Mourning Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decipiens)

Other Names (World)
Mourning Collared-Dove, Mourning Dove, African Mourning Dove, Mourning Collared Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, dry savanna, rural gardens, pasturelands, arable land. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (54)...)

Mourning Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) [XC832723]
by Alain Malengreau from Kilalinda, Tsavo, Makueni County, Kenya (song)

Mourning Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) [XC663373]
by Antonio Xeira from Langue de Barbarie NP, Saint-Louis, Senegal (call)

Subspecies
Closely related to Red-eyed Dove (Streptopelia semitorquata). Also related to Eurasian Collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto) and African Collared-Dove (Streptopelia roseogrisea). Includes Streptopelia fulvopectoralis, known from a single juvenile specimen.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

shelleyi (Salvadori, 1893) - Mauritania and Senegambia to southern Niger and central Nigeria.
logonensis (Reichenow, 1921) - L Chad east to southern Sudan, north-eastern and eastern Zaire and western and northern Uganda.
decipiens (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870) - Sudan (Darfur), northern and central Ethiopia and north-western Somalia.
elegans (Zedlitz, 1913) - Southern Ethiopia, southern Somalia and northern and eastern Kenya.
perspicillata (Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884) - Western Kenya and central Tanzania.
ambigua (Barboza du Bocage, 1881) - Eastern Angola, south-eastern Zaire, Zambia and Malawi to R Zambezi and R Limpopo and adjacent lowlands.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Mourning Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) - 10 files

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