COMMON GROUND-DOVE
Colombigallina passerina

 

Common Ground Dove Adults and juvenile Common Ground-Doves at a water hole. Photo by Jeff Wells

Check out this video of a Common Ground-Dove on a nest from Fontein Cave, Arikok National Park, Aruba in November 2011.

A tiny, tan-colored dove with chestnut primaries and scaly-looking head and neck. These birds are commonly seen scooting around the plantings of hotels grounds and in the parking lots of Oranjestad.

 

    Common Ground-Dove nest in cactus. Photo Jeff Wells