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Patagioenas picazuro

Photo by Gary Clark
Location: Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[edit] Identification

Overall purplish-brown plumage with dashes on the back of its neck and darker wing patterns. Red feet.

[edit] Similar Species

• Spotted Dove.

[edit] Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

[edit] Taxonomy

Two subspecies are recognized, picazuro and marginalis. This species has previously been placed in genus Columba.

[edit] Habitat

Woodland and forest to agricultural land.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes seeds and grain; they are ground feeders.

They build a nest from sticks and one egg is laid. Both parents incubate the egg. Once the egg has hatched, the chick is fed on crop milk and then regurgitated seeds.

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