---
title: "Avoante"
description: "Zenaida auriculata — Aves. The eared dove (Zenaida auriculata) is a New World dove."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/eared-dove
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Avoante

> Zenaida auriculata — Aves. The eared dove (Zenaida auriculata) is a New World dove.

- Scientific name: *Zenaida auriculata*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 40909
- Wikidata: [Q1006452](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1006452)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3439](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3439)

## Names

- en: Eared Dove
- de: Ohrflecktaube
- es: Palomita montera
- fr: Tourterelle oreillarde
- nl: Geoorde treurduif
- pt: Avoante
- pl: Gołębiak plamouchy

## Countries with the most observations

AR (10662), EC (7021), CO (6696), BR (5461), BO (3008), CL (2474), PE (1848), UY (486), AW (292), CW (221), TT (87), PY (79)

## Summary

The eared dove (Zenaida auriculata) is a New World dove. It is a resident breeder throughout South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards. It may be a relatively recent colonist of Tobago and Trinidad. It appears to be partially migratory, its movements driven by food supplies.
It is a close relative of the North American mourning dove. With that species, the Socorro dove, and possibly the Galápagos dove, it forms a superspecies. The latter two are insular offshoots, the Socorro birds from ancestral mourning doves, and the Galápagos ones from…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eared_dove

## Photo

![Avoante](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eared-dove/medium.jpg)

Photo: Diego Carús · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61732626

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eared-dove?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).