Bird Facts: The Eurasian Collared Dove

Facts about the Eurasian Collared Dove, a bird that can be found across much of Europe, Asia and North America. The video looks at the Eurasian Collared Dove's spread through Europe and North America, its size and weight, diet, appearance, nest construction and breeding cycle. The video includes audio of the Collared Dove's distinctive three note call.
The bird singing loudly at 1:47 is a Cetti's Warbler. Like the Eurasian Collared Dove, the Cetti's Warbler is another relatively recent arrival to the UK, first breeding here in 1972.
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[@MultiSpongeCake]

This one of a kind call is balm to the soul. I used to hear these birds sing a lot in my childhood. Now every time I hear these sounds, the inestimable feeling of nostalgia hits me so hard. Thanks a lot for the video!

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thanks for your lovely comment, I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@Mjester12]

Balm to the soul my ass, these fuckers wake you up at an ungodly hour with their consistent loud ass "thirsting for pussy" cooing.

[@jennyhunter9346]

This is just how I think about them.

[@iselville]

I just filmed the same dove in my window)) Great footage. I like this bird so much 👍🏼

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you. Yes, they are great birds. Look forward to watching your video!

[@theworldthroughalens5324]

I’ve always been a fan of the Collard Dove. 👍🏽

[@MyBirdingYear]

Me too, a very beautiful bird :)

[@twmax4137]

I love them they are so cute i want one as a pet

[@c.i.n.b4710]

@@twmax4137 i mean theres no law that says you cant hand rear one!

[@Ptitsa-hawk]

After i installed an app abt birds, i am too👍

[@dogofthedesert6642]

These doves are common visitors in my back yard, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They also have a call like a very soft-spoken crow.

[@MyBirdingYear]

That's a neat description of their call. Thanks for watching :)

[@starlsdd6278]

I live in the USA Arkansas. I thought my rescue dove was a ringneck dove. She sounds like the doves you're talkin about. When I got her when she was injured I let her watch KZbin videos of Dove so she would know how to speak dove. She was mauled by three dogs. The woman that brought her to me lives 40 miles away and two adult Dove showed up that day and never left. I've never seen those in the 13 years I've lived here. She learned how to fly after she got her feathers back in my log cabin. It's 20 foot to the ceiling with natural log beams. She let me give her a warm bath and she trusted me intensely. I have cats and dogs and they all got used to her but she learned how to dodge them very fast. I always offered her to go outside after her feathers grew out and she was healed. Her parents are still waiting and calling for her. One day she decided to fly away but she's never left me. I now have 11 doves daily but she's the only one that talks to me. I know she wants to come back in side to visit. I have up for second floor with the window. I think I will make some kind of box out there so she can visit whenever she wants and come in and leave. She sounds like the European collared-dove and not the ring-necked of that I've seen on KZbin. I clap for her outside so she does little flips. I've had a Mockingbird friend for over 13 years that follows me everywhere on the farm. Last spring I befriended a female red bird. I named her red. I never see any other ones around. What's weird is they all sit together on the phone line. It just seems like they know what I'm saying and I understand what their needs are but I've been like this since I was three years old. I thought everybody talk to animals and knew what they were saying. I've been made fun of my whole life and I'm too old to care anymore! My animals are my true friends 100%! Anyway my question was could she be a European collared-dove? There's no doubt in my mind her parents followed that white truck with their baby to my house. They're always together but I don't know who made the eight more doves to the group. There's still 11. Gigi showed me where they all made their nests at. It's on top of a grain bin at a farm right across the street from me. She would call to me all the time until I recognized where she was staying. There is lots of chicken hawks across the road but they don't bother them at all. I'll never understand the need to murder doves!

[@MyBirdingYear]

In the 1970s, Eurasian Collared Doves were introduced into the Bahamas. From there they made their way to Florida and they have since spread across the United States (including Arkansas) and into Mexico and Canada. So if your dove is making that three note call, I think it's probably the case that it is a Eurasian Collared Dove.

[@starlsdd6278]

@@MyBirdingYear thank you so much! I was trying to teach Gigi how to talk ring-necked and she wasn't going to do it. I can't really tell if she's a girl but all I know is her parents waited for her for months until she was well and now we have 11 total. She's the only one that gets close enough to me and talks directly to me. They all talk alike

[@anniemac3075]

I love these birds, we have a pair here every year & it's an absolute delight when they bring their offspring with them to see our garden. Thank you for the lovely video, perfect music.

