ID help - Costa Rica (1 Viewer)

[rezMole]

Help with this pigeon please.

 

[THE_FERN]

Perhaps immature (female) blue ground dove: dark wing feathers, eye ring, brown coverts/mantle.

 

[Maffong]

Wing spotting is usually brown in female and immature Blue Ground-Dovesand birds browner overall.
Why isn't this simply an immature (or female) Ruddy Ground-Dove, which is also more common by several magnitudes and fits perfectly colouration-wise.

 

[THE_FERN]

Wing spotting is usually brown in female and immature Blue Ground-Dovesand birds browner overall.
Why isn't this simply an immature (or female) Ruddy Ground-Dove, which is also more common by several magnitudes and fits perfectly colouration-wise.

Perhaps it is but primaries are clearly very dark. I thought only blue would show this much contrast

Edit: also such a marked eye ring I thought.

 

[njlarsen]

Firstly, where in CR?
Secondly, any other images, angles?

 

[rezMole]

Firstly, where in CR?
Secondly, any other images, angles?

No other images. I think we were in the La Salva Botanical Station area, but can't be sure.

 

[njlarsen]

In La Selva, per ebird, plain-breasted is a third species that needs to be considered: https://ebird.org/barchart?r=L436195&yr=all&m=
Looking at images I think Ruddy is a better fit.
Niels

 

[rezMole]

In La Selva, per ebird, plain-breasted is a third species that needs to be considered: https://ebird.org/barchart?r=L436195&yr=all&m=
Looking at images I think Ruddy is a better fit.
Niels

None of our group had Plain-breasted Ground Dove on our lists whilst at this location. Not sure anyone had noted Blue Ground Dove on that day either, so Ruddy would make more sense. Thanks

 

[AveryBartels]

Ruddy Ground-dove, Black-marks on wing rule our female Blue