Leptotila rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard, 1792)

Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Marques de Oliveira, Uéslei, Santos do Nascimento, Sheiliane, Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas & Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, 2021, Preliminary survey of avifauna of the Estação Ecológica do Cuniã in Porto Velho, northern Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 289-310 : 297

Leptotila rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard, 1792)

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Records. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Porto Velho, Estação Ecológica de Cuniã ; first record on 21.IX.2018; captured with mist-nets and banded; plot R18 ; CEMAVE-J49770 .

Identification. This species is 26 cm in length. The back is grayish-brown and the bill is black. The forehead is whitish gray, with the sides of the head and neck ochraceous, and the underparts are brownish. The iris is brown, with red orbital skin.