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Ruddy Pigeon
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Pigeons & doves

Ruddy Pigeon

Patagioenas subvinacea (Lawrence, 1868)

LC Least ConcernOn Suriname's list of threatened fauna

Names

EnglishRuddy Pigeon
DutchPurperduif
SpanishTorcaza colorada
Chinese赤鸽
Sranan Tongodoifi (general name for the group)
Scientific namePatagioenas subvinacea (Lawrence, 1868)

About this species

The ruddy pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea) is a largish pigeon which breeds from Costa Rica south to western Ecuador, Bolivia, and central Brazil. It belongs to a clade of small and rather plain species of Patagioenas with characteristic calls that constitute the subgenus Oenoenas. Like the other New World pigeons, it was formerly united with their Old World relatives in Columba, but today the New World genus Patagioenas is recognized as distinct again.

The ruddy pigeon is 28 cm (11 in) long and weighs 170 g. It is unpatterned and mainly wine-purple in colour, becoming more rufous on the back. The tail and primary flight feathers are dark brown, the bill is black, and the legs are purple-red. The iris is typically red, but can, at least in the Amazon basin, sometimes be dull yellow (however, due to the red eye-ring, the iris never appears as conspicuously white as in adults of the sympatric subspecies of the plumbeous pigeon, P. plumbea).

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderColumbiformes
FamilyColumbidae
GenusPatagioenas

In Suriname

646Records in Suriname
2iNaturalist observations
1913First record
2024Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini305
  • Brokopondo291
  • Para23
  • Paramaribo7
  • Commewijne5
  • Nickerie3
  • Saramacca3
  • Marowijne1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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