Yellowish Imperial Pigeon
Ducula subflavescens
Range and population
Ducula subflavescens is endemic to
New
Britain
,
New Ireland
, Manus and nearby
small islands in
Papua New Guinea
. It is locally common on
New Britain
in flocks
of up to a few tens of birds but on
New
Ireland
there are recent records only from
the far south and there are only two recent records from Manus. It is a nomadic
forest species, usually seen in lowland forest but recorded sporadically up to
900 m on New Britain1,2,3,5. It may have a requirement
for coastal or lowland riverine forest4 and most records are
from primary forest but it appears not to be threatened by hunting2.
Most lowland forest and especially coastal forest in this species's range is
threatened by logging but there are few data to assess the species's habitat
requirements and hence population trends.
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