#1096 · 🐦 birds

Ruddy Ground Dove

🇳🇱 Steenduif ·Columbina talpacoti

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © eduardovieira17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © nachovallarta · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Dario Sanches · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Cláudio Dias Timm · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © barloventomagico · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © dunelark · CC BY 4.0
9. © Vladimir Rebellón Palmezano · CC BY 4.0
10. © Emiliano Hernández Ávila · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The ruddy ground dove ( Columbina talpacoti ) is a small New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from Mexico south to Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, and northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago. Individual birds can sometimes be seen in the southwestern USA, from southern Texas to southernmost California, primarily during winter.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 28,468iNaturalist observations
weight 46.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
28,468 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 47 g.
Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1810 (216 years ago).