The fruit ripens in summer and autumn (January to April in Australia), and the seed dispersion is mostly the result of scattering by columbiform birds.
The Motagua Valley thornscrub forms a habitat for 75 bird species, mainly Columbidae, Tyrannidae, Icteridae and Fringillidae, and it is the only place in Central America where Momotus mexicanus lives.
Columbidae | columbidae |
The Bolle's Pigeon (Columba bollii) is a species of Columba genus of the family Columbidae, of doves and pigeons, which is endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain.
The Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus porphyraceus), also known as the Purple-capped Fruit Dove (leading to easy confusion with the Beautiful Fruit Dove, alternatively known as the Crimson-capped Fruit Dove), is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.
Trained Harris's hawks have been used to remove an unwanted pigeon population from London's Trafalgar Square.
In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had rediscovered in the royal Danish collection of Copenhagen.