Columbina talpacoti

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub, arid lowland scrubs, riparian thickets, arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, pastures and agricultural lands • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Columbina talpacoti (Temminck, 1810)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 26-May-2005

Similar Species

Common Ground-Dove

Members of the genus Columbina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. buckleyi (Ecuadorian Ground Dove) · C. buckleyi buckleyi (Ecuadorian Ground Dove) · C. cruziana (Gold-Billed Ground Dove) · C. cyanopis (Blue-Eyed Ground Dove) · C. inca (Inca Dove) · C. inca inca (Inca Dove) · C. minuta (Plain-Breasted Ground Dove) · C. minuta minuta (Plain-Breasted Ground Dove) · C. passerina (Scaly-Breasted Ground-Dove) · C. passerina albivitta (Common Ground-Dove) · C. passerina bahamensis (Common Ground-Dove) · C. passerina neglecta (Common Ground-Dove) · C. passerina pallescens (Common Ground-Dove) · C. passerina passerina (Common Ground-Dove) · C. picui (Picui Ground Dove) · C. picui picui (Picui Ground Dove) · C. squammata (Scaled Dove) · C. squammata squammata (Scaled Dove) · C. talpacoti (Ruddy Ground Dove) · C. talpacoti talpacoti (Ruddy Ground Dove)

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Further Reading

• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 513, p. 582, p. 586.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 394, p. 397.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1972 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url fig. 28.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 125.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and othe 13 1942 Chicago, 1918- url p. 536.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 472, p. 485.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 260, p. 802.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 20 2000 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 154.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. 1991 Lawrence, Kan.: The University, 1971-1994. url p. 8.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Argentina / Raymond A. Paynter. 1995 Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1995. url p. 985.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 408.
• Seasonal status, relative abundance, and behavior of the birds of Concepción, Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia / Susan E. Davis. 71 1993 [Chicago, IL]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1993], c1992. url p. 21.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1968 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 26, p. 27, p. 29, p. 4, p. 597, p. 601, p. 603.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 18.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url p. 116.
• The Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara tar seeps, northwestern Peru. 1973. url , , , .
• The birds of British Guiana: based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. .. / London: Bernard Quaritch. .., 1916-1921. url p. 44, p. 45.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .
• The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1979. url p. 131, p. 132.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 17 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 653.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Columbina talpacoti. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Columbina talpacoti. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9422
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177156
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2498402
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177156
• IUCN ID: 201556
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNPB06040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13176

Footnotes

1. Mean = 461.120 meters (1,512.861 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,035.150 based on 11,378 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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