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Eurasian Collared-Dove

Streptopelia decaocto

476,656Records since 2000
MayPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan46,197
Feb33,878
Mar41,922
Apr53,520
May56,796
Jun43,619
Jul38,467
Aug40,749
Sep35,347
Oct30,811
Nov24,214
Dec29,614

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England31,546
2Norfolk England26,155
3Kent England19,113
4South Ayrshire Scotland15,971
5Suffolk England15,772
6Surrey England13,284
7Essex England11,427
8East Riding of Yorkshire England10,937
9Lincolnshire England10,554
10Cornwall England9,846
11Oxfordshire England9,778
12Highland Scotland6,928
13North Yorkshire England5,954
14Gloucestershire England5,764
15Dorset England5,516
414,897 England44,702 Scotland13,029 Wales3,826 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
476,656
Peak month
May
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Streptopelia decaocto
Also known as
Eurasian Collared Dove
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
115,094
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Streptopelia
Name with authority
Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838)
Described
1838
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q54696 · GBIF 2495696