Coming soon to a feeder near you: the exotic Eurasian collared-dove. In fact, it may already be there. Ten of them were recorded in San Francisco on the last Audubon Christmas Bird Count. They're well ...

Native to Europe and Asia, Eurasian Collared Doves (Streptopelia decaocto) are pigeon-like birds that are spreading throughout much of the world, including the Carolinas. These unprepossessing, ...

A fairly recent arrival to North America, this large pale dove can now be found across the United States. It flaps on broad wings, and often soars briefly, with wings extended slightly above ...

A burglary in the Bahamas and the threat of a volcano eruption on the island of Guadeloupe set in motion one of the fastest and most widespread invasions of a non-native wildlife species — a bird, in ...

Over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, the Eurasian collared-dove was documented in Vermont for the first time. Homeowners in Norwich near the Connecticut River in central Vermont noticed a large pale ...

There have been some questions raised by hunters about the dove season, which started Sept. 1 and runs through Oct 30. Along with mourning doves the taking of the ever expanding population of Eurasian ...

It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. And it’s being heard much more often these days from the backyards of Denver to the pasture lands around Cortez. It is the ...

A Durango writer meditates on the idea that killing invasive species—like the Eurasian collared dove—might simply be shooting the messenger. The bird is striking: creamy gray body, square-tipped tail ...

When I told Sandi, my wife, that I was going to write about the Eurasian collared dove, she asked why I am so interested in that bird. I guess there are two reasons that I picked this species to write ...

The Eurasian collared-dove is also a bit larger and has a dark ring around the back of the neck, as opposed to the mourning dove’s sweet cheek smudges. Over the past decade, in spite of the invasion ...