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Patagioenas caribaea

Photo by Jan Van den Broeck
Location: Barbecue Bottom - Jamaica.

[edit] Identification

41 cm. Blue-grey above, head and underparts pink-brown with blue-green hindneck, black band across uppertail. Red eye and eye-ring. Female duller. Immature, brown-grey with reddish fringes on upperwing, and red-orange head and underparts.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Jamaica.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species. Ring-tailed Pigeon has previously been placed in genus Columba.

[edit] Habitat

Forests in hills and mountains.

[edit] Behaviour

Fourages in the canopy for fruit and seeds.

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