Things you need to know about COLLARED DOVES!
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- In this video we cover everything you need to know about collared doves. If you enjoy these fact file style videos then be sure to have a look at the other British wildlife fact files over on the channel.
Collared doves are in the top 15 most common garden birds in the UK but that has not always been the case. In fact, they only first started breeding in this country in 1956 when a pair was spotted nesting in North Norfolk. Unlike a lot of recent additions to the UK countryside, collared doves arrived here naturally after spreading across Europe from their original range in Asia.
They are quite small compared to other UK pigeons with a wingspan of just 50 cm and growing to weights of around 200grams. Adults are dark beige with a distinctive black collar around the back of their necks. Young birds and nestlings are a similar colour but they do not have the collar. They also have red eyes and washed out pink feet and legs.
Collared doves will eat a wide range of foods but this is always plant based. This includes buds, shoots, seeds and grains which the bird swallows and stores in a small pouch in their throat known as a crop. From their the food is gradually moved down to the stomach for digestion. This allows them to eat a lot in one sitting and then sustain themselves for a longer period of time than if they were digesting the food as they go. The crops have another purpose too, for producing milk to feed the chicks.
Collared doves can nest throughout the year, creating a small flimsy platform of twigs upon which they lay 2 white eggs. These are around 3 cm long and just over 2cm wide. The parents take turns to incubate them for 16 days with the female taking the day shift and the male incubating them overnight. Their chicks are known as squabs and when they first hatch out they are covered in yellow downy fluff. As mentioned before the parents can produce a special liquid in their crops known as crop milk which they regurgitate for the squabs. This is highly nutritious and helps them to grow fast, sometimes they are fully feathered and ready to leave the nest after just 3 weeks. Once they have left the nest, the parents will feed them for a further 2 weeks and then they are completely independent. The young birds then disperse from the nesting area, sometimes traveling as far as 600km from where they hatched.
There are currently thought to be just under a million pairs of collared doves in the UK but over the last 10 years their numbers seem to be dropping slightly. Its been suggested that this is down to increasing competition for resources with wood pigeons but collared doves are also very susceptible to a parasite called trichomoniasis which if untreated is fatal. If all goes well collared doves can be quite long-lived with several birds recorded as living to 17 years of age.
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Our fam rescued an injured collar dove back in 1992, one day after it got well, we allowed the collar dove go away, and it returned to what the dove knew was his shelter or home while rescued. After a while once again, we let it fly away for a second time, and since it returned and never wanted to go away, we kept it. Today in 2023 it still alive and well. 31 years and counting 🙏🏻🐦❤️ We named it Coly, because of the sound it makes. Likes to talk, it allows us to kiss him, and pet him. We love our Coly! Thanks for the video, so informative. Blessings from USA
If that's the case, the bird needs to be recorded in the book of World records. I am also a 92 baby but 31 for a collared dove would make it 2 years older than the current record
31 years.
Holy God!
That's an honored Elder dove! ❤
That's incredible! So wonderful ❤
That’s so old
I just saved two of them 🥹
I am from the US where they are invasive, but I rescued a little dove that I could not ID. Turns out it was a collared dove. He made a full recovery and we just watched this video together. He enjoyed it.
They're lovely creatures, friendly but also very brave... Since I started working from home, they've almost trained me to feed them. If I appear in the garden they swoop down near me, calling. They flutter around me until I feed them. They chase away wood pigeons. too. I look forward to them each time I'm in the garden.
I recently saved two of them , two of the babies fell out of the tree and I didn’t want the cats around my neighborhood to eat them ☹️ 3 weeks in counting and they are the most lovable creatures 🥹💜
My favourite bird. Often in my garden and such nice personalities. Very calming.
When I was a small kid I'd hear them near my (now gone) grandparents' house. Recently I revisited my old university and a collared dove was right there, coo-ing at me, and I shed a few tears as I'd been thinking about my gran and granddad and my life since childhood at that very moment.
We got them everywhere in Greece, both in the city and in the countryside. They are lovely and they have a very distinctive sound, as a soundtrack to our everyday life.
I do love the sound of a collared dove and wish I had included it in this video to be honest! I make sure I include it in all my more recent bird fact files :)
Same here in Portugal
Seeing those baby collared doves has really brightened my morning! ^^
I’m glad to hear it :)
I love collared doves. They have amusing character and I recently discovered they repel starlings. Every time a startling tries to barge in for some food about 6-9 collared doves stand up to them and send the starlings fleeing. It’s quite comical to watch.