[@MyBirdingYear]

That's wonderful that the doves bring their young to visit your garden. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video.

[@Speabud3]

This is a very pretty bird, also kind of big! 🐧

[@MyBirdingYear]

Yes very pretty :) Thanks for watching and have a great weekend!

[@kathhyland7544]

I love Eurasian doves ❤️

[@MyBirdingYear]

Yes, a very pretty bird and interesting to watch :)

[@twmax4137]

They’re so cute

[@bluelazyprofileguy1122]

Their so cute 🥰😍

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!.

[@bluelazyprofileguy1122]

@@MyBirdingYear no problem

[@alexjw2k4]

I hear one of these almost every morning because we have a chimney left over from our old fireplace that was filled in, and a dove sits on top of the chimney cooing all morning. 🙂🕊️

[@MyBirdingYear]

Similar thing happens here but it's a wood pigeon in top of the chimney - love how the sound gets amplified as it travels down the chimney 🙂

[@ToToWildlife]

Beautiful, superb filming 👍

[@MyBirdingYear]

Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@JacqJansen]

Beautiful dove. I think they are cute Greetings Jacq

[@MyBirdingYear]

They certainly are! Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

[@BirdsInNatureGarden]

Beautiful footage! Thanks for sharing 😊 take care!🌸🌻

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you very much! You too!

[@theotheseaeagle]

I have a courting pair that I see on my garden fence. I think last year I even saw them mating

[@twmax4137]

They’re so cute!!!!!!!!!

[@2steppa3]

They can also make 2 note sound when doing the dove bowing routine and also a little laughing 'woohoo' sound when finding a nesting site.

[@juliepownall1063]

Pretty dove

[@MyBirdingYear]

Very beautiful!

[@briankelly6432]

Very peaceful

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lasfera2226]

Thank you for the Video

[@MyBirdingYear]

You're welcome, thanks for watching

[@OldSkoolWax]

These guys always look so elegant in flight to me, and when they glide they remind me of the flying boats of world war two like the Short Sunderland. Their wings seem te be above their body

[@MyBirdingYear]

I must admit had to search for a picture of a Short Sutherland - and I see exactly what you mean about the wing position in the two.

[@briankelly6432]

Very pretty indeed

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching

[@VideoNatur]

Wonderfull fooage of the Collared Dove! Thanks for sharing!!! Greetings, Rolf

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you Rolf, glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@jesadaozaki7705]

Cute dove ❤️

[@dinakay330]

I have seen 3 different sizes of these in Arizona, the smallest has some red coloring to the inside of the Wing, very nice and calming to hear.

[@flavietto9973]

So cute 😊😊😊😊😊

[@elijr1025]

Nature is so Beautiful I think I’m going to cry

I love these birds they are so cute and they got so much common sense. Where I live there's this "couple" of collared doves coming always to eat. They got used with my routine and somehow my routine became theirs because as soon as I wake up they see me or hear me and they come. I smoke my cigar and drink my coffee they eat and drink water next to me we are a familly hahaha. On the contrary, the pigeons when they come they make such a mess they are so savage. Doves always seems to be more gentle and, funny thing, they never poop on my things, pigeons as soon as they come to eat first they poop then eat and make a mess. :))

[@susancouderc359]

Great video😊 I live in the south of France and we have a couple of these doves who are nesting right now above our balcony in the city 😊 it's wonderful! They're so quiet now waiting to lay the eggs or for the chicks to hatch. It's funny their nest is a mess and i've found out that that is normal lol

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Lovely video Friend! Thank you for sharing it with us!💖👌👍😎JP

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you, appreciate your comment JP :)

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Your very welcome Friend! Have a wonderful week my Friend!😎

[@Gimmer3]

I will always associate them with Scotland. I loved waking up to their call in my friends garden.

[@dingbat3440]

I travel to Arizona for family every now and then and I see and hear these birds. Until now I got these confused with a Mourning Dove subspecies that just evolved an alternate call in comparison.

