Male (Western) © Frédéric PELSY eBird S65199885 Macaulay Library ML 206168111
Female (Eastern) © Nigel Voaden
Male (Eastern) © John C. Mittermeier
Male (Western) © Lizabeth Southworth
Male (Eastern) © John C. Mittermeier
+ 4
Female (Western) © Chris Wiley
Male (Western) © Dick Jenkin
Female (Western) © Stephan Lorenz

Bronze Ground Dove Pampusana beccarii

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Identification

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A rotund, short-legged ground-dwelling dove that usually runs rather than flies when startled. Both sexes have a brown body with bluish-gray chest and head. Males have an iridescent pink shoulder patch. Most obvious identification feature in the field is the glowing white eye-ring of the male, especially in more eastern populations such as those in the Solomon Islands. On mainland New Guinea, the species is a resident of upper-elevation montane forest. No other similar species occur in its altitudinal range. Gives a typical dove-like “woo-oop” call which is quiet and easily missed.

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