White -tipped Dove. Leptotilla verreauxi
URBAN BIRDS OF THE PARKS, GARDENS, AND SOURROUNDING AREAS OF LOJA CITY ECUADOR. BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2009, WITH 44 COMMON SPECIES. ILLUSTRATED BY PABLO ANDRADE. WORK SUPPORTED BY JAN HINLOOPEN.
White – tipped Dove. Leptotilla verreauxi. Paloma Apical.
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26.5 – 28 cm (10.5 – 11″)
Distribution.
Fairly common on or near ground in deciduous and and semihumid forest and woodland and clearings in lowlands of west, also ranging up on west slope and locally in interandean valleys; also around Zumba in Río Marañon drainage, and in woodland on a few Río Napo islands.
White – tipped Dove. Leptotilla verreauxi
Description
Orbital ring purplish red. Grayish brown above, whitish on forehead; tail blackish, several outer feathers broadly white – tipped (in flight, looks like a terminal band). Throat white; underparts pale vinaceous, becoming whitish on lower belly. Río Napo birds similar but with orbital ring blue and forecrown less contrating.
Habits.
usually found singly as it walks about on ground, often inside woodland or forest but also coming out into open more often than other Leptotilla, specially early in day when on little-traveled roads or tracks. Usually wary; a flushed bird sometimes lands on a low perch where it may nod head, raise rear parts, and pace back and forth nervously. Flight fast and strong, and generrally low; white in tail often flashes conspicuously, but no more so than in congeners (its extent not a useful field character).
Voice.
Song a soft, hollow “who-whoo"” with distictive 2 noted effect (other Leptotilla give single notes).
Information taken from the book Birds Of Ecuador of Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield.