Zenaida aurita

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 600 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 864 meters (0 to 2,835 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Zenaida aurita (Temminck, 1809) • Zenaida aurita Temminck 1809

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 26-May-2005

Similar Species

Mourning Dove

Members of the genus Zenaida

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species and subspecies in this genus:

Z. asiatica (White-Winged Dove) · Z. asiatica asiatica (White-Winged Dove) · Z. asiatica clara (White-Winged Dove) · Z. asiatica mearnsi (White-Winged Dove) · Z. auriculata (Eared Dove) · Z. auriculata auriculata (Eared Dove) · Z. aurita (Zenaida Dove) · Z. aurita aurita (Zenaida Dove) · Z. aurita zenaida (Zenaida Dove) · Z. galapagoensis (Gal?pagos Dove) · Z. galapagoensis galapagoensis (Galapagos Dove) · Z. graysoni (Socorro Dove) · Z. macroura (American Mourning Dove) · Z. macroura carolinensis (Mourning Dove) · Z. macroura clarionensis (Mourning Dove) · Z. macroura macroura (Mourning Dove) · Z. macroura marginella (Mourning Dove) · Z. meloda (West Peruvian Dove)

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Further Reading

• A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url p. 379.
• A history of North American birds, by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 chromo-lithographic plates and 593 woodcuts. Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. url p. 379.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. url p. 454.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 519.
• Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. url p. 168.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 355, p. 363, p. 365, p. 368, p. 483.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1955 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 117, p. 302, p. 306, p. 307, p. 313, p. 318, p. 319.
• 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. 483, p. 485, p. 498, p. 499.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 380, p. 384.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] url p. 390.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 260, p. 691.
• 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. 256.
• Coral Reefs of the World. url p. 270, p. 357, p. 359.
• How to sex cage birds (British and foreign), London, "The Feathered world", "Canary and cage-bird life"[1907] url p. 148.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 425.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 202, p. 306, p. 493, p. 563, p. 60, p. 738.
• Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, The Academy. url p. 248, p. 398.
• Jobos Bay National Estuarine Sanctuary Management Plan. San Juan, P.R.: Dept. of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [1983] url p. 74.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London, Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 460, p. 460.
• Notes on birds in the Western Pacific, made in H.M.S. 'Constance', 1883-5 by J.R.H. MacFarlane. S.l.: s.n., 18--? url .
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, printer [etc.]1855-60. url .
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 140.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 18.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 505, p. 505, p. 58.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url , p. 183, p. 184, p. 192, p. 203, p. 245, p. 96.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 434, p. 479, p. 592.
• The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the southern hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52. Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, superintendent. .. Vol. I, II, III, VI. .. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1855-56. url , p. 191, p. 300.
• The birds of Chile, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 19 1932 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1932. url p. 344.
• 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 natural history of the island of Fernando de Noronha based on the collections made by the British Museum Expedition in 1887. [London: Academic Press], 1890. url p. 479.
• The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. .. during the years 1832-1836. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838- url , p. 115.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 12 1963 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url figs. 1-2, page 539, p. 659.
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 16, p. 436.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Zenaida aurita. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Zenaida aurita. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• 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, "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 March 10, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9413
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177118
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1982671
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177118
• IUCN ID: 249586
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNPB04020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178103

Footnotes

1. Mean = -123.040 meters (-403.675 feet), Standard Deviation = 804.170 based on 694 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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