Endangered
White-fronted Quail-Dove
Geotrygon leucometopia
White-fronted Quail-Dove is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Geotrygon leucometopia, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The white-fronted quail-dove is about 28 cm (11 in) long, and weighs about 171 g (6.0 oz). The adult has a bold white forehead ("front"), and the rest of its head is slate gray. The sides of its neck have a reddish purple or violet cast that sometimes extends onto the gray breast.
Range and habitat
It inhabits low elevation subtropical forests, montane forest possibly as high as 1,800 m (5,900 ft), and a few arid areas with cactus and scrub. It is endemic to the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. It is possibly extirpated from Haiti.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The white-fronted quail-dove's diet is seeds and small invertebrates like insects, grubs, and caterpillars. The white-fronted quail-dove builds a nest of twigs and leaves lined with rootlets and grass and places it low in undergrowth or a vine tangle.
In crisis
White-fronted Quail-Dove is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on White-fronted Quail-Dove, Wikidata item Q2984142. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
