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Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana

  • Order: Columbiformes
  • Family: Columbidae
  • Polytypic: 2 subspecies
  • Authors: Zerick Kuecker, Carlos A. Soberanes-González, Claudia I. Rodríguez-Flores, Marîa del Coro Arizmendi, and Tom Johnson
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Diet and Foraging

Diet

The Ruddy Quail-Dove forages on the ground for fallen fruit (Skutch 1949). The diet in Jamaica includes pimento, physic-nut and other oily seeds, sweet-wood, and also small slugs; in captivity it can survive on a diet of corn (Gosse 1847).

Foraging Behavior

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Recommended Citation

Kuecker, Z., C. A. Soberanes-González, C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, M. d. C. Arizmendi, and T. Johnson (2012). Ruddy Quail-Dove (Geotrygon montana), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.ruqdov.01