Patagioenas squamosa

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Humid highlands, especially in rainforest.

Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 2,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,641 meters (0 to 15,226 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Biology

Diet

Various berries , buds, fruits, succulent leaves, and small snails.

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Columba squamosa Bonnaterre • Patagioenas squamosa (Bonnaterre, 1792)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 26-May-2005

Similar Species

Rock Dove, White-Crowned Pigeon

Members of the genus Patagioenas

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

P. araucana (Chilean Pigeon) · P. caribaea (Ring-Tailed Pigeon) · P. cayennensis (Pale Vented Pigeon) · P. cayennensis cayennensis (Pale-Vented Pigeon) · P. corensis (Bare-Eyed Pigeon) · P. fasciata (Band-Tailed Pigeon) · P. fasciata fasciata (Band-Tailed Pigeon) · P. flavirostris (Red-Billed Pigeon) · P. flavirostris flavirostris (Red-Billed Pigeon) · P. goodsoni (Dusky Pigeon) · P. inornata (Plain Pigeon) · P. leucocephala (White-Crowned Pigeon) · P. maculosa (Spot-Winged Pigeon) · P. nigrirostris (Short-Billed Pigeon) · P. oenops (Maranon Pigeon) · P. picazuro (Picazuro Pigeon) · P. plumbea (Plumbeous Pigeon) · P. speciosa (Scaled Pigeon) · P. squamosa (Scaly-Naped Pigeon) · P. subvinacea (Ruddy Pigeon)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A list of the birds of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Govt. print. off., 1920. url .
• 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. 433.
• Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, The Academy. url p. 390.
• 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 .

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Patagioenas squamosa. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Patagioenas squamosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Access date: Dec 30, 2005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9337
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-676910
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13818864
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177064
• IUCN ID: 230770
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 668909

Footnotes

1. Mean = 135.550 meters (444.718 feet), Standard Deviation = 469.490 based on 90,127 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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