Photos of a Plain-breasted grounddove, The first one made by Carl Beel in his garden on Kwatta near Paramaribo in September 2008, the second one made by Erik Toorman at the university campus of the Anton de Kom university of Paramaribo, Suriname in 2005. This species of grounddove is less common then the two other small ones, the ruddy and the common ground-dove. Plain-breasted grounddoves are mainly found in wasteland with dense low vegetation around the city, like at the edge of the campus. They build their nests, made of sticks, in shrubs. It is difficult to tell the females apart from the females of the ruddy ground-dove, but the latter are bigger and have a longer tail and a bit more color and the plain-breasted have dull grey-brown on their rump and upper tail coverts (remark of Rasmus Boegh).
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna |  |
| Forests | |
| Mountain forests |  |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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Photos of other doves and pigeons in Suriname
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