Blue-headed Wood Dove
| Blue-headed Wood Dove | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Turtur |
| Species: | T. brehmeri |
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| Turtur brehmeri (Hartlaub, 1865) |
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The Blue-headed Wood Dove, Turtur brehmeri also known as Blue-headed Dove is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, rufous brown wood-dove with bluish-grey head, an iridescent green patches on wings, reddish bill, dark brown iris and dark red feet. Both sexes are similar. The young is duller than adult.
The Blue-headed Wood Dove is distributed to primary rainforests of equatorial mid-western Africa, in Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana and Togo.
The Blue-headed Wood Dove nests on trees. The nest is made from twigs, leaves and other vegetation matters. Its diet consists mainly of seeds, fallen fruits, insects and small animals taken from feeding grounds. The female usually lays between one to two eggs.
Widespread and locally common throughout its large range, the Blue-headed Wood Dove is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Turtur brehmeri. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 19 February 2007. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
[edit] External links
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Turtur
- Birds of Angola
- Birds of Cameroon
- Birds of the Central African Republic
- Birds of the Republic of the Congo
- Birds of Côte d'Ivoire
- Birds of Equatorial Guinea
- Birds of Gabon
- Birds of Ghana
- Birds of Guinea
- Birds of Liberia
- Birds of Nigeria
- Birds of Sierra Leone
- Birds of Togo
