Gray-headed Dove - BirdForum Opus

Photo by tomjenner
Los Naranjos, Honduras, July 2005

Leptotila plumbeiceps

Includes: Azuero Dove (or Brown-backed Dove)

Identification

23·5–26 cm

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: found only in Colombia

Taxonomy

Some authorities split battyi and malae as Azuero Dove (Leptotila battyi).

Subspecies^[1]

• L. p. plumbeiceps:

• South-eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas), western Costa Rica and western Colombia

• L. p. notia:

• Caribbean slope of western Panama
  

• L. p. malae:

• Pacific slope of Panama

• L. p. battyi:

• Isla Coiba (off south-central Panama)

Habitat

Humid forests and forest edges.

Behaviour

No information on diet, and little known about breeding, at the time of editing.

Vocalisation

Song: a mournful wooOOOoo

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Gray-headed Dove. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gray-headed_Dove

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