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Leptotila verreauxi (White-tipped Dove)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The white-tipped dove (Leptotila verreauxi) is a large New World tropical dove. Its scientific name commemorates the French naturalists Jules and Edouard Verreaux.
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Infraspecies

Leptotila verreauxi angelica (White-tipped dove)
Leptotila verreauxi approximans
Leptotila verreauxi bangsi
Leptotila verreauxi brasiliensis
Leptotila verreauxi capitalis
Leptotila verreauxi chalcauchenia
Leptotila verreauxi decipiens
Leptotila verreauxi decolor
Leptotila verreauxi fulviventris
Leptotila verreauxi hernandezi
Leptotila verreauxi nuttingi
Leptotila verreauxi riottei
Leptotila verreauxi tobagensis (White-tipped Dove) (Attributes)
Leptotila verreauxi verreauxi (White-tipped dove)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.36401
EDGE Score: 2.33834
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  124 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  60 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [1]  16 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  20,000,000
Incubation [4]  14 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  9 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Celtis ehrenbergiana (desert hackberry (spiny))[6]
Ehretia anacua (knockaway)[7]
Prosopis glandulosa (Texas mesquite)[6]
Rivina humilis (rougeplant)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Psarocolius montezuma (Montezuma Oropendola)1
Tyrannus couchii (Couch's Kingbird)1

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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