Yungas Dove vs Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Leptotila megalura comparado com Ptilinopus mercierii

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Yungas Dove Red-moustached Fruit-dove
Nome científico Leptotila megalura Ptilinopus mercierii
Ordem Columbiformes Columbiformes
Família Columbidae Columbidae
Estado de conservação Least Concern Extinct
Comprimento
Envergadura 30,0 cm (11.8 in)
Peso 218,0 g (7.69 oz)
Dieta -- --
Tamanho da postura 2 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Habitats partilhados

Yungas Dove only

Nenhum

Red-moustached Fruit-dove only

Nenhum

Song & Call Comparison

Yungas Dove

Canto

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

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

Estado de conservação

Least Concern

Yungas Dove

Extinct

Red-moustached Fruit-dove

How to Tell Them Apart

Yungas Dove

Plumagem

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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