White-faced Quail-Dove

Zentrygon albifacies (Sclater, PL, 1858)

White-faced Quail-Dove, Zentrygon albifacies, is a bird of humid montane forests and shade coffee plantations in Middle America, from eastern Mexico to Nicaragua. It occurs in scattered parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and north-western Nicaragua, and is placed in the pigeon and dove family. Its most striking feature is the pale face, with a grey crown, cinnamon neck, chestnut upperparts and a bluish violet sheen on the back. The eye is orange to red, the bare skin around it is blue-grey, and the legs and feet are red.

Order

Columbiformes

Family

Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves

Breeding range

Middle America: e Mexico to Nicaragua