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 LC    Blue-headed Wood-Dove* Id (Atlas):
    Turtur brehmeri

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blue-headed Wood-Dove, Blue-headed Dove, Maiden Dove, Blue-headed Wood Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1865)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 750 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

 
Blue-headed Wood Dove (Turtur brehmeri) [XC99043]
     by Rolf A. de By from Campo Ma'an Reserve, Cameroon (song)

 
Blue-headed Wood Dove (Turtur brehmeri) [XC126573]
     by Sander Bot from Kakum National Park, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • infelix Peters, JL, 1937   -  Coastal Guinea and Sierra Leone east to coastal Cameroon, extending inland along rivers as much as 130 km.
  • brehmeri (Hartlaub, 1865)   -  Southern Cameroon east through northern Congo to Rift Valley in eastern Zaire, and south to extreme north-western Angola.



References
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Files:
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