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Leptotila rufaxilla (Grey-fronted Dove)

Synonyms: Columba spec
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey-fronted dove, (Leptotila rufaxilla) is a large New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder in South America from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guyanas south to northeast Argentina and Uruguay. Several subspecies exist, among them L. r. hellmayrii from Trinidad and the Paria Peninsula in Venezuela. The grey-headed dove, Leptotila plumbeiceps, of Central America and the Grenada dove, L. wellsi, of Grenada were formerly considered conspecific with grey-fronted dove.
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Infraspecies

Leptotila rufaxilla bahiae (Grey-fronted dove)
Leptotila rufaxilla dubusi (Grey-fronted dove)
Leptotila rufaxilla hellmayri (Grey-fronted dove)
Leptotila rufaxilla pallidipectus (Grey-fronted dove)
Leptotila rufaxilla reichenbachii (Grey-fronted dove)
Leptotila rufaxilla rufaxilla (Grey-fronted dove)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.47404
EDGE Score: 2.01144
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  146 grams
Female Weight [1]  139 grams
Male Weight [1]  153 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  10.1 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  1

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

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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
♦ 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
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