Andean Ground Doves
Metriopelia
Metriopelia is a genus of ground doves containing four species that live in the dry, upland habitats along the Andean mountain chain in South America. They have large wings and three species have orange skin around the eyes.
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1855 with the black-winged ground dove (Metriopelia melanoptera) as the type species. The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek metrios meaning "modest" with peleia meaning "dove".
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Bare-faced Ground Dove
speciesMetriopelia ceciliae
Black-winged Ground Dove
speciesMetriopelia melanoptera
Golden-spotted Ground Dove
speciesMetriopelia aymara
Bare-eyed Ground Dove
speciesMetriopelia morenoi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3315.