Red-moustached Fruit-dove vs Tuxtla Quail-Dove

Ptilinopus mercierii verglichen mit Zentrygon carrikeri

Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal Red-moustached Fruit-dove Tuxtla Quail-Dove
Wissenschaftlicher Name Ptilinopus mercierii Zentrygon carrikeri
Ordnung Columbiformes Columbiformes
Familie Columbidae Columbidae
Erhaltungsstatus Extinct Endangered
Länge
Flügelspannweite 29,3 cm (11.5 in)
Gewicht 270,5 g (9.54 oz)
Ernährung -- --
Gelegegröße -- 1
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

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Tuxtla Quail-Dove only

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Erhaltungsstatus

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Endangered

Tuxtla Quail-Dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Tuxtla Quail-Dove

Gefieder

Tuxtla Quail-Dove: dark brown above; rufous-buff below; bare blue-gray facial skin; long tail; Tuxtla Mexico endemic; endangered

About These Birds

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.

Tuxtla Quail-Dove

Medium quail-dove, 25–28 cm, with brown upperparts, grey head and neck, rufous breast, and pale facial stripe. Confined to cloud forest and humid montane forest in Veracruz and adjacent Oaxaca, Mexico. Terrestrial forager of seeds and fruits. Endangered due to extreme range restriction and continuous cloud-forest loss.

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