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Eurasian Collared-Doves
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Eurasian Collared-Doves
- From: Burnetted@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:06:00 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Lynn and I just returned from 3 weeks in Denmark where we did a half
culture/half birding trip. (We missed the main spring migration, but got 107
species anyway, thank you!) I was impressed by the number of Eurasian
Collared-Doves we saw. (They call them "Turkish" doves there - in Danish, of
course.) We also saw the species during our few days in the Nottingham,
England area on the way to Denmark.
I'm noting this here because of the interest in the species in the Carolinas.
It seems to be following the same pattern here in North America as it did in
Europe. Eurasian Collared-Doves reportedly expanded into Northern and
Western Europe in the 1950s and now are quite common. Common in towns and
around farms, that is, because it rarely is found in wild places. It seems to
prefer the urban spaces occupied by another abundant species, humans.
Just think, before long you may be able to sit on a bench in the capital
grounds in Raleigh or Columbia and add a fourth abundant bird species to your
park list of feral pigeons (Rock Doves), House Sparrows, and Starlings.
Dennis Burnette
Greensboro, NC
burnetted@aol.com