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.

Dove that is spotted on a warm Saturday morning in Freeman. The large pale dove is marked with a black crescent on the nape and is native to Eurasia and Northern Africa, and established later ...

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. After a small number of birds escaped from ...

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 pioneers ...

Eurasian collared doves are gray birds, slightly larger than a mourning dove (Zenaida macroura), but with a square tail more like a pigeon. The species can be distinguished by the black crescent ...

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. Dove-hunting season ...

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 ...

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.

State wildlife officials say a virus is killing invasive doves in parts of the Lower Arkansas River Valley. The ongoing die-off is prompting a number of phone calls to Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — A highly lethal virus that spreads easily in some birds is causing a significant die-off of an invasive dove species in the lower Arkansas River valley near La Junta and Rocky ...