Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Streptopelia > Streptopelia tranquebarica

Streptopelia tranquebarica (Red Turtle Dove)

Synonyms: Columba tranquebarica (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The red turtle dove (Streptopelia tranquebarica), also known as the red collared dove, is a small pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in the tropics in the Indian subcontinent.
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Infraspecies

Streptopelia tranquebarica humilis (Red-collared dove)
Streptopelia tranquebarica tranquebarica (Red-collared dove)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.69301
EDGE Score: 2.16252
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  89 grams
Female Weight [1]  75 grams
Male Weight [1]  104 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  38.7 %
Diet [2]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No
Philippines Philippines No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Predators

Accipiter trivirgatus (Crested Goshawk)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cotugnia meggitti[5]
Killigrewia delafondi[5]
Rostelugnia johrii <Unverified Name>[5]
Sobolevicanthus serratus <Unverified Name>[5]
Sphenacanthus serrata <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0