White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi

White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Tom Bartol, Carlsbad, California, taken in the coastal region of Costa Rica, February 2016.

White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi. Photograph taken in the greater Alamos area, Alamos, Sonora, February 2017. Photograph and  identification courtesy of David F Smith, Alamos, Sonora.

The White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi, is a member of the Columbidae Family of Pigeons and Doves. They are large in stature. In Mexico they are found throughout all of the country at elevations up to 2,700 m (8,850 feet) with the exception that  they are absent from the central northern portions of the central plateau and from Baja California and Baja California Sur. From a conservation perspective the White-tipped Dove is currently considered to be of Least Concern with stable, widely distributed populations. They are found in scrub, woodlands and forests. They consume small insect and seeds that they forage off the ground.