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Yungas Dove
Leptotila megalura Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1879
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Yungas Dove, Leptotila megalura, is a pigeon in the Columbidae family that breeds in Bolivia and north-west Argentina. It was described by Sclater, PL and Salvin in 1879. It lives on the eastern Andean slopes in the Yungas, where it uses humid subtropical and tropical woodland, including secondary growth, and also semi-arid Prosopis woodland. The species is monotypic, though the southern population has at times been treated separately. It is also linked as a sister species to the grey-fronted dove.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- South America: Bolivia and nw Argentina
