 1981).