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Zentrygon linearis
Photo © by Robert_Scanlon
Santa Marta Mts, Colombia March 2006

Identification

Distribution

South America: Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

Taxomomy

Formerly placed in the genus Geotrygon

Subspecies

  • Z. l. linearis -- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (northern Colombia), Andes of Colombia and Venezuela, and coastal ranges of northern Venezuela east to southeastern Miranda
  • Z. l. trinitatis -- coastal northeastern Venezuela (Sucre and northern Monagas), Trinidad, and Tobago

Subspecies trinitatis was recently proposed as a full species.

Habitat

Montane and forest

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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