[@AmazingNatureRelaxation]

🌺 The adaptability of these birds really amazes me. I have a 15-year-old Sibley that said they were not endemic to Montana but they were in my backyard. I checked a more current source and found out how quickly they have spread. It would be fascinating to me to see what would happen if they could re-vive passenger pigeons. - Henry

[@MyBirdingYear]

Yes, they've spread across much of Europe and the United States in just a few decades. Agree about the Passenger Pigeons - it would be really interesting to see what happens. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

[@Bran4901]

@@MyBirdingYear In other words, they're an invasive species. We didn't have them here in my part of Oregon until 15 years ago and now there everywhere here. Outside our house we have bald eagles, grouse, wild turkeys, rufus hummingbirds, scrub jays, lesser goldfinches, house finches, waxwings (not sure which kind), chestnut-backed chickadee, great blue herons which stalk our creek behind us, just to name a few. In my opinion, they don't belong here.

[@MarkSmith-js2pu]

@@Bran4901 yes invasive species, but that doesn’t always mean bad news. If they wreck your ecosystem, then you have a concern, sounds like you have have a nice situation though.

[@skyt3265]

I live in western Montana and we have them. I think they’re lovely

[@BuscandoFauna]

Muy linda paloma, es parecida a la Torcaza común (Zenaida auriculata) de Argentina. Excelente video. Saludos

[@MyBirdingYear]

Gracias. No estaba familiarizado con el Torcaza común, así que busqué en Google. ¡Siempre es bueno aprender sobre nuevas aves! Gracias por ver :)

[@peigtheleg]

Had one feeding on my bird table yesterday.

[@MyBirdingYear]

That's great. They visit my garden every now and again - it's always great to see them.

[@TheBuenoWorldDrone]

It's So real nature. I'm healed. Like.#3.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Have a great weekend :)

[@murat_saltik]

you have good movies. I also liked your intro movie. congrats...

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you, appreciate your comment. Thanks for watching :)

[@amigodeplanta9081]

Beautiful vídeo my friend..Like

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you very much!

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

this is a hefty dove. Normally they are an average size. Anyway you spotted him very well. Thanks for observations.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed watching :)

good video and information, thanks

[@MyBirdingYear]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

[@MarkSmith-js2pu]

I have mourning, white wings and Eurasians. My favorite is the Eurasians. They are bigger and gorgeous.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Yes, they are very beautiful, I love their pinky-grey-buff colour.

[@rottenapple_]

I have a female eurasian collared dove with only one wing, raised her from a fledgling

[@Daniel-wg4sw]

Those birds are like fatter versions of the mourning doves. They coo too much!!

[@MyBirdingYear]

They do coo a lot! Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

[@rupkathasenchantedwindow3317]

Your channel is awesome for bird enthusiasts like us🥳 Thank you 🙂 Can you please explain: How to distinguish a Eurasian Collared Dove from a Collared dove?

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you for your nice comment. As far as I know collared doves and Eurasian collared doves are the same species (Streptopelia decaocto), just known by different names in different places.

[@rupkathasenchantedwindow3317]

Oh,I see!Thanks a lot for your reply!🙂

[@np_photography]

👍👍

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you :)

[@MarioManeriMusica]

very nice upload : )

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@numberfive3185]

It's so calming and peaceful, absolutely beautiful

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching :)

[@whiskeysudsjackwagon8510]

Wait until they have totally moved in, taken over, drove most other birds away or into starvation, and you have to listen to that obnoxious annoying sound from flocks of dozens and dozens of these horrible invaders every minute of daylight. If I could i would trap every last one and feed them to the hogs.

[@BullsEyE1986]

They need to make a video on the differences on the Eurasian Collard Dove vs. Barbary Dove...

[@MrArgoma]

Preciosa la tórtola turca, buena captura 👍. Últimamente la estoy bien por aquí, cerca de casa. Un saludo.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Gracias. Me alegra que las cosas vayan bien. Ten un excelente fin de semana :)

[@MrArgoma]

Gracias, igualmente👍.

