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 LC    Ring-necked Dove* Id (Atlas):
    Streptopelia capicola

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Ring-necked Dove, Cape Turtle-dove, Cape Ring-dove, Dark-eyed Ring-dove, Damara Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sundevall, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Introduced to Comoros.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (209)...)

 
Ring-necked Dove (Streptopelia capicola) [XC392719]
     by Frank Lambert from South of Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa (song)

 
Ring-necked Dove (Streptopelia capicola) [XC267217]
     by Andrew Spencer from Yabello - Mega Road, 26 km south of Yabello, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Vinaceous Dove (Streptopelia vinacea).

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • electa (Madarász, 1913)   -  Western Ethiopia.
  • somalica (Erlanger, 1905)   -  Eastern Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya south to Uaso Nyiro R.
  • tropica (Reichenow, 1902)   -  Central Kenya to Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
  • onguati Macdonald, 1957   -  South-western Angola and northern Namibia.
  • damarensis (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)   -  Namibia, Botswana and south-western Zimbabwe.
  • capicola (Sundevall, 1857)   -  Western Cape Province, South Africa.



References
See References.


Files:
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