They like to build their nests close to, or even in, human habitations. Mourning doves, with their soothing trademark “cooaHOO coo coo” sound, have smudges on their cheeks rather than collars.
They have a dark “collar” on their necks they are chunkier and their tails are squared off rather than pointed like a mourning dove’s. They appear to skip over some areas and settle into others where they can be the bullies of bird feeders.īesides the shrieking sound they make while in flight - likely a warning call or an attention-getter for mating - and their coarse, staccato “kuk KOO kuk” cooing, collared doves can be distinguished from mourning doves in other ways. The birds began hopscotching their way north and west across the country. The shop owner then released the remainder of the approximately 50 doves from his shop. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology relates, under “cool facts” about the birds, that the Eurasian collared dove was loosed on this continent in the 1970s after several of the birds escaped from a pet shop in the Bahamas during a burglary. From there, they got a boat ride to a new world. Some comments taken from bird-watching blogs: “What is wrong with these birds?” “They sound like they are puking.” “They sound like dinosaurs.” “They are the most irritating bird in the world.”Ĭollared doves originated in the Indian subcontinent and migrated to Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fort Collins, with 3,177 collared doves, showed the highest concentration of the birds in the nation last year. They have now populated all 64 counties in Colorado. In the latest Audubon Christmas Bird Count, there were close to 19,000 in the state. The first Eurasian collared dove spotted by ornithologists in Colorado was in Rocky Ford in 1996. “It is noisy and obnoxious,” said William Kaempfer, a vice chancellor and provost at the University of Colorado and one of the state’s pre-eminent birders. It has become so pervasive that some birders worry it might eventually muscle out other species like the common mourning dove. It has invaded Colorado and, besides irritating humans with its noise, it bullies other birds. This bad bird has found its way northwest from the Bahamas and made itself at home across the United States. It is the sound of an avian interloper, the Eurasian collared dove. And it’s being heard much more often these days from the backyards of Denver to the pasture lands around Cortez. It’s an annoying sound, described as a screech, a hiss or a nasally shriek. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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