Leptotila verreauxi (bird)

Mass: 11.6 g

Diet: frugivore based on dos Anjos and Boçon 1999, Henriques et al. 2003, Ribon et al. 2003, Gareca et al. 2010, and Teles and Dias 2010; frugivore-granivore based on Arteaga and Moya 2002; granivore based on Cueto and Lopez de Casenave 2000, Verea and Solórzano 2001, da Silva et al. 2015, and Sainz-Borgo 2016; granivore-frugivore based on Manhäes and Loures-Ribeiro 2005 and Ramírez-Albores and Navarro-Sigüenza 2011; omnivore based on Feeley 2003

Abundance: 0.09 to 38.14% (median 0.88%)

Latitudinal range: -25.9° to 18.5°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (13), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (6), tropical/subtropical savanna (6), tropical/subtropical wetland (1)

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Found in 26 samples

Belize: Belize Groves Management Company Limited (orange orchard #4)

Bolivia: El Porvenir (birds)

Brazil: São Paulo Metropolitan Area, Fazenda Brejão, Reserva Florestal do Morro Grande, Rio Paraná (cerrado, dry season), Palmas, Uberabinha River, Pontal do Paranapanema, Poconé Municipality, Federal University of Acre, Vermelho River (edge), Vermelho River (interior)

Costa Rica: Finca La Bella, University of Georgia San Luis Research Station, Monteverde

Mexico: Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve (birds), Palenque National Park (control sites), Palenque National Park (unconnected sites), Finca Irlanda (winter 2001)

Panama: Chiva Chiva Road (late shrub), Mamoní Valley

Paraguay: Isla Alta

Peru: Cachil Valley

Venezuela: Cumaná, Instituto de Biología Experimental (wet season)

Size measurements:
161 mmN = 1
134 mmN = 1

See also Leptotila, Leptotila cassinii, Leptotila jamaicensis, Leptotila magalura, Leptotila pallida, Leptotila plumbeiceps, Leptotila rufaxilla, Leptotila sp.