Maroon-chested Ground Dove (Paraclaravis mondetoura) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestPlatform nestMedium · 90 g

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (Paraclaravis mondetoura), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (Paraclaravis mondetoura), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Juniper Meredyk, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (Paraclaravis mondetoura), photo 4 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

What the Maroon-chested Ground Dove sounds like

Sonogram of the Maroon-chested Ground Dove: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Ventanilla, Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Azuay: upper Yunguilla Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Males of the maroon-chested ground dove are 18 to 24 cm (7.1 to 9.4 in) long and females 19 to 22 cm (7.5 to 8.7 in). Both sexes weigh between 89 and 95 g (3.1 and 3.4 oz). The adult male's forehead, face, and chin are grayish white. Its breast is dark purple changing to gray on the belly and vent. Its upperparts and wings are blue-gray, with the folded wing showing two broad dark bars. The central tail feathers are gray, the outermost white, and those between grayish white. Its orange eye is surrounded by bare yellow skin. Voice: The maroon-chested ground dove's song is "a series of low-pitched, slightly rising bisyllable coos 'cuWOOP.....cuWOOP.....cuWOOP...'".

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When to see the Maroon-chested Ground Dove

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Maroon-chested Ground Dove

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Panama Guatemala Ecuador Peru Colombia Honduras Venezuela Bolivia Nicaragua El Salvador

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mexico.

About the Maroon-chested Ground Dove

The maroon-chested ground dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is native to the American Cordillera of Central and South America.

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Easily confused with

Purple-winged Ground DoveParaclaravis geoffroyiThe purple-winged ground dove is a critically endangered species of dove, native to the Atlantic forest, mainly near bamboo, in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and northern-eastern Argentina.

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