Scaled Dove

Scaled Dove
In Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Columbina
Species:	C. squammata
Binomial name
Columbina squammata (Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms
Scardafella squammata (but see text)

Subspecies C. s. ridgwayi Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela

The Scaled Dove (Columbina squammata) is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Columbina squammata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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