Blue Ground Dove - BirdForum Opus

Male above, female below
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Bosque del Rio Tigre Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, February 2015

Claravis pretiosa

Identification

20 cm
Male

• Blue-grey upperparts
• Pale grey underparts
• Greyish-white face
• Black flight feathers and outer tail feathers
• Black spots on wings
• Red or yellow iris
• Bare green eye ring
• Pink legs
  

Female

• Greyish-brown head, neck and breast
• Pale blue-grey underwings and belly
• Reddish-brown back
• Chestnut rump and tail

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: South-eastern Mexico (San Luis Potosí), Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Humid open woodland, forest edges, clearings and roadsides, montane forest to 1200 m.

Behaviour

Breeding

It builds a frail dish-shaped twiggy nest. The clutch consists of 2 white eggs.

Diet

The diet includes seeds and insects.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Blue Ground Dove. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue_Ground_Dove

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