collared dove

[turlough]

Until just a couple of years ago I wasn't aware we even had Collared Doves (Streptopelia decaocto) in Sweden but since then I've learned they started to appear here in the late 40s and can now be found in many cities and towns in the southern half of the country. Apparently also in my little town and on my walk earlier today I managed to get this really nice photo of one of them:

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Comments

[angrboda]

We see them daily around the feeder in the garden. (Denmark) There are usually two and we have noticed that if a third shows up, the others will chase it away, so we strongly suspect that it's the same two individuals we see.

[weird]

How pretty! I do love doves :)

[yourlibrarian]

Nice pic!

[cmcmck]

They are common in our corner of the UK (Shropshire) and I always get mighty amused by how this bird will chase wood pigeons off and they are twice their size!

Lovely pic.

[rodo]

The showed up where I live about twenty years ago, which is when I learned that they've been slowly making their way northwest for a while now. They're so pretty, and they usually hang out in pairs.

[shirebound]

What a lovely bird!

[blackcatofmisery]

I honestly never knew there were so many varieties of doves until recently. This one looks lovely, a perfect shot between leaves and branches.

=^..^=~

[pameladean]

Oh, that's great, just a slight suggestion of the clerical. We get mourning doves, but (fortunately) the more people who let their cats outside, the more likely the doves are to decamp very quickly. I can still hear them calling in the evening.

P.

[miscellaneous_section]

What a lovely dove. :D

We have mourning doves where I live, and at my parents house there's a nest above the front door with a couple and their babies. So far they have been doing well.

[pauraque]

Nice shot! These have been introduced to much of the US (where we call them Eurasian Collared Doves) but often go unnoticed because they look similar to our native Mourning Doves. I've seen and heard them in California but I don't think they've made it to New England.

[turlough]

How cool that you have such lovely birds visiting your feeder. I wonder if this one is nesting somewhere in the area I photographed it because it's exactly the same place I spotted one the summer before last.

[turlough]

I usually only see wood pigeons and while they're kind of fun to look at they're definitely not as pretty as this one.

[turlough]

Thank you! It was an exemplary model, staying perfectly still until I managed to get a good photo :-)

[turlough]

I can imagine that must be a really fun sight! As you say, wood pigeons are not exactly small birds!

[turlough]

I've only seen one of them before and that was in exactly the same area so I suspect we have at least one breeding pair in our tiny town.

[turlough]

It's so sleek and graceful!

[turlough]

I only knew about the common city pigeons and the big clumsy wood pigeons before and had no idea there were other doves in Sweden. It seemed very used to people and not afraid at all which is how I managed to get such a good photo.

[turlough]

It had such an elegant and sleek look. Very different to the usual scruffy city pigeons or big, clumsy wood pigeons which are the doves we usually see here. Mourning doves look very alike to our collared doves.

[turlough]

It's so pretty! Definitely the prettiest kind of dove we have here in Sweden. I suspect this one might belong to a breeding pair that nest in this area because it's exactly the same spot I saw one the summer before last.

[turlough]

Another commenter above mentioned mourning doves so I had to look them up and they do indeed look remarkably similar. I thought the spieces might be related but apparently not.

[kaishin108]

What a gorgeous dove! I haven't seen that type.

[turlough]

It's definitely the prettiest dove I've ever seen! So sleek and elegant.