Columbina minuta
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The plain-breasted ground dove (Columbina minuta) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It lacks the scaled appearance to the feathers of the similar and typically more abundant common ground dove. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the plain-breasted ground dove in his six volume Ornithologie based on a specimen that he mistakenly believed had been collected in Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. He used the French name La petite tourterelle brune d'Amérique and the Latin Turtur parvus fuscus americanus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the plain-breasted ground dove which he placed with the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba minuta and cited Brisson's work. The specific name minuta is from the Latin minutus meaning "small"... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palo Verde National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Calakmul Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 9 | Manuel Antonio National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Cabo Blanco Absolute Nature Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 11 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 12 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 13 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 14 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 15 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 16 | Tenorio Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 9 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Plain-breasted Ground-Dove sighting in Palo Verde National Park on a given day, based on 77 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 131st most-seen of the 274 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and August–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Plain-breasted Ground-Dove in Palo Verde National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–July and December–March, the lowest months. Those are among Palo Verde National Park's wettest months, with about 290 mm of rain a month against almost none in February.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Plain-breasted Ground-Dove sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 16 parks where we can rate Plain-breasted Ground-Dove sightings, Palo Verde National Park has the highest daily chance: under 5%. Next come Sierra de la Macarena National Park (Colombia, under 5%) and Henri Pittier National Park (Venezuela, under 5%).
Same genus: Columbina
The closest relatives of the Plain-breasted Ground-Dove that you can see in Palo Verde National Park (genus Columbina, Small Ground Doves) are Inca Dove (about 60%), Common Ground-Dove (about 30%) and Ruddy Ground-Dove (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Plain-breasted Ground-Dove is recorded against all the birds logged in Palo Verde National Park (77 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
