Yungas Dove vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Leptotila megalura مقارنةً بـ Ptilinopus mercierii

Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Yungas Dove Red-moustached Fruit-dove
الاسم العلمي Leptotila megalura Ptilinopus mercierii
الرتبة Columbiformes Columbiformes
الفصيلة Columbidae Columbidae
حالة الحفاظ Least Concern Extinct
الطول
طول الجناح 30,0 cm (11.8 in)
الوزن 218,0 g (7.69 oz)
النظام الغذائي -- --
عدد البيض في الوضع 2 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

Yungas Dove only

بلا

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

بلا

Song & Call Comparison

Yungas Dove

الغناء

Soft, gentle cooing with Yungas quality; pure warm notes typical of Andean slope dense humid forest.

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

حالة الحفاظ

Least Concern

Yungas Dove

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Yungas Dove

الريش

Yungas Dove: brown above; pale gray-white below; long graduated tail; bare facial skin; Bolivian Andean Yungas forest dove

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

About These Birds

Yungas Dove

Medium dove, 27–30 cm, brown above with a grey head, pale underparts, and notably long tail with white tips. Inhabits humid foothill and montane forest of the Yungas zone in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina (Tucumán to Jujuy). Terrestrial frugivore and granivore. Least Concern.

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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