Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Geotrygon > Geotrygon canicepsGeotrygon caniceps (Grey-fronted Quail-Dove; Gray-fronted Quail-Dove)Synonyms: Columba caniceps The grey-fronted quail-dove (Geotrygon caniceps), is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is found on the island of Cuba.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was previously considered a subspecies of the grey-headed quail-dove, which is now split into the grey-fronted quail-dove (Geotrygon caniceps), endemic to Cuba, and the white-fronted quail-dove (Geotrygon leucometopia) endemic to Hispaniola. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.84459 EDGE Score: 3.67322 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 192 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 1 | | Incubation [3] | 13 days |
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IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Eastern Bahoruco |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Gibara |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gran Piedra: Pico Mogote |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Río Máximo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Sierra del Rosario |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Turquino-Bayamesa |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz 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 |
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
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