They're such beautiful birds, and it's lovely to see couples preen each other. They're also very common in the United States and where I live (Arizona) due to the release of the birds in the Bahamas back in the 1970s. Very adaptable birds, considering that they thrive in the Sonoran Desert!
Yes, as I type this there is a pair sat in a holly tree outside my window right close to one another. I didnt realise they were in the states, I guess my source must have been out of date.
Collared doves, woodpigeons and goldfinches are about all we get in our garden these days. I learned a few things about collared doves from your video though, that I didn't know before. Very interesting.
I have to say that Goldfinches definitely seem to be on the rise here in Norwich . During the daytime you can hear them pretty much anywhere in the city, which is great of course!
I started feeding a pair when i 1st moved into my flat, i now can whistle if theyre close by and they come for food and water, very smart birds. Funny that you said competition with wood pigeon too as there are 2 wood pigions also that try scare them off
I have a pair of these bird nesting in a small tree outside my front porch right now. I first noticed them when i went to my car to grab some dumbbells and saw one of the bird swooping down with a small twig in it's mouth. It landed on the roof of my house and then gentle flew into the small tree and gave the twig to its partner. The exchange was very graceful and the incubator was almost unnoticeable. It's been five days since this first encounter and I plan on seeing this entire process through to the end. Honestly, its really cool to see how these creatures work so well together in ensuring the survival of thier offsprings
#nationalgeographics#Davidattenborough😴#lovenature😊🙈
I am in California, USA. At my outdoor feeding table for birds, every day there is, I believe the same pair of Eurasian collared doves that I get to watch. I named them, Bonnie and Clyde. I put birdseed and cracked corn out on a table for all the birds, and at least twice a day, Bonnie and Clyde make an appearance and chomp away. I’m glad I found that you have a video on these huge birds. Thank you for all your work and interesting info! I haven’t seen any of their offspring, but now I know what they look like if I ever do 😊😊
I'm in mid-west USA and have been raising two babies that were blown out of a nest from a storm. I've tried so hard to age them and this video really helped! Thanks a bunch!❤
Hi Kenzier8906, I am Lyn from UK now living in Murcia region of Spain for last 5 years. Recently while walking my dog I saw some rubbish in the road and went to clear it, on closer inspection it was a dead collared dove. As I bent to pick it up his eye moved then i noticed his tummy and chest were moving. So I always have some kitchen roll in my pocket when taking the dog out so 2 sheets of paper later I am heading for a seat in the Remembrance Park to see if this baby was going to fly away after a rest. We had a few people come and look to see what we had, most offered info on what to do next, not always positive either.
Anyway, half an hour later he was happily settled in this makeshift hammock I had made for him and was looking around but not attempting to take off. Well to cut a long story short, he is still living with us as it turns out he has a broken wing and had also sustained a large chest wound , presumably from a cat. I wanted to take him to the vet but was strongly advised not to as the bird would probably be euthanised. I cleaned his open chest wounds twice daily and fed him on Canary seed from the local supermarket. It now looks llike his future is to stay with us so I am looking at getting an outdoor enclosure for him. He was so attentive when I played the video and he heard the other birds singing I think he will enjoy it. I will also get him some sunflower seed as in the video. Thank you for reading. Lyn
Lovely video thank you. I have a pair that comes to my garden every day. They are quite elegant in the way they walk and eat.
Thank you!
Yes, and the way they fly is quite “dainty” too. I’m a big fan :)
These birds look so placid and gentle, but the males really fight each other during the mating season and can inflict awful injuries on each other. I always welcome them to my garden and pairs will often sit next to each other for hours on a tree branch like an old married couple on a sofa. When it rains they will sometimes perform a curious ballet with their wings, lifting then to allow the rain to penetrate the feathers beneath. It's quite beautiful to watch. Sadly in the past few years I have had at least five dying just in my garden alone from the trichomonosis parasite. Though none so far this year.
I was born in 1956 and am obscurely proud of this. I love doves.
"The year of the collared dove!"
I’m observing a pair right outside my window. Another pair had already been there and baby has left the nest already. Just saw there is new egg in the nest 🪺. I’m excited.
Thanks for the information.
