Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis)

Other Scientific Names
Columba cayennensis [BirdLife International (2004)], Columba cayennensis [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Columba cayennensis [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Pale-vented Pigeon, Rufous Pigeon, Blue Pigeon, Cayenne Pigeon, Purple-tinted Pigeon

Family
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves)

Size
25 - 26.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonnaterre, 1792

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 800 m, occasionally to 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), 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 (42)...)

Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) [XC257597]
by John V. Moore from Sucumb\u00edos: 'Sacha Lodge', n bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (call, song, calls)

Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) [XC389356]
by Lari Boesing from Puerto Libertador, C\u00f3rdoba, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Has no obvious close relatives. It has been proposed that it may be intermediate in some respects between the Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) and Red-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas flavirostris) superspecies. Formerly listed as Columba rufina.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

pallidicrissa (Chubb, C, 1910) - Southern Mexico (Chiapas and Veracruz) south to northern Colombia.
andersoni (Cory, 1915) - South-eastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador eastern across Venezuela and Brazil north of Amazon to Pará.
tobagensis (Cory, 1915) - Trinidad and Tobago.
cayennensis Bonnaterre, 1792 - Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana.
sylvestris (Vieillot, 1818) - Eastern Peru and Brazil south of Amazon to Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay.
occidentalis (Stolzmann, 1926) - Western Colombia, western Ecuador.
tamboensis (Conover, 1938) - West-central Colombia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) - 10 files

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