Order: Columbiformes | Family: Columbidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Santa Eulalia, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Puno, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Santa Eulalia, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Northwest Peru
Status: The Bare-face Ground-Dove is common in open and scrub habitats and in the west slope of the Andes and inter-Andean valleys at elevations ranging between 1700-400oq m. It occurs at lower elevation is southwest Peru. It also occurs in Bo and Ch.
Name in Spanish: Tortolita Moteada.
Sub-species: Bare-faced Ground-Dove (Metriopelia ceciliae ceciliae), Lesson 1845. W Peru.
(M. c. obsoleta), J. T. Zimmer 1924. E Peruvian Andes in upper Marañón Valley and its tributaries in N Peru (S to La Raya).
(M. c. zimmeri), J. L. Peters 1937. Extreme S Peru through Bolivia.
Meaning of Name: Metriopelia: Gr. Metrios= temperature, moderate and Peleia= a dove. ceciliae: in honor of Cecile Gautrau, daughter of French Naturalist Rene Primavre.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.