[@tudororor]

Since I was 5 I thought these sounds were from owls, of course I got the animal wrong at 5 but I don't know how I sitll believed this was an owl, maybe it got imprinted into my head since i always heard these at my grandpas house? :)

[@MyBirdingYear]

Without seeing the bird, I think the sounds Collared Doves make can easily be mistaken for an owl - they do sound a bit owlish - and I guess, as you say, that stays with you. Thanks for watching and have a great day :)

[@kokorey6275]

Recently saved 2 of these !! The babies fell out of the tree 🥹

[@RasikaMahabal]

beautiful!

[@MyBirdingYear]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching :)

[@afevziguclu]

Lovely birds, ain't them. Thanks for making the video.

[@MyBirdingYear]

They are! Thank you for watching.

[@LeesaDeAndrea]

I'd rather hear the birds than the music. The music is pleasant but it is drowning out the background bird sounds.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you for the feedback. Several people have said similar so I stopped using music a few months back. I have to agree, hearing the bird sounds on their own is much better!

[@jellojello1254]

😍🕊

[@MyBirdingYear]

Thank you :)

[@TinedeJong]

More and more pigeons have arrived in my area -Netherland and many in the city are not so happy with this because when they have washed the car they poop everything again. And they also chase away the small birds here because they also eat their food.

[@karlhaese7183]

Niet zeuren Tine. Ik als ZuidAfrikaner heb ze heel graag. Als kind fokte ik ze

[@TinedeJong]

@@karlhaese7183 Hier zijn er ook die verdwaald zijn en dragen een ring.

[@karlhaese7183]

@@TinedeJong Ik lij af dat je het over NL hebt en niet in ZA, toch?

[@TinedeJong]

@@karlhaese7183 Nederland is correct. Dat is waar ik woon.

[@twmax4137]

My mom thinks they look like flying guinea pigs

[@MyBirdingYear]

Great description :)

[@harveyfleming9572]

collared doves sound like owls

[@hagdribble]

We had two nesting collared doves a few months back . after the chicks fledged I removed the nest and now there is another nesting pair in the eaves. I wonder if its the same two again.

[@MyBirdingYear]

It could well be the same two as they raise several broods a year. If it is, I hope they are as successful as last time.

[@gregzaks6649]

Very difficult to read whie letters on a light background

[@maxmoore8876]

Very hard reading the white text on the backgrounds.

[@Ktt1220]

Hey buddy !! Recently rescued a baby Eurasian collared dove (3 days ago) . It was just about 2 days old when it was rescued . I was shocked to see that baby dove's very own mother was wanting to kill it. She killed one of the baby and was ready to kill the other too. But before she could do that I saw her and rescued the baby. Soo may I plz. Know that-- Is such kind of behaviour common in Eurasian doves that when they continuously keep nesting and get tired of it , they kill their own baby just to get rid of it. And secondly as I rescued it when the baby will grow then Will it be safe to let the baby fly and leave ( meet it's similar species) Or should I keep her with me forever 😊. And yes , thanks for the info. Buddy🤍.

[@starlsdd6278]

My does are still here and will they stay for the winter? I live in America and Northern Arkansas. One is a pet that I rescued but still outside. Her mom and dad is still there plus seven more in their family now. Will they stay and what should I provide for them

[@marcreed3843]

They're in Northern California.

[@MyBirdingYear]

Wow, really extending their range from where they started in the South East.

[@prestons3400]

Great I don’t know if they’re non native because people didn’t bring them here but they flew here themselves

[@Мирвокругнас-г5ш]

Очень красиво снято!

[@MyBirdingYear]

Спасибо!

[@Araien420]

I have it

[@maxcl3474]

the bird is very common in morocco.

[@Araien420]

This sound makes me 😢

[@ابومقتدىالصدرالصدري]

ماذا تقول هذه الطيرة

[@Mk-te5lt]

My cat caught this bird and now it can’t fly and it’s dying in a cardboard box 🥲

[@beavus4129]

Wish mine didn’t fly away

[@whiskeysudsjackwagon8510]

These birds like most other imports are a scourge to the native bird populations. It is rare to see mourning doves at my feeders now that this pest has arrived in my area, i do not like their song either, it sucks compared to a mourning dove. However, they don't taste that bad! Edit.. The game and fish department doesn't recognize them, so there is no season or bag limit, so there's that.

[@onlyjesuscansaveus9953]

John 3:16-17 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 10:9-10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Amen!