Migration: not a migrant in the true sense, in that individuals are not known to return to breeding or wintering grounds. Breeding: nest is a flimsy construction of twigs placed in trees, particularly palm trees, but occasionally on manmade structures normally 2 white eggs, occasionally more 3 to 6 broods a year from the same nest. Its westward expansion follows a similar expansion from its original range in Asia all the way to the Atlantic coast of Europe. The population is anticipated to increase and spread northward into Canada. It was quickly established there, then spread westward in the 1990s, and it has now reached the Pacific coast. VoiceĬall: a monotonous repeated, trisyllabic kuk-koooo-kook, slightly nasal, with the emphasis on the middle note also a harsher kwurrr sometimes given in flight.Ī Eurasian species introduced to the Bahamas, which spread to Florida in the late 1970s.
The ringed turtle-dove is smaller, shorter-tailed, and noticeably paler it has far less contrast between the flight feathers and the rest of the wing undertail coverts are white with black at the base of the tail more restricted, and the outer webs of the outer rectrices white. Juvenile: paler buff fringes on feathers of the upperparts black collar obscured or missing. The blackish bill has gray at the base, and the feet are dull reddish. A reddish brown iris borders narrow grayish-white orbital skin. This black includes the outer webs of the outer rectrices, and the tail has a broad, pale buff-gray terminal band. A dark gray tail has obvious black at the base when seen from below the black extends beyond the undertail coverts. The underparts are a paler buff-gray merging into gray on the undertail coverts. The primaries are noticeably darker than the rest of the wing, appearing blackish the secondaries are gray and contrast with the blackish primaries and the brown wing coverts in flight. Adult male: the head is an unmarked, pale buff-gray, while the upperparts are a darker buff-brown, tinged gray a conspicuous black collar can be seen on the hind neck. There is also a naturally occurring cream-colored variant, and this species is known to hybridize with the ringed turtle-dove, so plumage variation will occur. Length 12.5".Ī large, pale gray-buff dove with a black collar, noticeably larger than the mourning dove. It flaps on broad wings, and often soars briefly, with wings extended slightly above horizontal as it seemingly floats down to a landing.
A fairly recent arrival to North America, this large pale dove can now be found across the United States.
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