Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Eur. Collared-Dove bonanza
Date: Oct 15 22:29:01 2009
From: Hans-Joachim Feddern - thefedderns at gmail.com


I agree with Scott's assessment that the European Collared Dove prefers
suburban habitat. We visited my wife's family in Troon, Scotland in
September and I found them quite common to abundant. They were not present
during our last visit only three years ago. They were quite tame at my
brother-in-laws neighbors feeders. It certainly is more common then the much
larger Wood Pigeon. It started expanding its range from the Middle East some
years ago and now has reached Scotland and who knows, maybe even the
Shetlands. It would appear that the same population dynamics apply here in
North America and only time will tell, before the reach Alaska!

Good Birding!

Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, Wa.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Scott Atkinson <scottratkinson at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> Tweeters:
>
> It does seem like Eur. Collared-Doves seem to prefer sites that Mourning
> Doves also use or have used. This seems true for the Skagit and
> Snohomish County strongholds that Wayne mentioned, and also for those at the
> Sequim colony. But I'm not convinced that the Eur. Collared-Doves
> have negatively affected Mourning Dove populations. It is also worth
> noting that the Eur. Collareds prefer agricultural or suburban habitats.
> While travelling in the Gulf Coast region extensively 2003-2006, I noted
> that Eur. Collared-Doves were quite common in many towns and regions, but
> MDoves also seemed quite abundant still.
>
> Scott Atkinson
> Lake Stevens
> mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
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