The Eurasian collared dove is considered a pest in agricultural areas, but at least they’re not attacking boaters every year. More information on both of these birds is available below.

A more recent arrival is the Eurasian collared-dove. In the 1800s, they lived from Turkey to China, but spread across Europe in the 20th century.

And Eurasian doves are about 30% larger (not a scientific number) than our mourning doves. But regardless, let’s get into today’s article.

A Eurasian collared dove in flight. The slow descent into cooler temperatures as fall approaches means it's also the beginning of dove season for many North Texas hunters.

As I passed the kitchen window the other day, I glanced at our bird feeder. I was startled to see a pair of birds slightly larger than the normal visitors.

I heard them before I saw them, their halting cooing distinguishing them from regular morning doves. Eurasian collard doves were calling from somewhere in the trees up on the high ...

The Eurasian collared doves come year-round in small, boisterous flocks, dispersing the smaller birds and overtaking our feeders. We’ve become the bouncers with our BB gun, trying to manage the ...

In Arkansas, mourning dove is our predominant species, but we also have white-winged doves and Eurasian collared doves. Mourning doves are small and sleek, with gray plumage and buff-colored bellies.

An introduced species to North America, the Eurasian Collared-Dove established a beach head in Florida in the 1970s. From there, they began an era of westward expansion, similar to human ...

Psst—learn how to identify the white-winged dove and Eurasian collared-dove. “Most interesting, the oldest recorded mourning dove was shot in Florida in 1998, but banded in Georgia in 1968.

Dove that is spotted on a warm Saturday morning in Freeman. The large pale dove is marked with a black crescent on the nape ...