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BLUE GROUND DOVE Claravis pretiosa
A handsome inhabitant of the forest understorey, the Blue Ground Dove is a medium-sized dove of secretive habits. This is a sexually dimorphic species and only the males are actually bluish, the females being a uniform brownish colour that affords them protection when sitting on the nest. Listen out for the deep, single-note HOO call of this bird.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1939PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Hans Hostettler camera trap March 2008).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3481PH) Adult female, Tres Gigantes, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Paul Smith July 2012).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3671PH) Pair, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Paul Smith October 2012).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3672VI) Same pair as (FPAVE3671PH) (Paul Smith October 2012).
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Claravis pretiosa
1 (FPAVE1940RE) song recorded Arroyo Blanco-Las Niñas, Departamento Amambay  (Myriam Velázquez October 2000).
2 (FPAVE1941RE) song recorded Arroyo Blanco-Las Niñas, Departamento Amambay  (Myriam Velázquez October 2000).
3 (FPAVE1942RE) song recorded Reserva Capiibary, Departamento San Pedro  (Myriam Velázquez December 2002).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.