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Photo by Rodrigo Reyes
Viña del Mar, central Chile, August 2008

Patagioenas araucana

Columba araucana

[edit] Identification

38cm

• Wine-coloured body
• Grey wings
• Iridescent greenish neck patch
• Thin white band at back of neck
• Red iris and legs
• Blackish-grey bill

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in central and southern Chile and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

This species has previously been placed in genus Columba.

[edit] Habitat

Southern beech forest and rain forest.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a platform nest from sticks and 1 white egg is laid.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Arthur Grosset
3. avesdechile

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