Stray dove? UK (1 Viewer)

[Paul Collins]

Hello,

I've just seen a collared dove at the end of my garden. I live in Dulwich in London, and have never ever seen one in the area. Furthermore, I have never seen one anywhere in London, having lived here for 10 years. I thought that they lived in the countryside, maybe an hour or two's drive from London.

Is this an unusual/rare sighting for London?

 

[luke]

i wouldn't think they were that unusual in london, but dont live there and have never birded there, but i get doves in the garden daily and so do a few other i know who live in the middle of towns (not a city i know, but not the countryside)

 

[IanF]

I don't know about in London but in my area they're a regular garden bird. We get the odd pigeon as well but it's mostly Collared Doves were see.

 

[TomSmith]

They are common in London (at least at my end) but very localised - they're regulars at the other end of my road, for instance, but I've only ever seen 1 in the garden.

 

[aeshna5]

They are quite common in the suburbs in places. I get a few in my Greenford garden + I see plenty in Walpole Park by Ealing Broadway, yet I've never seen one in Kew Gardens (I visit several times a year) a mile or 2 to the south, where there would be plenty of suitable habitat.

They are scarce in inner London where they are usually flyovers!

 

[Chriswilko]

Hi,

Common both where I live in Kingston-upon-Thames and in Dartford where I work. They do however, become rarer the closer you get to Central London.

Cheers.

 

[Indiana]

Sorry I have (probably OT) question - what is latin name - of stray dove.

thank You

 

[Cudyll Bach]

Streptopelia decaocto

 

[Chris langsdon]

Common in all parts of London aint got a garden myself but get em on roftops in Highbury north London.

 

[Paul Collins]

Sorry I have (probably OT) question - what is latin name - of stray dove.

thank You

Excuse me if you haven't misunderstood, but the stray dove refers to the collared dove - I was wondering whether it was a 'stray'.