ML363272971

Age and sex

Immature Unknown sex - 1

Behaviors

Foraging or eating

Observation details

*Rare. A near adult bird seen sitting on a dirt road, before flying away. We saw it briefly perched on a low tree, where we noticed clear black spots on back and wing coverts plus black markings on neck and breast. At flight, warm brown, lighter (almost buffy) in underparts, longish, evidently rounded tail with black terminal band skipping the central rectrices and buffy tips to the tail (but also saw white tips to lateral rectrices when fanning the tail, gray wings with blackish tip of primaries. Barely photographed flying and perched. In photos, notice slender shape, rounded tail (proportionally shorter than that of Mourning Dove), black line behind eye (not only under the eye), grayish (or lavender) axillaries and clear black spots on coverts and black scalloping in breast. The most similar species is Mourning Dove, which is not expected in the area, has proportionally longer, pointed tail (even at this age) with different pattern. Separated from female Blue Ground-Dove by shape and lack of contrasting rufous rump/tail. From White-tipped Dove by shape, flight style and different coverts, tail and underwing patterns.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7200

ISO

320

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1889 pixels x 1259 pixels

Original file size

458.95 KB