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The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You!

10,000 Birds

In the mid-1970s, a local breeder was burglarized and a few of his birds escaped, after which the breeder released his remaining stock of about 50 birds 1. The northwestern spread of this non-native species made it to my yard a few years ago. This first map is data from 2002 through 2003.

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