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Russet-crowned Quail-Dove | Zentrygon goldmani
Goldmans kwartelduif | Paloma perdiz de Goldman | Pariri-de-coroa-ruiva
The Russet-crowned Quail-Dove is a terrestrial dove of montane forest in eastern Panama, with a rusty crown and a white throat. The guide area lies at the very edge of its small range; only a few records are known from Colombia.
Voice
A low, hollow whooo, repeated at intervals, similar to that of related quail-doves.
Recording: George Wagner — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · xeno-canto
Identification
27–29 cm, stocky, with a short tail and pink legs. The crown and nape are rusty brown, the face grey with a black malar stripe below the eye and a white throat. The upperparts are warm olive-brown, with a purplish sheen on the mantle. The breast is grey, the belly whitish, the flanks brownish. The sexes are almost alike; juveniles are duller and scaled.
Confusion species
Lined Quail-Dove Zentrygon linearis and White-throated Quail-Dove Zentrygon frenata have a grey crown and live in the Andes, not in the mountains on the Panama border. Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana is smaller and rufous, with a pale stripe below the eye. Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina has a blue-grey crown and a glossy purple nape.
Habitat
Humid montane forest, roughly between 750 and 1600 m. It walks on the forest floor, searching for seeds, fallen fruit and small invertebrates. The nest is a loose platform of twigs, low in the vegetation.
Where the bird is most at home, classified by the vegetation units of the Andes and the west coast.
Range and movements
In the guide area only as a very rare vagrant or edge-of-range bird, with a few records in the extreme north-west of Colombia, in the border area of the Serranía del Darién. Not in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia or the Galápagos. Outside the guide area in the mountains of eastern Panama.
How and when to look
A record is to be expected only in remote montane forest on the Panama border; in the dim undergrowth watch for a walking dove with a rusty crown.
Conservation status
Near Threatened (NT). The range is small and the montane forest is locally affected by logging and the spread of agriculture.
Scientific name
Zentrygon goldmani | (Nelson, 1912)
Nelson described the species in 1912 as Geotrygon goldmani; because it was later moved to another genus, the author and year stand in brackets. The genus Zentrygon was introduced in 2013 by Banks, Weckstein, Remsen & Johnson. The genus name is a blend of the genera Zenaida and Geotrygon; Banks and colleagues (2013) chose it to reflect the relationship with Zenaida and the quail-dove form. The species name honours Edward Alphonso Goldman (1873–1946), an American zoologist with the U.S. Biological Survey and field partner of the describer Edward William Nelson. The specimen the first description was based on came from Cerro Pirre, Darién, Panama.