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Collared Doves

Collared Dove - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

How many notes in a call?

Collared Doves make a three-note call. “Coo-COO-Coo”. Woodpigeons make a lower pitched, more gravelly five-note call. “Coo-COO-Coo Coo-Coo” Neither of them are …

Collared Dove - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Streptopelia decaocto

There’s a Collared Dove cooing in the garden. Coo-COO-Coo. Again and again. Those three syllables again and again. Coo-COO-Coo. The Collared Dove’s …

Collared Dove - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Collared Dove

We were standing underneath a Long-Eared Owl roost in Italy, inspecting owl pellets, when a Collared Dove flew past. I couldn’t resist …

Collared Dove - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Collared

I don’t know why, but I’ve never got close to a Collared Dove. Not in Devon, not in Italy, not in Orkney. …

Collared Dove - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Collared Doves

There are a million pairs of Collared Doves in the UK, which is remarkable because there weren’t any in the country in …