Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Columbiformes > Columbidae > Geotrygon > Geotrygon mystaceaGeotrygon mystacea (Bridled Quail-Dove)Synonyms: Columba mystacea The bridled quail-dove (Geotrygon mystacea) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.It is found in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.54875 EDGE Score: 2.25641 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 211 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Caribbean shrublands |
France, United Kingdom, Dominica, St. Lucia, Netherlands |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Leeward Islands moist forests |
St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lesser Antillean dry forests |
Grenada, St. Lucia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Puerto Rican dry forests |
United States |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Puerto Rican moist forests |
United States |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Windward Islands moist forests |
Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Centre Hills |
Montserrat (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Christian Valley |
Antigua and Barbuda |
A1, A2 |
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Forestry massif of Basse-Terre island |
Guadeloupe (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Forêts du Nord et de la Montagne Pelée |
Martinique (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Government Forest Reserve |
St Lucia |
A1, A2 |
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Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin's eastern coastline |
Guadeloupe (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Great Tobago |
Virgin Islands (to UK) |
A2, A4ii, B4i |
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Mandele Dry Forest |
St Lucia |
A1, A2, B4i |
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Northern Forested Ghauts |
Montserrat (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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Pic Paradis |
St Martin (to France) |
A2 |
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Pitons du Carbet |
Martinique (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Presqu'île de la Caravelle |
Martinique (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Saba |
Netherlands Antilles |
A2, A4ii, B4ii |
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South Soufriere Hills |
Montserrat (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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St John |
Virgin Islands (to USA) |
A2, B4i |
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St. Kitts Central Forest Reserve |
St Kitts and Nevis |
A2 |
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The Quill, Sint Eustatius |
Netherlands Antilles |
A2 |
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Vieques |
Puerto Rico (to USA) |
A2, B4i |
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Wallings Forest |
Antigua and Barbuda |
A1, A2 |
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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 ♦ 1Arendt, W.J.; Faaborg, J.; Wallace, G.E.; Garrido, O.H. 2004. Biometrics of
birds throughout the Greater Caribbean basin. Proceedings of the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. 8(1): 1-33. ♦ 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 |
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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