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Photo taken: Pierce County, Washington, USA

Patagioenas fasciata

[edit] Identification

34 to 36 cm

• Grey overall
• Darker above
• Faintly pink head and underparts
• White belly
• Yellow bill and feet
• Green iridescence on the back of the neck
• Thin white collar on the nape
  

Juveniles: have a scaly appearance, due to white feather edges on the upperparts.

[edit] Distribution

Breeds along the pacific coast north to southern British Columbia, also southern Utah, western Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and most of Mexico.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 7 subspecies:

• P. f. fasciata:

• Westeern North America from south-western Canada to Nicaragua

• P. f. letonai:

• Honduras and El Salvador (including Volcán de San Miguel)

• P. f. parva:

• Northern Nicaragua

• P. f. vioscae:

• Mountains of extreme southern Baja California (Sierra de la Laguna)

• P. f. crissalis:

• Costa Rica and western Panama

• P. f. roraimae:

• Tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Roraima)

• P. f. albilinea:

• Colombia to Venezuela, north-western Brazil, eastern Bolivia and northern Argentina

An 8th subspecies, P. f. monilis^[2], is not recognised by all authorities

[edit] Habitat

Oak, pine-oak, and coniferous forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

One or two eggs are laid in a twiggy platform nest.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes seeds, notably acorns.

[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. Wikipedia

• List of references

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