Leucistic Eurasian Collared Dove

Eurasian collared dove, but one that we have had for a few years is white and pale gray. Much lighter than all the others.

Doves in our yard

Doves in our yard.

A Sad End

A hawk is about to fly off with a 3 or 4 day old Eurasian Collared Dove chick

Almost ready to fly

This is the fifth nesting cycle in this nest this year. There are videos on this site of earlier ones.

Eurasian Collared Dove Nesting Cycle

This video is a series of video clips selected from a nest camera to represent various parts of the nesting cycle from empty nest to flying fledglings. At the beginning some Robins check over the nest site.

Eurasian Collared Dove Nesting Cycle

A series of Still shots and video clips showing empty nest to fledged Eurasian Collared Doves flying. Most include a date and time stamp. Some title cards interspersed.

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Fledgling Collared-Dove

Leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove

This is a leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove. Use this link to learn a little about Leucism and other abnormalitys in birds… https://feederwatch.org/learn/unusual-birds/#color-variants

Leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove

Leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove feeding at salt block.

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Eurasia collared-dove sitting on nest in juniper tree. Interesting that she chose to nest in a great-tailed grackle rookery.

Eurasian Collared Dove

The dove was in a Tucson city park. The park has a pond and is surrounded by desert.