Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Zentrygon
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published May 8, 2014

Diet and Foraging

Diet

There is very little information on the diet of Buff-fronted Quail-Dove. It forages for "fruits, seeds, [and] probably insects" (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Boucard (in Rowley 1878) found the crop of a bird (or birds?) that he collected to be "full of seeds; I am therefore more certain about this kind of food than about insects, although the probabilities are that they eat insects also".

Foraging Behavior

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and G. M. Kirwan (2014). Buff-fronted Quail-Dove (Zentrygon costaricensis), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.bfqdov1.01