Jambu Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus jambu
Range and population
Ptilinopus jambu is confined to the Sundaic lowlands, from peninsular
Thailand
,
Sabah
,
Sarawak
and Peninsular
Malaysia
,
Singapore
(scarce and irregular non-breeding visitor),
Kalimantan
,
Sumatra
and West Java, Indonesia
and
Brunei
. It inhabits mangrove and evergreen forests to 1,500m.
Forest
destruction in
the Sundaic lowlands of
Indonesia
has been so extensive that all primary formations are expected to
disappear by 2010, and the situation is little different in
Malaysia
. However, the species's ability to persist in second growth and at
higher elevations, where forest destruction has been less severe, means that its
decline has been less rapid than for lowland primary forest specialists.
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