Mourning Collared Dove
Streptopelia decipiens
Riverine woodland. A grey-headed, yellow-eyed dove with a black hindcollar.
LC
Not Endemic
Description
Common resident. The only collared dove with a totally grey head and yellow eye with red eye-ring. The call is distinctive, a soft ‘kur-kurr’ repeated once or twice; also a soft, descending ‘kur-r-r-r-r-r-r’. Occurs in mixed woodland adjacent to large rivers, as well as tropical woodland and mopane veld. Has a highly localised distribution, but is common where it occurs.
Quick Facts
Size
30 cm - M
Names
A: Rooioogtortelduif
Ss: Mokuru Wa Leihlosehla
Bird Family
A well-known group of mostly seed-eating, terrestrial (except for the arboreal fruit-feeding pigeons) birds that build flimsy stick platform nests in trees. The distinction between pigeons and doves is ill-defined: larger species tend to be called pigeons, smaller ones doves. Immatures are dull versions of the adults. Many species become very common and tame near human habitation.
Distribution
Gallery
Behaviour
Breeding
Habitat
Occurs in mixed woodland adjacent to large rivers, as well as tropical woodland and mopane veld.