I see those in my backyard and my neighborhood every single day, They're very cute & pretty.
Loved your presentation. Simple yet so soothing. The video and the history!
They come to my terrace in Dubai. They eat millet, rice, lentils and oats. I wanted to see if they evolve into superbirds if I feed them nutritious organic food, but it's quite a lot of them coming so they're hard to distinguish and track ;)
Once a couple had 🥚🥚 here but abandoned them. No idea why. Maybe they got scared of hooded crows that patrol the area. The eggs disappeared one by one within a few days (there are no cats here).
They’re so beautiful! I found two of them on my patio. 🤗
Beautiful 9ice dove ❤ 👍
Thank you!
Fantastic video, thank you. Beautiful birds, they are regulars in our garden. They know we feed them every morning, they come so close to us, and they know we don't hurt them. Truly beautiful birds.
I find these videos informative but concise too. Good stuff
thx 4 sharing.... I just needet to know more about doves ... they come to visit me on my balocony for many years and I feed them... they mean so much to me... awe
Thanks kindly for the video - this was just what I was looking for. I live in New Zealand and I have a family of them that live in the park across the road and hang around my deck all day so I have started feeding them. They are very friendly and have even started coming into the house. I managed to get one to sit on my finger the other day. They are beautiful and welcome here anytime. I love them.
Such a beautiful video, thanks! I love collared doves so much❤
Thank you!
Another excellent species factoid from the guy who does them best! I'm planning on doing a video about comparing their calls with that of the Woodpigeon but I need to garner some resources first. Keep up the good work mate! :-)
Cheers Graham.
I think the next one is going to be Magpies or House sparrows so keep an eye out for that. I might also have another go at a RUclips Short with footage of the white blackbird but am also considering a second channel for wildlife shorts: "A Short Of Wildlife"....
Good luck with yours. I have an external mic for my camera but its still often very very noisy when I record bird calls.
i love all pigeons
I love collard doves as they show up every March in Northern California 😍😍😍
Love seeing them all the time - North East Oklahoma U.S.A.
We had a family in our balcony in my mint plant few weeks ago and My hubby said the dad stays with the egg in the day time and mom at night. The first day of the second egg hatching the parent didn’t come for the shift and I was scared to have the other parent abandon the baby doves if we take them inside. The other ended dying on the 6’th day. Then we took the remaining baby dove inside and fed it in the afternoon and brought it to the nest during the day so the parent would feed it. It never grew and died after the parent noticed it didn’t want to eat from the him/her. I even prayed so hard so the parents would come back take care of it. I hope we see successful nesting next time.
Im sorry that happened but unfortunately, in nature things need to die for others to survive, whether thats because they provide food or because there is then less competition, it is the sad way of the world :/ Fingers crossed for next time!
they are so adorable and we always get them at my bird feeder🐦🤍
There is so much to these beautiful birds than we think 🤔
So cute!
Interesting information, thank you, they're lovely.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Great vid! 🕊
beautiful birds
Thankyou for your knowledge and sharing it
Brilliant information Liam
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Big thank you Liam..... lots of stuff I didn't know .
Cheers Robert, I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I think they’re beautiful x
love them, thank you, i get loads of them at times in my garden
Thank you. Have you noticed more in the last few years or less?
@@AShotOfWildlife hi, it depends, sometime loads of them come to the garden at the moment there seem to be less, maybe they are busy making nests
Nice. I have several as pets in my aviary and they are awesome.
I've got a pet one and he's the best pet ever!🧡
They make great pets!
Where do you get Eurasian collared dove from, I cant find them any where. I can only find diamond and ring neck doves.
@@LVBT outside on the ground
@@xINVISIGOTHx so your saying to catch wild ones?
@@LVBT yeah the best ones are babies that fall out of nests because they can't fly yet
These birds are everywhere in Greece when we were little children used to give them bread outside churches everything nostalgia
My favorite bird. ❤
Nice video. This days is the collard dove nesting in my garden.
Thank you for your information
Thanks for leaving a comment, im glad you enjoyed the video.
I never saw one until I went to Tenerife. I got a new allotment the week I got back and a pair appeared and come everytime I'm there for seed feed. Its been a fee months and they come right up to my feet now. I reckon I'll have them feeding out of my hand soon, they're so brave and friendly
I have ring necked dove and fancy spotte dove . Very beatifull bird
I live in the US and there are tons of collared sand mourning doves in my yard :)
I believe they pair up for life
Pretty cool birdie...
