Blue-eyed Ground Dove vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Columbina cyanopis مقارنةً بـ Ptilinopus mercierii

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Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Blue-eyed Ground Dove Red-moustached Fruit-dove
الاسم العلمي Columbina cyanopis Ptilinopus mercierii
الرتبة Columbiformes Columbiformes
الفصيلة Columbidae Columbidae
حالة الحفاظ Critically Endangered Extinct
الطول
طول الجناح 13,5 cm (5.3 in)
الوزن 45,6 g (1.61 oz)
النظام الغذائي -- --
عدد البيض في الوضع 2 --
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

بلا

Blue-eyed Ground Dove only

بلا

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

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Song & Call Comparison

Blue-eyed Ground Dove

الغناء

Soft, gentle cooing; pure warm notes with pale quality through dry open terrain. Vocalization pattern typical of this species in its native habitat.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

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حالة الحفاظ

Critically Endangered

Blue-eyed Ground Dove

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

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How to Tell Them Apart

Blue-eyed Ground Dove

الريش

Crested Quail-Dove (Versicolor): multicolored iridescent back; black crest; white facial stripe; rufous flanks; Jamaica endemic

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

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About These Birds

Blue-eyed Ground Dove

Tiny dove, 14–17 cm, brown with a distinctive pale blue iris. Formerly known from cerrado grasslands of central Brazil (Mato Grosso and Goiás); nearly extinct due to agricultural conversion of cerrado. Critically Endangered (possibly Extinct); fewer than ten confirmed records since 1941.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Red-moustached Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus mercierii), 27 cm. Green with a red moustachial streak and orange underparts; endemic to the Marquesas Islands. Last confirmed on Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Possibly Extinct; last reliably recorded in the 1970s. Threatened by introduced rats and cats.

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