Endangered
Tuxtla quail-dove
Zentrygon carrikeri
Tuxtla quail-dove is a pigeon in the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes) — Zentrygon carrikeri, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The adult's head, neck, throat and breast are light bluish gray and the flanks light brown. Its back and wings are olive brown with little iridescence. Juveniles are darker all over with cinnamon edges to the upperparts' feathers and buff bars on the breast.
The Tuxtla quail-dove is 20 to 31.5 cm (7.9 to 12.4 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Tuxtla quail-dove is found only on two volcanoes in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas of southeastern Mexico's Veracruz state, Volcán de San Martín and Sierra de Santa Marta. It inhabits humid evergreen forest and cloudforest at elevations between 350 and 2,100 m (1,150 and 6,890 ft). It is endemic to southeastern Mexico.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Tuxtla quail-dove forages singly or in pairs. No details of its diet have been published but it probably feeds on fruit, seeds, and invertebrates found in leaf litter.
The only documented Tuxtla quail-dove nest was a loosely constructed platform supported by bamboo shoots. It contained one egg.
In crisis
Tuxtla 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 Tuxtla quail-dove, Wikidata item Q27074683. 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.
