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Chris -- 2025-05-10
collared dove – 445,000 ghits
collard dove – 709 ghits
I realise that the latter could be a typo but it could equally be seen as a dove which is partial to ‘collard greens’, especially as the collar on the dove is only partial and perhaps not particularly notable.
Collard Dove (Stretopelia decaocto)Digital wildlife image of a Collard Dove. ... Collard Dove. (Streptopelia decaocto ). 4426. 4373. Back to Digitalwildlife – Home.
www.digitalwildlife.co.uk/birds/collarddove.htm – 3k – Cached –
Gallery: Collard doveCollard doves, like sparrows, love to eat corn which is left on the bird table by most other species.
www.wildlife-gardening.org.uk/default.a … dove-17… – 14k – Cached
What appears to be a “new” dove migrating its way into the Midwest is actually the Eurasion Collard Dove (aka Ringneck Dove). Named primarily due to the …
midwestsportsmen.blogspot.com/ – 44k – Cached -
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