Picui Ground Dove (Columbina picui) [XC451890]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from S\u00edtio Pau Preto, Potengi-CE, Cear\u00e1, Brazil (song)
Picui Ground Dove (Columbina picui) [XC116023]
by Peter Boesman from Olmu\u00e9, Quinta Regi\u00f3n, Chile (call)
Subspecies
Plumage pattern similar to Croaking Ground-Dove (Columbina cruziana), which is probably its closest relative.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
strepitans von Spix, 1825 - North-eastern Brazil in Maranhío, Piauí, Ceará and Bahia.
picui (Temminck, 1813) - Bolivia, Paraguay and southern Brazil south to Uruguay, southern Argentina (Chubut) and central Chile. Winters north to eastern Peru.