Cheers!
I love it
Thank you!
Nice video, Greetings from Italy
Hey, thanks!
Collared doves are fun to bully by imitating their call >:) I bullied one at my boyfriend's house. It was flying round and round looking for the source of the call hehe. I felt s little bit mean for catfishing it. I love them though, they're super cute. I like the biiiig stretches they do.
I have about 35 of these that come into my small garden in the west of Ireland every morning, I feed them with wild bird food
Every morning in my backyard I would see like 80-90 of those Doves eating (Pecking the ground). In America (United States) they're called "Ringneck Doves"...
Ringneck doves are domesticated, collard doves are wild. They look very similar
I love Collard doves, I feed pigeons and budgies
Pigeons and budgies is a strange mix, but I have had both as pets in the past.
Great video I’m making a fact file on badgers right now
Cheers. Badgers are on my list for this year but I haven’t managed to film them yet.
We have a pair that nest in the slipway at Devizes marina, the have 3 broods each Yr, 2 each time. We feed them and have got quite tame when feeding them. Walk between your feet ect. 5th year now of nesting here. 😁👌👍🏴
Cool I have those doves
There used to be many in Greater London about 15 years ago but are all gone.
They're abundant in Fuerteventura, especially Caleta.
Lovely video Liam. Thank you! Are you planning to do a film about stock doves and turtle doves?
Thank you! I am planning to do a video about pretty much every bird but am currently limited by what I have been able to film myself or by what footage I can get from other free sources. I havent looked yet but I suspect stock doves may be do-able in the near future but Turtle doves may be a bit of a difficult one to get footage for for the time being at least.
Cheers!
@@AShotOfWildlife that's lovey 😊 really looking forward to them!
There is a well-known colony of Eurasian Collared-Doves on Harkers Island on the coast of North Carolina, and the species is also found at scattered inland locations. The island colony population has leveled off just a bit due to Cooper's Hawk predation, but I almost always see a Collared-Dove every time I go to the island.
Eurasian Collared-Dove is an established species in most of the US and is recognized by the ABA as well.
Thank You sooooo much for your extremely informative video...we've ,just this year had 3 move into our 5 acre yard...& I've been Googling to find out all I can & so Sir, Thank You ever so for your video.Soo Very sorry to hear about the passing of Prince Phillip....God Save The Queen & Bless her in her sorrow...Amen
A pair turned up on my Bird Table seven years ago we now have ten or twelve I have a great shot of them feeding, a tip for all Gardeners an old Hanging Basket upside down on top of a Bird Table gives protection from cats and it works well I am feeding five cats as the R.S.P.C.A. are full at the moment with unwanted pets down to the cost of living problem soon we will need a "pet food bank"...
i live in south wales and i have a pair of collared doves i feed in my garden xxx
Wanted to hear their calls...but think you covered most all else!
Good❤
Have pair of these nesting on one of the houses behind us on top of their Satellite Dish. Watch them daily.
Yes, satellite dish brackets do seem to be a favourite nesting site, we have some that are currently looking the one next door. I wonder if it is slightly warmer there with the heat from the house.
Started seeing one recently around my garden. Never seen one before.
Cool. We seem to see less of them.this way in recent years.
@@AShotOfWildlife started researching after a visit again less than an hr ago, gorgeous bird. 💖
@@vickie5706 well I'm glad you found this video and I hope it was helpful.
I am very fortunate to have a pair of Collared Doves nesting in a chestnut behind my house. For a week though I was only seeing one. I thought the mate was gone but yesterday she? came back. Do you know if she laying and brooding? Would they both be out together already?
I've got a breeding pair as pets. They're remarkably low maintenance and calm, but they can be messy! 😄
I’d have converted one of my sheds into an emergency aviary if I wasn’t talking into leaving the one we rescued from a cat, to be euthanised, he looked so healthy and full of life despite his injuries and😮 considering what he went through, I’m never going to trust a vet again 💔
Great videos, thank you. I was told that Collared Doves pair up for life, but I’m not sure if it’s true or not?
What a nice video, so much facts in a short time short and easy to understand.
I have a question about this bird.
Neozoa are in general not good for and ecosystem.
But, are collarad doves Neozoa?
On one hand they came without direct influence of people to us.
