White-faced Quail-Dove (Zentrygon albifacies)

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
30 - 31 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater, 1858)

Habitat
Undergrowth of dense cloud forest or overgrown mountain coffee plantations. From 1,000 - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua.

Locally in mountains of Mexico (south-eastern San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo and central Veracruz to Guerrero, northern and south-central Oaxaca and northern and southern Chiapas) to central Guatemala, western El Salvador, north-western Honduras and north-western Nicaragua.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

White-faced Quail-Dove (Zentrygon albifacies) [XC334775]
by Richard E. Webster from Campamento El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico (song)

White-faced Quail-Dove (Zentrygon albifacies) [XC274885]
by Richard E. Webster from Sierra de Miahuatl\u00e1n--La Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico (song)

Subspecies
Like most of congeners, formerly placed in genus Oreopeleia. Sometimes considered conspecific with Lined Quail-Dove (Zentrygon linearis), and the two may form a superspecies.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-faced Quail-Dove (Zentrygon albifacies) - 10 files

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