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Zenaida aurita

(Temminck, 1809)

Zenaida Dove

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G5SecureGlobal Rank
Least concernIUCN
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105951
Element CodeABNPB04020
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVertebrate Animal
IUCNLeast concern
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCraniata
ClassAves
OrderColumbiformes
FamilyColumbidae
GenusZenaida
Other Common Names
Paloma Aurita (ES) Tourterelle à queue carrée (FR) zenaida dove (EN)
Concept Reference
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
Conservation Status
Review Date1996-11-27
Change Date1996-11-27
Range Extent Comments
Resident in Bahamas, Greater Antilles (and Cayman Islands), Lesser Antilles (south to Grenada), and formerly in Florida Keys; also along coast of Yucatan Peninsula, and on Holbox, Cancun, and Mujeres islands (AOU 1983). Rarely appears in Florida (Smith and Smith 1989).
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

Open woodland, second growth, scrub, cultivated areas, forest with clearings. In Puerto Rico, mainly in open areas along coast, often on grounds of universities, hotels, public beaches (Raffaele 1983); sometimes in pine plantations (Collazo and Bonilla 1988). Nests in tree or bush, on cliff, in rock crevice, or, in mongoose-free areas (such as small islands), on ground (Nellis et al. 1984, Burger et al. 1989).

Reproduction

Breeds mainly March-August in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, but may nest any month; fall breeding may be a fairly regular occurrence in southwestern Puerto Rico and Isla Mona (Hammerson 1984, Nellis et al. 1984). Clutch size usually is 2. Incubation lasts 2 weeks. Young fledge at 14-17 days.
Terrestrial Habitats
Woodland - HardwoodShrubland/chaparralSavannaOld fieldCropland/hedgerowSuburban/orchard
Palustrine Habitats
Riparian
Other Nations (1)
United StatesNXB
ProvinceRankNative
FloridaSHYes
Roadless Areas (2)
Puerto Rico (2)
AreaForestAcres
El Toro AreaCaribbean National Forest12,584
Mameyes AreaCaribbean National Forest11,150
References (19)
  1. American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1983. Check-list of North American Birds, 6th edition. Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas. 877 pp.
  2. American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in <i>The Auk</i>]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
  3. BirdLife International. 2004b. Threatened birds of the world 2004. CD ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
  4. Boydstun, C. P., and C. A. DeYoung. 1988. Movements of white-tipped doves in southern Texas. Southwest. Nat. 33:365-367.
  5. Burger, J., et al. 1989. Nest site selection in zenaida dove (ZENAIDA AURITA) in Puerto Rico. Biotropica 21:244-249.
  6. Collazo, J. A., and G. I. Bonilla-Martinez. 1988. Comparacion de la riqueza de aves entre plantaciones de pino hondureno (<i>Pinus caribea</i>) y areas de bosque nativo en el Bosque Estatal de Carite, Cayey, Puerto Rico. Caribbean J. Sci. 24:1-10.
  7. Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and doves of the world. Third edition. British Museum (Natural History), London, and Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca. 363 pp. [496 pp.?]
  8. Hammerson, G. A. 1984. Studies of resident gamebirds: Zenaida dove (ZENAIDA AURITA) and scaly-naped pigeon (COLUMBA SQUAMOSA). Annual report, Pittman-Robertson project W-11.
  9. Howell, S. N. G., and S. Webb. 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
  10. Johnson, K. P. and D. H. Clayton. 2000. A molecular phylogeny of the dove genus Zenaida: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Condor 102:864-870.
  11. Lack, D. 1976. Island biology illustrated by the land birds of Jamaica. Studies in Ecology, Vol. 3. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 445 pp.
  12. Nellis, D. W., et al. 1984. Population status of Zenaida doves and other columbids in the Virgin Islands. J. Wildl. Manage. 48:889-894.
  13. Parker III, T. A., D. F. Stotz, and J. W. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Ecological and distributional databases for neotropical birds. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  14. Raffaele, H. A. 1983a. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Fondo Educativo Interamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 255 pp.
  15. Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 511 pp.
  16. Rivera-Milan, F. F. 1992. Distribution and relative abundance patterns of columbids in Puerto Rico. Condor 94:224-238.
  17. Rivera-Milán, F. F. aand F. C. Schaffner. 2002. Demography of Zenaida Doves on Cayo del Agua, Culebra, Puerto Rico. Condor 104:587-597.
  18. Smith, P. W., and S. A. Smith. 1989. A Zenaida dove in Florida, with comments on the species and its appearance here. Florida Field Nat. 17:67-69.
  19. Tomlinson, R. E., H. M. Wight, and T. S. Baskett. 1960. Migratonal homing, local movement, and mortality of mourning doves in Missouri. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resource Conference 25:253-267.