On the other hand, i have heard that they came along railroads to us?
And apart from the question, if they are real neozoa: do they have any negative input for the ecosystem.
Especally for Otter doves?
PS they one of my favourite birds
PS 2.0 i am not a native speaker, sorry for my grammar
Song and sounds they make... :-)
Thanks Thys :) I regret that I didnt include the bird calls in the first few bird fact files I made. I include it in all my recent bird fact files and one day I will release a video about just bird calls and include the collared dove. Cheers, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you!
I have a couple of these come to my balcony while I'm working, so I put out some food and water bowls. One of them often starts pecking the window while looking at me - is this defensive or is it a sign that it's gradually getting comfortable with my presence?
Haven't seen one of them in a while actually, I wonder if they have babies somewhere.
Thank you I was wondering what to feed my lil man other than seeds
Thanks, very interesting, perhaps the sound of the collared dove?
Thanks Madeleine :) Yes, its a regret of mine that I didnt include the bird calls in the first few bird fact files I made. I do include it in all my recent bird fact files and one day I will release a video about just bird calls and include the collared dove. Cheers, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you!
Lovely thank you
Me gustan esas palomas
thank you for the video we have a pair of doves with 2 eggs in our tree in the garden, the only thing is we have a Sparrow hawk keeps appearing now and then, also a Cat.
After collared doves had nested in our gardens, wood pigeons took over their nest!
I guess they must have picked a good spot and the wood pigeons, being much bigger, we're the inevitable winners.
They tend to favor inhabiting places where grain is stored or on the ground. I have a pair here where I think its the gravel that they like.
Thank you for this video, very interesting. I have 2 pairs for doves in my garden and 1 one on their own, I feel rather sad as the pairs of doves are always pecking it and stopping it eating, is this normal ? 🇬🇧❤️
Hi, Thanks for the information. This is my favourite bird. Is it true that they mate for life. It’s a really nice thought. Once again. Thanks. Regards. Ted
Hello I just found your videos have you covered the Jay yet ? I will keep watching I have always had a interest in bird species
Hello and welcome to the channel! I have indeed covered the jay, but I'm responding from my phone so it's complicated to get you the link. If you type in "things you need to know about Jays" I suspect it'll be the top choice. Cheers
@@AShotOfWildlife Yes thanks i found the Jay episode we used to get a lot passing through in my mums garden back in london as well as Magpies Robins and all kinds appreciate your reply .
@@leemuswhite6377 you're welcome. I try to respond to everyone (and one day I will go back and catch up) but getting a comment every 15 minutes across the channel makes it hard work to keep up with - alongside making videos and working a full time job. Thanks for watching.
Thanks Liam for sharing the Collared doves facts! Have a nice weekend! // Bertil.
these lovely birds could be also surprisingly long lived, one in captivity are reported to live up to 15-20 years
Yes, I was doing some research earlier and found a record of one living to 29 years!
I see these in southern Spain!
We have both collared doves and starlings here in SoCal(USA) and they appear to ignore one another. I have seen the local collared doves bully sparrows and one another for food. It's not that much drama bcuz they are just so gentle and often wait to feed after the other birds. I'm going to watch closer to see the interaction with starlings. Both breeds are clowns.
Birdwatching can be and is some of thee best comedy, sometimes wonder what they think of human foibles...they do watch us too, y'know. 🎭
We live in France and have loads of the ring necked doves in the garden who compete with the smaller birds for food. We just feed wild bird seed but would be interested if we could feed them something that the smaller birds don't eat. Can we feed them porridge oats, corn kernals and wheat? Thank you for your help
I didn't know the males egg sat at night. I have their domestic counterparts, the ringneck, and the mother sits atop the eggs at night.
I have a couple in my tree here in Canada, Babies are going to leave the nest in the next day or 2 wondering if mom and dad will reuse this nest or will they move on and build anew elsewhere
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We've got lots of them in Florida and I swear, the breed is getting larger on average as time goes on. Ten years ago they were barely bigger than Mourning Doves. Today, it's not unusual to find larger examples that are easily twice the mass of an adult Mourning Dove, with 50 percen greater wingspan and standing height. I'd know, I handle wild caught birds frequently. (And release them unharmed.)
thank you very much ....i feed two doves every day ..I'm from Iran ...i really enjoy from feeding doves..but I think they can live 7 years