🐾 Eurasian Collared-Dove

Streptopelia decaocto · wildlife atlas entry

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The Eurasian collared dove ( Streptopelia decaocto ), most often simply called the collared dove , also sometimes hyphenated as Eurasian collared-dove , is a species of dove native to warm temperate and subtropical Asia, and introduced in North America in the 1980s. In the latter half of the 20th century the species' native range vastly expanded, and it can now be found from Southeast Asia through to Western Europe. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Streptopelia decaocto
Rank	species
Community observations	178,880 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Columbiformes › family Columbidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Ulica Ivana Lenkovića, Senj, Ličko-senjska, HR
(c) judith_adam, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Norfolk, England, GB
(c) stonecold1664, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · cc-by-nc-nd

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Carrer la Lluna, 49, 46900 Torrent, Valencia, España
(c) Luis Orlando, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-07-30 · Terkos, 34277 Arnavutköy/İstanbul, Турция
(c) Alexander Naumov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · María Auxiliadora, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis., México
(c) Diego Manzano Méndez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Osoyoos, BC, Canada
no rights reserved · cc0

Eurasian Collared-Dove photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Osoyoos, BC, Canada
no rights reserved · cc0

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