Eurasian Collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto) | Details

Eurasian Collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto

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Taxonomy

Taxonomic note

Streptopelia decaocto and S. xanthocycla (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously lumped as S. decaocto following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2019	Least Concern
2018	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2014	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	213,000,000 km²	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	40000000-75000000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2012
Population trend	increasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	5.3 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The European population is estimated at 7.9-14.3 million pairs, which equates to 15.8-28.6 million mature individuals or c. 24-43 million individuals (BirdLife International 2015). Europe forms c. 40% of the global range, so a preliminary estimate of the global population size is 60-110 million individuals, which roughly equates to 40-75 million mature individuals. Further validation of this estimate is needed.

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be increasing as ongoing habitat degradation is creating new areas of suitable habitat. In Europe, the population is estimated to have undergone a modest increase between 1980 and 2013 (EBCC 2015).

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Afghanistan	extant	native		yes
Albania	extant	native		yes
Anguilla (to UK)	extant	vagrant			yes
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	introduced
Austria	extant	native	yes
Azerbaijan	extant	native	yes
Bahamas	extant	introduced
Bahrain	extant	native	yes
Bangladesh	extant	native		yes
Belarus	extant	native	yes
Belgium	extant	native	yes
Belize	extant	introduced
Bhutan	extant	native		yes
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (to Netherlands)	extant	introduced
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	native		yes
Bulgaria	extant	native	yes
Cape Verde	extant	introduced	yes
Cayman Islands (to UK)	extant	introduced
China (mainland)	extant	native		yes
Croatia	extant	native	yes
Cuba	extant	introduced
Curaçao (to Netherlands)	extant	introduced
Cyprus	extant	native	yes
Czechia	extant	native	yes
Denmark	extant	native	yes
Dominica	extant	introduced
Egypt	extant	native
Estonia	extant	native	yes
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	native	yes
Finland	extant	native	yes
France	extant	native	yes
Georgia	extant	native		yes
Germany	extant	native	yes			yes
Greece	extant	native	yes
Grenada	extant	uncertain
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	introduced
Hungary	extant	native	yes
Iceland	extant	native		yes
India	extant	native		yes
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native	yes
Iraq	extant	native	yes
Ireland	extant	native	yes
Israel	extant	native		yes
Italy	extant	native	yes
Japan	extant	introduced		yes
Jordan	extant	native	yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kuwait	extant	native	yes			yes
Kyrgyzstan	extant	native	yes
Latvia	extant	native	yes
Lebanon	extant	native	yes
Liechtenstein	extant	native	yes
Lithuania	extant	native	yes
Luxembourg	extant	native	yes
Malta	extant	vagrant
Martinique (to France)	extant	introduced
Mexico	extant	introduced
Moldova	extant	native	yes
Monaco	extant	native		yes
Montenegro	extant	native		yes
Montserrat (to UK)	extant	introduced
Morocco	extant	native
Nepal	extant	native		yes
Netherlands	extant	native	yes
North Korea	extant	native		yes
North Macedonia	extant	native	yes
Norway	extant	native		yes
Oman	extant	native	yes			yes
Pakistan	extant	native		yes
Palestine	extant	native
Poland	extant	native		yes
Portugal	extant	native	yes
Qatar	extant	native	yes
Romania	extant	native	yes
Russia	extant	native	yes	yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native	yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
Saudi Arabia	extant	native	yes
Serbia	extant	native		yes
Sint Maarten (to Netherlands)	extant	introduced
Slovakia	extant	native	yes
Slovenia	extant	native	yes
South Korea	extant	native		yes
Spain	extant	native	yes
Sri Lanka	extant	native		yes
St Kitts and Nevis	extant	introduced
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	extant	native		yes
Sweden	extant	native	yes
Switzerland	extant	native	yes
Syria	extant	native	yes			yes
Tajikistan	extant	native	yes
Tunisia	extant	vagrant
Türkiye	extant	native	yes
Turkmenistan	extant	native		yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	extant	introduced
Ukraine	extant	native	yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	native	yes
United Kingdom	extant	native	yes
USA	extant	introduced		yes
Uzbekistan	extant	native
Yemen	extant	vagrant			yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Urban Areas	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Urban Areas	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Boreal	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Boreal	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Temperate	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Temperate	suitable	non-breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Utilisation

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence, national
Pets/display animals, horticulture	subsistence, national
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	subsistence, national

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Eurasian Collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/eurasian-collared-dove-streptopelia-decaocto on 27/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 27/12/2024.