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Common Ground Dove

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Subspecies insularis
Photo by jdbirdman
Cuba, 2003

Columbina passerina

1 Identification
- 1.1 Flight
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
- 3.1 Subspecies
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
- 5.1 Breeding
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Identification

L. 17cm
Wt. 32g (1oz)

Tiny
Short-tailed
Grey-brown back and upperwings
Black spotting on wing coverts
Scaly appearance on breast and head
Centrally brown tail with black edges and white corners
Orange bill tipped black

Female
Photo by bobsofpa
Fort DeSoto Park, Florida, USA, April 2008

Male

Pink head, neck and breast
Pink, unscaled belly
Blue nape

Female & Immature

Light grey where male is pink
Grey nape

[edit] Flight

In flight, the underwings show extensive chestnut colouration. Flight is fast and direct, with regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings that are characteristic of pigeons in general.

[edit] Distribution

It is a resident breeder from Bermuda, through the southmost USA, Mexico and the Caribbean, to South America, and is found as far south as northern Brazil.

Subspecies nigrirostris
Photo by njlarsen
Dominica, August 2004

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 18 subspecies^[1]

C. p. passerina : Coastal south-eastern US (South Carolina to Florida and south-eastern Texas)
C. p. pallescens: Arid south-western US to Guatemala and Belize
C. p. socorroensis: Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands off western Mexico)
C. p. neglecta: Honduras to Costa Rica and Panama
C. p. bahamensis: Bermuda and Bahamas (except Inagua Island)
C. p. exigua: Great Inagua Island (southern Bahamas) and Mona Island (Puerto Rico)
C. p. insularis: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Cayman Islands, Hispaniola and adjacent islands
C. p. jamaicensis: Jamaica
C. p. navassae: Navassa Island (off south-western Hispaniola)
C. p. portoricensis: Puerto Rico, Mona, Culebra and [[Virgin Islands (except St. Croix)
C. p. nigrirostris: St. Croix and northern Lesser Antilles
C. p. trochila: Martinique (Lesser Antilles)
C. p. antillarum: Southern Lesser Antilles (St. Lucia and Barbados to Grenada)
C. p. albivitta: Northern Colombia, northern Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad
C. p. parvula: Central Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley)
C. p. nana: Western Colombia (Cauca Valley and arid upper Dagua Valley)
C. p. quitensis: Central Ecuador (RÃo Guaillabamba to Riobamba)
C. p. griseola: Extreme southern Venezuela to the Guianas and eastern Brazil

Male and Female, subspecies jamaicensis
Photo by Stanley Jones
Montego Bay, Cornwall State, St. James Parish, Jamaica, November 2010

[edit] Habitat

Dry sandy scrub, fields, forest edge, woodland with developed open areas, farms, open country and towns.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It builds a flimsy stick nest in a tree and lays two white eggs.

[edit] References

Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view