Inca dove
Columbina inca
Identification Tips:
- Sexes similar
- Adult similar to juvenile
- Small, slender dove
- Black bill
- Blue orbital ring
- Pale gray-brown body is darker on back and upperwings and is extensively scaly
(including back and belly)
- Cinnamon inner webs of primaries visible in flight, and occasionally at rest
- Long tail slightly rounded at tip
- Tail is brown centrally, with black edges and white outermost tail feathers
Similar species:
Juvenile Mourning Doves are also long-tailed and scaly, but have dark spots
on coverts, are never so extensively scaly and lack blue orbital ring and
cinnamon primaries. Common Ground-Dove is similar but shorter-tailed, has
dark spots on coverts and is only scaly about head and breast, never on
back and belly.