Female © Tom Murray
Male and female (with Inca Dove) © Dick Dionne
Male © Róger Rodríguez Bravo
Female © Doug Korver
+ 2
© Jerome Foster

Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

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Identification

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Small, well-named ruddy dove of humid open and semi-open areas, often in villages and even towns, where sometimes perches on wires. Often in groups, sometimes even a hundred birds, which flush explosively from underfoot. Male is ruddy overall (but much paler in West Mexico); female is plain grayish brown overall, lacking scaly breast of slightly smaller Common Ground Dove. Like other ground doves, both sexes of Ruddy show bright rusty wing patches in flight.

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