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Barred Cuckoo-Dove
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Barred Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia unchall
The barred cuckoo-dove (Macropygia unchall) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is rated as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species.
From the article Barred cuckoo-dove on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The barred cuckoo-dove has a buff coloured throat and forehead which becomes pinkish grey at the crown. measures 37 to 41 cm (15 to 16 in) in length, and weighs 153 to 182 g (5.4 to 6.4 oz). Its iris is yellow or pale brown, the beak is black and short, and the feet are red. It has blackish brown upperparts. The back, mantle (between the nape and the starting of the back), rump, wing coverts, and scapulars have reddish brown fringes. The tail is blackish brown, and is heavily barred reddish brown. It is similar to the little cuckoo-dove, but it is much larger and darker, and is black-barred on the mantle, breast, coverts, and tail.
Range & habitat
The barred cuckoo-dove occurs from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia. It inhabits dense subtropical woodlands at altitudes of 800 to 3,000 m (2,600 to 9,800 ft) from sea level, on montane slopes. It prefers clearings and edges of old-growth forests and second growth forests.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The barred cuckoo-dove lives in small flocks. It has a loud kro-uum or u-va vocalization, in which the second note is louder than the first.
Wikipedia: “Behavior and ecology”
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Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 2870.