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Common Ground-Dove

Columbina passerina ORDER: COLUMBIFORMES FAMILY: COLUMBIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

The smallest dove in the United States, the Common Ground-Dove is a bird of the southern United States and tropical America. Aptly named, it feeds and nests on the ground.

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Calls

  • Song
  • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

A moaning, rising "whooah," repeated monotonously.

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