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Curacao, N.A., Near Santa Marta Bay, November 2007

Patagioenas corensis

[edit] Identification

30-37cm

• Pink head, neck and breast
• Bluish grey crown
• Creamy white chin, ventral area and undertail coverts
• Blue-grey hindneck and side neck, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts
• Central tail feathers brownish grey
• White tipped outer tail feathers
• Yellowish orange or orange brown iris
• Inner area by eye is bluish grey or pale blue; outer area with age darkens to brown or reddish brown
  

Juvenile: Similar but paler

[edit] Distribution

Colombia and Venezuela including islands and the Dutch Antilles islands Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1]. It has previously been placed in genus Columba.

[edit] Habitat

Dry shrubland.

[edit] Behaviour

They spend as much time on the ground as they do in trees.

[edit] Flight

Strong fliers, also over sea.

[edit] Breeding

The single egg is incubated for 17 days, the young fledging in 14 days.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. International Dove Society
3. Wikipedia
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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