Grey-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla)

Other Names (World)
Grey-fronted Dove, Gray-fronted Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
27 - 28 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Richard & Bernard, 1792)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

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

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (121)...)

Grey-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) [XC514683]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Ecol\u00f3gica de Murici, Murici, Alagoas, Brazil (song)

Grey-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) [XC436077]
by Will Sweet from RPPN Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Veracel, Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Brown-backed Dove (Leptotila battyi) has been widely treated as a separate species from either Grey-headed Dove (Leptotila plumbeiceps) or Grey-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) on the basis of its distinct call and very slight plumage differences (Wetmore 1968, Ridgely and Gwynne 1989, Baptista et al. 1997, Dickinson 2003). Although Stiles and Skutch (1989) and Gibbs et al. (2001) suggest little or no difference between the voices of plumbeiceps and battyi, we provisionally accept battyi as a species pending further work determining the relationships of these taxa, rufaxilla and pallida.

May form superspecies with Pallid Dove (Leptotila pallida) and Grey-headed Dove (Leptotila plumbeiceps), and possibly also with Brown-backed Dove (Leptotila battyi) and Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi), and all five have been considered conspecific. Also related to White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi).

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

pallidipectus Chapman, 1915 - Eastern Colombia (south to R Guaviare) and probably western Venezuela.
dubusi Bonaparte, 1855 - South-eastern Colombia to central-southern Venezuela (base of Mt Duida) and south to eastern Ecuador and (probably this race) eastern Peru; limits of range in Brazil unknown.
rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard, 1792) - Lower Orinoco Valley in eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil, south to R Madeira and east to northern Maranh�o.
hellmayri Chapman, 1915 - North-eastern Venezuela (Paria Peninsula) and Trinidad.
bahiae von Berlepsch, 1885 - Central Brazil, from southern Mato Grosso to Bahia.
reichenbachii Pelzeln, 1870 - Central and southern Brazil (from Mato Grosso and Espírito Santo) south to Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina (Misiones) and Uruguay.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Grey-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) - 10 files

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