page_title: List of birds of Brazil
section_title: Pigeons
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Brazil / Pigeons
context_page_description: Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world. The avifauna of Brazil include a total of 1823 confirmed species of which 238 are endemic. Five have been introduced by humans, 78 are rare or vagrants, and four are extinct or extirpated. An additional 21 species are hypothetical.
  Brazil hosts about 60% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing almost every year, due to new occurrences, new species being described, or splits of existing species. About 10% of the bird species found in Brazil are, nonetheless, threatened.
  In June 2013 a simultaneous discovery of fifteen bird species in Brazil was announced, the first such since 1871, when August von Pelzeln described forty new species. The birds were from the families Corvidae, Thamnophilidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Tyrannidae, and Polioptilidae. Eleven of the new species are endemics of Brazil and four also inhabit Peru and Bolivia.
  Except as an entry is cited otherwise, the list of species is that of the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. The list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are also those of the SACC.
context_section_description: Order: Columbiformes   Family: Columbidae
  Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
  Rock pigeon, Columba livia (I)
  Scaled pigeon, Patagioenas speciosa
  Picazuro pigeon, Patagioenas picazuro
  Spot-winged pigeon, Patagioenas maculosa
  Band-tailed pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata
  Pale-vented pigeon, Patagioenas cayennensis
  Plumbeous pigeon, Patagioenas plumbea
  Ruddy pigeon, Patagioenas subvinacea
  Sapphire quail-dove, Geotrygon saphirina
  Ruddy quail-dove, Geotrygon montana
  Violaceous quail-dove, Geotrygon violacea
  White-tipped dove, Leptotila verreauxi
  Gray-fronted dove, Leptotila rufaxilla
  Eared dove, Zenaida auriculata
  Blue ground dove, Claravis pretiosa
  Long-tailed ground dove, Uropelia campestris
  Purple-winged ground dove, Paraclaravis geoffroyi (critically endangered)
  Common ground dove, Columbina passerina
  Plain-breasted ground dove, Columbina minuta
  Ruddy ground dove, Columbina talpacoti
  Scaled dove, Columbina squammata
  Picui ground dove, Columbina picui
  Blue-eyed ground dove, Columbina cyanopis (E) (critically endangered)
caption: Band-tailed pigeon
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