White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi) [XC843642]
by Richard E. Webster from Victoria, Entre R\u00edos, Argentina (song)
White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi) [XC387419]
by Franco Vushurovich from Quebrada Valencia, Guachaca river, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Probably forms superspecies with Yungas Dove (Leptotila megalura). Subspecies brasiliensis sometimes considered a separate species (incorporating approximans, decipiens and chalcauchenia) on basis of supposed difference in colour of orbital skin, but these differences are not consistently maintained. Subspecies riottei doubtfully distinct from verreauxi; subspecies chalcauchenia sometimes listed as chlorauchenia, but former has priority by approximately one month.
The following 15 subspecies are recognised:
capitalis Nelson, 1898 - Tres Marías Is, off central-western Mexico.
angelica Bangs & Penard, TE, 1922 - Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas (USA), and Mexico from southern Sonora and Chihuahua, southern on both coasts to at least Guerrero and northern Veracruz.
fulviventris Lawrence, 1882 - South-eastern Mexico, including Yucatán Peninsula, south to north-eastern Guatemala and Belize.
bangsi Dickey & van Rossem, 1926 - Pacific slope of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, extending into western Honduras.
nuttingi Ridgway, 1915 - L Nicaragua, occurring on western shore and on Ometepe I.
riottei Lawrence, 1868 - Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.
verreauxi Bonaparte, 1855 - Extreme south-western Nicaragua through western Costa Rica and Panama to northern Colombia (Magdalena Valley) and northern Venezuela, with offshore islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, and Margarita.
zapluta J. L. Peters, 1937 - Trinidad.
tobagensis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1915 - Tobago.
decolor Salvin, 1895 - Western subtropical zone in Colombia south through western and central Ecuador to western and northern Peru (Trujillo and Marañón Valley).
brasiliensis (Bonaparte, 1856) - The Guianas and northern Brazil, south to northern bank of lower Amazon, west to R Solimões.
approximans Cory, 1917 - North-eastern Brazil from Piauí and Ceará to northern Bahia.
decipiens (Salvadori, 1871) - Eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia across central Brazil (south of Amazon through Mato Grosso to Sío Paulo).
chalcauchenia Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1870 - Extreme southern Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil (Paraná) and Uruguay to north-central Argentina (Tucumán, Córdoba, Buenos Aires).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet