Black-winged Ground Dove

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The Black-winged Ground Dove is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The black-winged ground dove is nearly three-quarters the size of a common domestic ringneck dove. It is plump with a proportionately shorter tail and wings. The male's body is basically a tannish-gray with shading that is nearly the color of raw umber. The body possesses a pinkish sheen in the sunlight. Two snow-white patches adorn each shoulder and along the edge of the underwing. The primary wing feathers and the outer secondaries, as well as most of the underwings, are black. More

Black-winged Ground Dove, Golden Spoted Dove, Gray-hooded & Mountain Parakeet, Burrowing & Short-eared Owl, White-collared & Andean Swift, Andean Hillstart, White-sided & Wedge-tailed Hillstar, Giant Hummingbird, Red-tailed Comet, Andean Flicker, Cream-winged & White-winged Cinclodes, Tufted & Plain-mantled Tit Spinetail, Tufted Tit Tyrant, Streak-fronted Thornbird, D'Orbigny's Chat Tyrant, Common Miner, Puna Miner, Rufous-banded & Slender-billed Miners, Cordilleran Canastero, Rusty-vented Canastero, Steinbach's & Cordoba Canastero and many Ground Tyrant such as Rufous-napped, White-browed, Puna, Ochre-napped, Cinnamon-bellied, Black-fronted, Dark-faced, Spot billed and More

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Family : Columbidae
Genus : Metriopelia
Species : melanoptera
Authority : (Molina, 1782)