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Spilopelia chinensis ceylonensis, Sri Lanka🕊️

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SpeciesColumbiformesColumbidae
Birds

🕊️Spotted Dove

Spilopelia chinensis (Scopoli, 1786)

The spotted dove or eastern spotted dove is a small and somewhat long-tailed pigeon that is a common resident breeding bird across its native range on the Indian subcontinent and in East and Southeast Asia. The species has been introduced to many parts of the world and feral populations have become established.

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Also called
Eastern Spotted Dove
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.16 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Spotted Dove

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Body mass
0.16 kg
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Tail length
0.13 m
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Wing length
0.14 m
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Beak length
0.02 m
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Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Spotted Dove yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderColumbiformes
  5. ›familyColumbidae
  6. ›genusSpilopelia
  7. ›speciesSpilopelia chinensis
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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In other languages
珠颈斑鸠 (zh), Spilopelia chinensis (ca), hrdlička kropenatá (cs), Perlehalsdue (da), Östliche Perlhalstaube (de), Spilopelia chinensis (es) … and 25 more languages
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