About Streptopelia bitorquata (Temminck, 1809)
The Sunda collared dove, scientific name Streptopelia bitorquata (Temminck, 1809), is a small to medium-sized bird. Its neck and chest have a light rosy hue, which fades to light caramel on its underside, and becomes cream at the base of its tail. The leading portion of its wings is light grey, shifting to a steely grey near the wing end and extending all the way to the tail tip. The undertail feathers are eggshell white, and the tail itself has multiple layers of color ranging from creamy to ashen grey. Like most pigeons and doves, it has quite rounded eyes, which are colored an orange caramel shade. Its main distinguishing feature is a dusty black band that spans half its neck, with a white stripe visible just above this band. The Philippine collared dove was once treated as a subspecies of this bird, and together the two were called the island collared dove. This species is distributed across Indonesia from Java and Bali, through Komodo, Lombok, Sumbawa, Timor, Flores, and Solor, to the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest.
