Ecuadorian Ground Dove (Columbina buckleyi)

Identification & Behavior: ~17.2 cm (7 in). The male Ecuadorian Ground-Dove is bluish gray. The female is grayish-brown. The bill is dusky gray. The tail is black. The primary flight feathers are dusky. The underwing coverts are gray. It is very similar to the slightly smaller Plain-breasted Ground-Dove but is distinguished by larger size, dusky wings, gray underwing coverts, and black tail without white terminal margins. Also see, Croaking Ground-Dove.

Status: The Ecuadorian Ground-Dove is common in semi-open habitats in the Marañon drainage and the semi-deciduous forest and scrub in extreme northwest Peru. It also occurs in Ec.

Name in Spanish: Tortolita Ecuatoriana.

Sub-species: Ecuadorian Ground Dove (Columbina buckleyi buckleyi), P. L. Sclater and Salvin 1877.
(Columbina buckleyi dorsti), Koepcke 1962.

Meaning of Name: Columbina: L. referring to a small version of the family Columbidae. buckleyii: In honor of Charles Buckley, entomologist and collector in Bolivia, 1874, and Ecuador, 1878.

See more of the Family Columbidae