Grenada dove
leptotila wellsi latin

Grenada Doves are assumed to be territorial, and current population estimates are based on this assumption.

Grenada Doves also have been recorded from western Grenada (Blockstein 1988, Blockstein and Hardy 1989).

Grenada Doves in the Mount Hartman area have been observed fighting (Blockstein 1988), and other Leptotila species show varying degrees of territorial behaviour (Goodwin 1983).

The Rivera Lugo investigations suggest that Grenada Doves are using a mixture of three seasonal forest formations: semi-evergreen forest, deciduous seasonal forest, and thorn woodlands.

Results from the Grenada Dry Forest Biodiversity Conservation Project indicate that Grenada Doves are found most often in areas composed primarily of degraded mosaics of evergreen forest.

Additionally, preliminary surveys and recent census data indicate Grenada Doves occur in both highly fragmented semi-urban areas and more rural environments composed sometimes of highly contrasting levels of housing and economic development.

Some surveys imply that Grenada Doves are associated with dry forest communities in the west and southwest parts of the main island (Blockstein 1988, Blockstein and Hardy 1989, Bird Life International 2000).

Populations of doves associated with the old golf course below Jean Anglais, in the Richmond Hill Watershed, are under heavy pressure from development for private homes, and are well outside the boundaries of the Mount Hartman Sanctuary as are most Grenada Doves.

Camera surveys of the Mount Hartman area failed to record the presence of Grenada doves there immediately following Hurricane Ivan in 2005 and only eighteen encounters with Grenada doves occurred during April-December 2005.