Blue-spotted Wood-Dove (Turtur afer)

Other Names (World)
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove, Red-billed Wood-dove, Sapphire-spotted Wood-dove, Metallic-spotted Wood-dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Senegambia through most of western and central Africa to Ethiopia and Eritrea, and south through Zaire to southern Angola, south-central Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and extreme eastern South Africa. Said to occur on Bioko (Fernando Póo), but this is now considered unlikely.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (43)...)

Blue-spotted Wood Dove (Turtur afer) [XC401855]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Oke-Eri\/Ogbogbo, Ijebu ode, Ogun State, Nigeria (song)

Blue-spotted Wood Dove (Turtur afer) [XC319075]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Nsele, Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Republic) (song)

Subspecies
Related to Black-billed Wood-Dove (Turtur abyssinicus), and often occurs sympatrically with either Black-billed Wood-Dove (Turtur abyssinicus) or Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove (Turtur chalcospilos). Birds of highlands of Ethiopia formerly awarded subspecies mearnsi, and those of Mt Kilimanjaro zone subspecies kilimensis, but neither nowadays considered valid.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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