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 LC    Common Ground-dove* Id (Atlas):
    Columbina passerina

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Common Ground-Dove, Scaly-breasted Ground-dove, Scaled Ground-dove, Speckled Ground-dove, Rosy Ground-dove, Sparrow Dove, Passerine Dove, Tobacco Dove, Common Ground Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
15.50 - 18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,900 m.

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Canada.

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

Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (70)...)

 
Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina) [XC532178]
     by Jerome Fischer from Mana Dulce, Cundinamarca, Colombia (song)

 
Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina) [XC270175]
     by Guillermo Funes from San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (song)

Subspecies
Closely related to Plain-breasted Ground-dove (Columbina minuta).

The following 19 subspecies are recognised:

  • passerina (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  South Carolina along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to south-eastern Texas.
  • pallescens (Baird, SF, 1860)   -  Colorado Delta and Baja California east through southern Arizona to southern Texas, and south through Mexico to Belize and Guatemala.
  • socorroensis (Ridgway, 1887)   -  Socorro I in Revillagigedo Archipelago (off western Mexico).
  • neglecta (Carriker, 1910)   -  Honduras to Costa Rica and Panama.
  • bahamensis (Maynard, 1887)   -  Bermuda and Bahamas (except Inagua Is).
  • exigua (Riley, 1905)   -  Great Inagua I (southern Bahamas) and Mona I (between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola).
  • insularis (Ridgway, 1888)   -  Cuba, I of Pines, Cayman Is (Grand, Little, Brac), Hispaniola and adjacent islands.
  • jamaicensis (Maynard, 1899)   -  Jamaica.
  • navassae (Wetmore, 1930)   -  Navassa I (off south-western Hipaniola).
  • portoricensis (Lowe, 1908)   -  Puerto Rico, Culebras, Vieques and Virgin Is (except St Croix).
  • nigrirostris (Danforth, 1935)   -  St Croix and northern Lesser Antilles.
  • trochila (Bonaparte, 1855)   -  Martinique.
  • antillarum (Lowe, 1908)   -  Southern Lesser Antilles from St Lucia and Barbados south to Grenada.
  • albivitta (Bonaparte, 1855)   -  Coastal northern Colombia and Venezuela south to Orinoco Valley, with offshore islands from Aruba to Los Testigos, Margarita I and Trinidad.
  • parvula (Todd, 1913)   -  Central Colombia in upper Magdalena Valley.
  • nana (Todd, 1913)   -  Western Colombia in Cauca Valley and arid upper Dagua Valley.
  • quitensis (Todd, 1913)   -  Central Ecuador from R Guaillabamba south to Riobamba.
  • griseola von Spix, 1825   -  Extreme southern Venezuela, the Guianas and Amazonia from R Negro and R Madeira east to coastal Brazil (south to Bahia).
  • umbrina Buden, 1985   -  Ile de la Tortue (off north-western Hispaniola).



References
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Files:
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