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Bird name:

White-tipped Dove

Leptotila verreauxiOrder: COLUMBIFORMES Family: Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Codes: Common Name: WTDO Scientific Name: LEPVER ITIS Taxonomic No.: 177166

Breeding Location:

Bushes and shrubs

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Stable

Egg Color:

Creamy buff

Number of Eggs:

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Sticks, twigs of grass, fibers and weed stems.

Migration:

Nonmigratory

General

White-tipped Dove: Medium-sized dove with gray-brown upperparts, pale gray breast, white forehead and belly, chestnut-brown underwings, and white-tipped tail. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

White-tipped Dove: Resident in southern Texas. Also found in American tropics. Found in understories of dense, shady woodlands.

Breeding and Nesting

White-tipped Dove: Two creamy buff eggs are laid in a nest made from sticks, grass, fibers, and weed stems and built in low branch of a tree, shrub, or tangle of vines. Sometimes nests on the ground. Both parents incubate eggs for about 14 days.

Foraging and Feeding

White-tipped Dove: Eats seeds, prickly pear cactus, grass, cultivated grains, and large insects; forages on the ground.

Vocalization

White-tipped Dove: Song is a low, hollow cooing, "ooh-oohoooooooooooooo", similar to blowing across the top of a bottle.

Similar Species

White-tipped Dove: Mourning Dove has pink-gray forehead and throat, gray underparts, and long, pointed tail with white tips on all but central tail feathers. White-winged Dove has white crescents across wings.

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White-tipped Dove

White-tipped Dove: Medium dove, gray-brown upperparts, pale gray breast, white forehead and belly, chestnut-brown underwings, white-tipped tail. Black bill, red legs and feet. Feeds mainly from the ground. Walks on ground in dense understory. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Song: "ooh-oohoooooooooooooo"

● Foraging & Feeding: White-tipped Dove: Eats seeds, prickly pear cactus, grass, cultivated grains, and large insects; forages on the ground.

● Breeding & nesting: White-tipped Dove: Two creamy buff eggs are laid in a nest made from sticks, grass, fibers, and weed stems and built in low branch of a tree, shrub, or tangle of vines. Sometimes nests on the ground. Both parents incubate eggs for about 14 days.

● Similar species: White-tipped Dove: Mourning Dove has pink-gray forehead and throat, gray underparts, and long, pointed tail with white tips on all but central tail feathers. White-winged Dove has white crescents across wings.

Flight Pattern

Very swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

White-tipped Dove Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: White-tipped Dove: Resident in southern Texas. Also found in American tropics. Found in understories of dense, shady woodlands.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationStable

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight5.4 Ounces

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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White-tipped Dove

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General

Range and Habitat

Breeding and Nesting

Foraging and Feeding

Vocalization

Similar Species

White-tipped Dove

Flight Pattern