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Blue ground doves are small pigeons, 20 cm long with a weight of 65–72 g. Adult males have blue-grey upperparts and paler grey underparts, becoming grey-white on the face. The flight feathers and outer tail feathers are blackish, and the wings are boldly spotted black (these spots often forming distinct bands).
White-tipped dove: Leptotila verreauxi: Gray-fronted dove: Leptotila rufaxilla: Trinidad only Lined quail-dove: Zentrygon linearis: Trinidad only Eared dove: Zenaida auriculata: Blue ground dove: Claravis pretiosa: Trinidad only Common ground dove: Columbina passerina: Trinidad only Plain-breasted ground dove: Columbina minuta: Trinidad only ...
The blue-eyed ground dove is 15.5 cm (6.1 in) long. The male's head, neck, wing coverts, uppertail coverts, and breast are purplish red. Its lower breast, belly, flanks, shoulders, and back are browner. Its vent and undertail coverts are white. The closed wing shows dark brown and chestnut with iridescent blue spots.
Hummingbirds are small birds capable of hovering in mid-air due to the rapid flapping of their wings. They are the only birds that can fly backwards. Mexican violetear, Colibri thalassinus (A) Rivoli's hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens (A) Blue-throated mountain-gem, Lampornis clemenciae (H) (A) Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris
[citation needed] In the class Aves (birds), there is only one family, Trochilidae (hummingbirds) [1] where the backward flying phenomenon can be found. In the class Insecta (insects), in the infraorder Anisoptera (dragonflies), [ 1 ] genus Hemaris (bee hawk-moths) [ a ] [ 2 ] and order Diptera (true flies), species with this ability can be ...
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere. Six species have been recorded in Ohio. Rock pigeon, Columba livia (I)(B) Passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius (E) Eurasian collared-dove, Streptopelia decaocto (I)(B) Common ground dove, Columbina passerina (R) White-winged dove, Zenaida ...
The West Peruvian dove or Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda) is a species of dove in the genus Zenaida. [2] ... Its eyes have violet-blue rings. [4] Distribution and habitat
The species is now placed with other New World ground-doves in the genus Columbina that was introduced in 1825, by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix. [5] There are nine species in this genus including the Inca dove (Columbina inca) and the scaled dove (Columbina squammata). [6] There are 17 recognised subspecies: [7] [6]