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BLUE GROUND DOVE Claravis pretiosa
A handsome inhabitant of the forest understorey, the Blue Ground Dove is a large bird but secretive in its habits. This is a sexually dimorphic species and only the males are actually bluish, the females being a uniform brownish colour that affords them protection when sitting on the nest. Listen out for the deep, single-note HOO call of this bird.
FIGURE 1 - Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Hans Hostettler camera trap March 2008).
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Claravis pretiosa Blue Ground-Dove song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
