Red Collared Dove

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When to see the Red Collared Dove

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red Collared Dove

The map shades 21 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates.

About the Red Collared Dove

The red collared dove, also known as the red turtle dove, is a small pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in the tropics of Asia. The male has a blue-grey head and a red-brown body. The female is much plainer, with pale brown plumage similar to that of the larger Eurasian collared dove.

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Easily confused with

European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturThe European turtle dove is smaller and more slender than many other doves. Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquataThe red-eyed dove's pale bluish gray forehead merges into a darker hue on the crown. Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalisThe Oriental dove is very similar in plumage to the Turtle dove.

Side by side: Red Collared Dove vs Ring-necked Dove · Red Collared Dove vs Red-eyed Dove · European Turtle Dove vs Red Collared Dove · Oriental Turtle Dove vs Red Collared Dove