[order] COLUMBIFORMES | [family] Columbidae | [latin] Patagioenas subvinacea | [UK] Ruddy Pigeon | [FR] Pigeon vineux | [DE] Purpurtaube | [ES] Paloma Vinosa | [NL] Purpurduif
Subspecies
| Genus | Species | subspecies | Breeding Range | Breeding Range 2 | Non Breeding Range |
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | LA | Costa Rica through Amazonia | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | berlepschi | se Panama to sw Ecuador | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | ogilviegranti | Andes of Colombia to ne Bolivia, w Brazil | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | peninsularis | ne Venezuela | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | purpureotincta | se Colombia, s Venezuela, the Guianas | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | subvinacea | Costa Rica, Panama | ||
| Patagioenas | subvinacea | zuliae | ne Colombia, w Venezuela |
Physical charateristics
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 and eyes are purple-red. The female is slightly duller and browner than the male, and the juvenile bird has a greyish brown head, neck and breast, with cinnamon or rufous scaling on the head and upperparts.
Listen to the sound of Ruddy Pigeon
[audio:http://www.aviflevoland.nl/sounddb/R/Ruddy Pigeon.mp3]
Copyright remark: Most sounds derived from xeno-canto
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Range
Latin America : Costa Rica through Amazonia
Habitat
Dense rain forests with clearings up to 2200 meter. Also found in ripirian woods (Venezuela).
Reproduction
The nest consists of a small loosely constructed platform made out of twigs. It is located in a fork or in a branch of a small tree, approximately 5 meter above ground. Clutch size is one white egg which are laid in June and July (Venezuela). No further data.
Feeding habits
Diet consists of tree fruit, seeds and berries. On occasion it descends to the ground to harvest seeds.
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Migration
Sedentary, high elevated populations descent to lower lands outside the breeding season.
Distribution map
