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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Columbiformes
Family:Columbidae
Genus:Zenaida
Bonaparte, 1838
Species


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The Zenaida doves (Zenaida) make up a small genus of American doves. There are 7 species: DNA sequence analysis (Johnson & Clayton, 2000) confirms that the White-winged and Pacific Doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as good species. Relationships among the other species are quite unequivocal too; what is not quite clear is whether the Galapagos Dove is most closely related to the Zenaida Dove (as tentatively indicated by morphology) or to the Eared and Mourning Doves (as suggested by DNA sequences — although with a very low confidence level - and, most robustly, biogeography).

The name of this genus commemorates Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, wife of Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

References

  • Johnson, Kevin P. & Clayton, Dale H. (2000): A Molecular Phylogeny of the Dove Genus Zenaida: Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA sequences. Condor 102(4): 864-870. PDF fulltext
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Columbiformes
Latham, 1790

Families
  • Columbidae
  • Raphidae


The bird order Columbiformes includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons, classified in the family Columbidae, and the extinct Dodo and the Rodrigues
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Charles Lucien (Carlo) Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (May 24, 1803 – July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Emperor Napoleon.
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Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Z. asiatica

Binomial name
Zenaida asiatica

The White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) is a dove whose native range extends from the south-western USA through Mexico and the Caribbean.
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Z. meloda

Binomial name
Zenaida meloda
(Tschudi, 1843)

The Pacific Dove (Zenaida meloda) is also known as the West Peruvian Dove
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Z. aurita

Binomial name
Zenaida aurita
(Temminck, 1810)

The Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita) is a member of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons.
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Z. galapagoensis

Binomial name
Zenaida galapagoensis
Gould, 1839

The Galápagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.
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Z. auriculata

Binomial name
Zenaida auriculata
(Des Murs, 1847)

The Eared Dove, Zenaida auriculata, is a New World tropical dove.
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Z. macroura

Binomial name
Zenaida macroura
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Winter only (blue), summer only (light green), and year-round (dark green) range


Subspecies
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Z. graysoni

Binomial name
Zenaida graysoni
Lawrence, 1871

The Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni) is a dove that is extinct in the wild. The last sighting in its natural habitat was in 1972.
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Reintroduction is the deliberate release of animals from captivity into the wild. It usually involves species that are endangered or extinct in the wild. In some cases, reintroduction involves a species that had been wiped out in a particular ecosystem, but survived elsewhere in
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DNA sequence or genetic sequence is a succession of letters representing the primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA molecule or strand, with the capacity to carry information.
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confidence interval (CI) is an interval estimate of a population parameter. Instead of estimating the parameter by a single value, a whole interval of likely estimates is given. How likely the estimates are is determined by the confidence coefficient.
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Biogeography is the study of the distribution of biodiversity over space and time. It aims to reveal where organisms live, at what abundance, and why.[1]
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Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (July 8,1801- 1854) was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte and Julie Clary. She joined her father in his New Jersey exile for several years, and was married to her cousin Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an
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The Condor is the quarterly journal of the Cooper Ornithological Society. First published in 1899, it is one of the oldest ornithological journals in existence.

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  • List of journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology


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