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Taxonomic note
Ptilinopus porphyraceus, P. fasciatus, P. ponapensis and P. hernsheimi (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously lumped as P. porphyraceus following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2016	Least Concern
2014	Least Concern

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	805,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	stable	-	suspected	-
Generation length	3.2 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the pre-split P. porphyraceus was reported to be common to abundant (del Hoyo et al. 1997, Gibbs et al. 2001).

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Fiji	extant	native	yes
Niue (to New Zealand)	extant	native	yes
Tonga	extant	native	yes
Wallis and Futuna Islands (to France)	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Fiji	Rotuma
Fiji	Ogea
Tonga	Niuafo'ou
Tonga	Late
Tonga	Tofua and Kao
Tonga	Hunga Ha'apai, Hunga Tonga Islands
Niue (to New Zealand)	Huvalu and environs
Wallis and Futuna Islands (to France)	Alofi

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	suitable	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Moist	suitable	resident
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Primary form used	Life stage used	Source	Scale	Level	Timing
Food - human	-	-	-		non-trivial	recent
Pets/display animals, horticulture	-	-	-	international	non-trivial	recent

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Ptilinopus porphyraceus. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/tongan-fruit-dove-ptilinopus-porphyraceus on 29/11/2023.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org on 29/11/2023.