Scaled Dove (Columbina squammata)

Family: Columbidae

Columbina squammata;
Scaled Dove;
Fogo-apagou.

Columba squamosa
TEMMINCK and KNIP 1810
Columba squammata LESSON 1831

Local race is nominate subspecies, distributed in central and eastern Brazil and neighbouring countries (Clements 2007).

13/01/2006; Fazenda Canaã, Pentecoste, Ceará, Brazil. 200 mm f2.8 lens.