Guide to North American Birds
Family Pigeons and Doves
Quail-Doves are shy inhabitants of the forest floor in tropical regions, related to other doves and pigeons but as round-bodied as quail. This species is found almost throughout the American tropics; it has strayed to southern Florida several times and to southern Texas at least once.

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Text © Kenn Kaufman, adapted from
Lives of North American Birds

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