inca dove

Inca Dove, warming in the morning sun

These guys have been living here for the last two years and it wasn't until recently I realized they were kind of rare and kind of right on the boarder or just outside of the boarder of their mapped range.

from my visit to Sabal Palm Sanctuary. Then I hopped in the car. Didn't do too well at my next stop, so I'll move on to the next day.

Inca Dove (Columbina inca) Sexes similar. Sunbathing. Goose Island State Park, Rockport, Aransas County, Texas, USA. Coastal live oak/yaupon woods with openings of coastal prairie at ca. 1 m (3.3 ft) elevation. The park abuts St. Charles and Aransas Bays.

A distant shot, severely cropped.

Inca Dove (Columbina inca) Sexes similar. Zamora Estates, San Jose Province, Costa Rica. Grape orchard in an urban setting at 901 m (2,956 ft) elevation.

Not a very good photo, but it captures my first Inca Doves (lifer #311), as they feed on seed near the feeders at Santa Ana NWR, along with an Eastern Fox Squirrel.

Inca Dove (Columbina inca) Male, sexes slightly dimorphic. Scaly pattern on males more pronounced due to darker leading edges of feathers. Photographed at Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Disturbed Rio Grande riparian at ca. 571 m (1,872 ft) elevation.

Inca Dove (Columbina inca) Sexes similar but female slightly drabber than the male. Males in breeding plumage gets varying degree of blue on the head sort of like Mourning Doves. Photographed in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA. Northern most part of the South Texas Plains Vegetational...

Inca Dove (Columbina inca) Photographed this small long-tailed dove in Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Dry Tropical Forest at ca. 61 m (200 ft) above the bay.

This Inca Dove started coming to my feeders about 10 days ago. It's the first Inca Dove I've seen in my area since five years ago when I had five or six of them coming to the feeders during the winter months.

I had a very rare day on July 15, 2006, when three of the more unusual doves visited our site on this same day, so I am submitting pictures of all three.

It looks like he put a protectiv wing around his wife.

A very sweet little dove.