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Today's featured article The white-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus eugeniae) is a species of bird in the pigeon family, Columbidae. It was described by John Gould in 1856, and the specific name eugeniae honours Eugénie de Montijo. Adults of the species have white heads, a purplish-red breast patch, a grey shoulder patch, olive-green upperparts, greenish underparts with a blue tinge, and a yellowish vent. Juveniles have green heads with the white restricted to the forehead and upper throat, a much smaller grey shoulder patch, and the red breast patch restricted to the centre of the breast. The species is endemic to Makira and the nearby islands of Ugi and Malaupaina in the Solomon Islands. It inhabits lowland, hill, and ridge forest, along with neighbouring agricultural areas, and is especially common in foothills. Its diet consists of small-seeded fruits and berries. The IUCN considers it a least-concern species. Although it can adapt to disturbed habitat, it is threatened by deforestation and habitat loss. (Full article...) Recently featured: Pennsylvania State Capitol "Blindfold Me" Kaiser-class battleship Did you know... Main building of the Marin County Civic Center ... that a California county government building (pictured) inspired elements of Naboo in the Star Wars prequel trilogy? ... that Toribia Álvaro became a candidate for the Bolivian parliament because no other women of the Uru of Lake Poopó were willing to run? ... that Mark Twain said that the Charlton Public Library banning one of his books was "not of the slightest interest to him"? ... that Dutch painter Henry van Velthuysen dismissed a contemporary's works as "infantile construction-kit shapes"? ... that the spirit Ti Jean, a one-legged cannibal highwayman, evokes colonial fear of maroons? ... that abolitionist Alba Honeywell said he sold the first published copy of anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin? ... that Samoa has 225 species of fern, more than New Zealand, a country 85 times larger? ... that Kelvin Kong, the first recognised Indigenous Australian surgeon, was made a member of the Order of Australia for his services to Indigenous health? ... that Pan Pan is thought to have had more than 130 descendants?

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