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Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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Posted by fabaceae_native (My Page) on Mon, Mar 8, 10 at 11:29
| I have just been researching this species because it is showing up more and more here in Santa Fe, NM. Along with the native white-winged dove, it appears to be expanding its range north very rapidly, and I would say that now it is the most common dove species in lightly populated areas here (in downtown areas the rock dove probably still takes the cake for sheer numbers). All my bird books, some of which are quite recent, show both the white winged and Eurasian collared much farther south (the latter being becoming established in the Caribbean and expanding from there).
It seems that in the winter all of the pale, square-tailed doves I see turn out to be Eurasian collared, while in the summer, many of them turn out to be white-winged. Has anyone else around this latitude noticed a similar pattern? How far north have these two species gotten?
Has anyone out there observed the Eurasian collared doves closely (at feeders, etc.)? Here they seem to be quite cautious, even more so than the mourning doves. |
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RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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| i have had eurasian doves here year around winter or summer. the other doves migrate in winter but the eurasian doves do not leave. I live at 6800 foot elevation near the mountains in southwest Colorado.. around farm feilds especially wheat or oats ect. i see large flocks when the seed is ripe. Here they are mostly ground feeders and eat almost any kind of seeds and nuts and even some table scraps. some of the local birders say they do move down into the canyons and sagebrush flats during the worst of winter but i have some that show up daily regardless of weather. |
RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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I live in the West Desert of Utah (80m SE of SLC), and have had a resident flock of Eurasian Collared Doves for the last 4 years. There is about a dozen or more that stay year-round, and I've seen more than to 2 dozen in the yard at once.
I only get a few Mourning Doves now and then, and a White-winged Dove visits 1-2 times a year. |
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| I live in Arvada, northwest of Denver, and have Eurasian collared doves most of the year. Although they feed usually on the ground, a pair will get into a hanging tray feeder - they like safflower seeds as well as other seeds. I think they are so sweet and enjoy watching them. Their call is not an attractive sound but I am used to it. |
RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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| I live in NW GA, and we do not get them here. Mourning Doves are all I see. |
RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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According to Kenn Kaufman's field guide from 2000 "Native to Old World. Became established in Florida in 1980s. Now rapidly expanding range to west & north; has reached New Mexico, Colorado, New York; likely to colonize much of continent." It is still rare here in east TN but localized populations are established & growing.
Susan |
RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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| Awesome, thanks for the all the info... I'm surprised that New York was included as one of the places the dove has spread to, other more recent guides clearly show a dotted range extending northwestward from Florida. If it had made it to NY before 2000, don't you think it would already be common in GA and TN? Anyway, thanks again. |
RE: Eurasian Collared Doves in your area?
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| Just saw a white-winged dove yesterday here in Santa Fe! I was starting to think that I might have been calling some of the Eurasian collareds white-wings from a distance, but now I know for sure that the latter are here by mid March. What I don't know is if they're just coming back up here now, or if they've actually overwintered here. In any event, I look forward to honing my ability to tell these two apart from afar this spring and summer. |
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