Black-billed Wood-Dove (Turtur abyssinicus)

Other Names (World)
Black-billed Wood-Dove, Abyssinian Blue Spotted Wood-dove, Black-billed Blue Spotted Wood-dove, Black-billed Wood Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1902)

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti (B), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Southern Mauritania and Senegambia to Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, and east through northern Cameroon, northern Central African Republic to Eritrea, Ethiopia, northern Uganda and extreme north-western Kenya.

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 (26)...)

Black-billed Wood Dove (Turtur abyssinicus) [XC125461]
by selvino from For\u00eat de B\u00e4ngr-Weoogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (song)

Black-billed Wood Dove (Turtur abyssinicus) [XC523686]
by Giovanni Boano from Bolola, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove (Turtur chalcospilos), with which has been considered conspecific.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-billed Wood-Dove (Turtur abyssinicus) - 10 files

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