Birding in BC Community

We recently received two recent reports of Eurasian Collared Doves in BC.

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4054 - Grand Forks
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4030 - Smithers Area

Does anyone know the status of this bird, how it may be expanding into BC?

Cheers,

Kevin

EC doves are becoming a lot more frequent in the Boundary Bay area although there has been some question as to whether or not they are escapees or actual migrants.

I live in Kamloops and we had Eurasian Collared Doves for the first time on our Christmas bird count this year. There has been sightings around town and in outlining areas recently.

Thanks Guy, appreciate the update!

I have seen them in Boundary quite a bit as well, Cloverdale & Langley also.

There's a theory saying that a pet store owner in the Bahamas had ordered ringed turtle doves for his business, and that all or some of the birds were collared doves," then "For whatever the reason, those birds were released into the wild.
they arrived in Florida from the Bahamas in 1980, and they have now spread into New England ... and west to Washington state and British Columbia. And they're turning up everywhere in between.
Don't know if it's true or not, but some experts said that their population might be a threat for the population of mourning doves.

Have been very curious about the bird I have been hearing and sometimes seeing around my house for past two weeks. I figured it was some kind of dove. coo COO coo, coo COO coo. I believe it is an Eurasian Collared Dove and he/she seems to be alone. Is it normal for this kind of bird to be alone? At first I thought maybe it had escaped from someone's home and was lonely or at least was calling for some friends. I have never seen this kind of bird in my area of Richmond before.

I see them all over the lower mainland and fraser valley including point roberts in washington. I even saw some in alert bay and sointula.

Cheers

Here are a couple of Collared Doves from a few days ago in Kaslo, BC. They are getting to be found everywhere in the milder climate zones.

They are breeding in North Vancouver as well.

If on Ebird you compare 2010 with 2014 you can see they are many more reports of them, particularly in the interior and north

http://ebird.org/ebird/map/eucdov?neg=t ... 0&eyr=2010

http://ebird.org/ebird/map/eucdov?neg=t ... 4&eyr=2014

Thanks. This one is alone. Seems odd but I hear him/her calling out, natural I suppose, but no friends yet.

They're all over southern Vancouver Island, what shocked me most was finding some in the town of Manning Alberta which is far north. All my guides show their range creeping into Southern Canada but I found 4 very healthy looking individuals in Northern Alberta.

Everybody in Campbell River knows of them,they wake us up each morning at first light!