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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).
One of these was the blue-spotted wood dove which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba afra and cited Brisson's work. [4] The specific name afer is the Latin word for "Africa". [5]
The common ground dove (Columbina passerina) is a small bird that inhabits the southern United States, parts of Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. It is considered to be the smallest dove that inhabits the United States.
The spotted dove was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba chinensis. [2] Scopoli based his account on "La tourterelle gris de la Chine" that had been described and illustrated in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in the second volume of his book Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine. [3]
The blue-headed wood dove (Turtur brehmeri), also known as the blue-headed dove, is a medium-sized (up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long), rufous brown wood-dove with bluish-grey head, iridescent green patches on wings, reddish bill, dark brown iris, and dark red feet. Both sexes are similar. The young is duller in colour than adult.
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 Ruddy ground dove: Columbina talpacoti ...
The blue-headed quail dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala), or blue-headed partridge-dove, is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae that is endemic to the island of Cuba. It is monotypic within the subfamily Starnoenadinae and genus Starnoenas .
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