Inca Dove
Columbina inca

f6.3 @ 1/6400s, ISO:1250, Nikon D3S w 500mm

\"Inca Dove,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Inca dove is a small New World dove. It ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica; the Inca dove only lives on the Pacific side of Central America. Despite being named after the Inca Empire, this species does not occur in any of the lands that constituted that region. Inca doves are common to abundant within their range and they are expanding their range north and south. They are slender, with a gray-brown body covered in feathers that resemble a scaled pattern. The tail is long and square, edged with white feathers that may flare out in flight. In flight, the underwing is reddish, like other ground doves, and on takeoff, the wings produce a distinctive, quiet rattling noise.

Laguna Seca Ranch, Edinburg, Texas

01/22/2016