Tambourine Dove, Tambourine Dove On Forest Floor By Ferdy Christant Jungledragon

As forest birds they eat a richer diet than the popular doves of the arid regions.

Chitarra giapponese trapezoidale. As such this shy species is usually seen when flushed whilst feeding on the forest floor the tambourine dove builds a frail stick nest low in a thicket or vine tangle and lays two cream coloured eggs. Close also occurs at forest edge of both primary and secondary. Its back hind neck wings and tail are pale grey brown and the folded wings have large dark purple patches.

Atkins 2009 birds of ethiopia and eritrea. Shy understory species that is most often seen on the ground. Small dove with a dark brown back and pale face and underparts.

The male has a white face with a black spot behind the eye white underparts and a grey crown. The tambourine dove turtur tympanistria is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in woodlands and other thick vegetation in africa south of the sahara desertits range extends from senegal east to ethiopia and kenya and southwards through eastern africa to south eastern south africa but it is absent from the drier areas of south western africa. Found in rainforest gallery forest thickets moist woodland and plantations.

Tambourine doves bill are a reddish purple tipped with dark brown and its legs and feet are purplish red. The tambourine dove is a small plump pigeon typically 22 cm in length. An atlas of distribution.

Tambourine dove this is very much a species of thick woodlands including dense gardens and plantations of castor oil cocoa and rubber. Tambourine dove females have a whitish grey face and her bill varies from near black to reddish purple. In flight the wings show rufous patches.

Females are grey in most of the males white areas with white being restricted to her belly. Song is a long series of hollow hoo notes with a stuttering start and a long even end. Typically found in deep forest in montane lowland and riparian areas as well as gallery and secondary forest from sea level to moderate elevations reaching as high as 3000 m in kenya and 2150 m in ethiopia 2 ash j.

Separated from wood doves by its darker back and paler.