Plain-breasted Ground-Dove (Columbina minuta)

Other Names (World)
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove, Plain Ground-dove, Grey Ground-dove, Gray Ground-dove, Little Ground-dove, Pygmy Dove, Plain-breasted Ground Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
14 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 1,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 5,000,000 - 50,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (Columbina minuta) [XC693438]
by Peter Boesman from Sabanitas, Inirida, Guainia, Colombia (song)

Plain-breasted Ground Dove (Columbina minuta) [XC744420]
by Guilherme Melo from Jaboticabal, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Formerly placed in genus Columbigallina. Closely related to Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina), the two overlap in range in some areas. Subspecies amazilia doubtfully distinct from nominate.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

interrupta (Griscom, 1929) - Southern Mexico (southern Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Guerrero and locally Jalisco), southern Guatemala and Belize to Nicaragua.
elaeodes (Todd, 1913) - Costa Rica south through eastern Panama and Canal Zone to west-central Colombia.
minuta (Linnaeus, 1766) - Venezuela east to Trinidad and the Guianas, and south through eastern Colombia to Peru (Urubamba Valley), eastern and central Brazil and Bolivia, and on to south-central Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).
amazilia (Bonaparte, 1855) - Arid coastal regions of south-western Ecuador and Peru (Lima to Libertad).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plain-breasted Ground-Dove (Columbina minuta) - 10 files

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