Blue-spotted Wood-dove Turtur afer - some photos and notes

Blue-spotted Wood-dove Turtur afer

Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Kakum National Park, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Ghana and Ethiopia

The Blue-spotted Wood-dove is distributed in tropical Africa from Senegal in the west to Mozambique in the east. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in moister habitats than Black-billed Wood-dove T. abyssinicus such as forest edges, gallery forest and dense woodland.

Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Lake Langano, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image

It is similar to Black-billed Wood-dove but is darker and has a dusky-red bill with a yellow tip.

The song is a series of plaintive hoos.

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