Eurasian collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto

Identification Tips:

• Length: ? inches
• Pale gray head and underparts
• Thin black collar with white upper border
• Gray upperparts
• Dark primaries
• Long, squared tail-undersurface with black base and white tip, uppersurface gray with white outer tips
• Sexes similar
• Established in southern Florida and expanding northward

Similar species:

Ringed Turtle Dove similar and is best separated by its different song. Eurasian Collared Dove has darker primaries, more obvious white in the neck, is larger with a longer tail and has a grayer plumage. Mourning Dove darker with pointed tail and lacks collar.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.