Plain-breasted Ground Dove - BirdForum Opus

Columbina minuta

Photo by erikat
Location: AdeK University guesthouse, Uitvlucht (Paramaribo), Suriname

Identification

Differs from Common Ground-Dove in lacking scaling on breast and throat, and male has a pink wash on breast.

Distribution

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela. In Brazil avoids the central Amazon basin.

Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized, minuta, amazilia, elaeodes, and interrupta.

Habitat

Dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Behaviour

Feeds on the ground, uses powerlines etc for resting.

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. Ber van Perlo. 2009. A field guide to the Birds of Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530155-7
3. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156

External Links

Search for photos of Plain-breasted Ground Dove in the gallery

Use common name to search the gallery:

Search for photos of Plain-breasted Ground Dove in the gallery

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.