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- Longueur
- 31–33 cm
- Envergure
- 47–55 cm
- Poids
- 200 g
Présence dans le détroit
Common resident in inhabited areas. Recent colonisation and expansion. First observations were of four birds on 28.10.87 in the River Guadiaro estuary and one bird on 5.09.89 in the Barbate pine forests. From 1990 they have been seen in many places increasingly, reaching Ceuta in 1995.
Identification
Similar to a Turtle Dove, with plain greyish-brown upperparts, more slender, a longer tail and a black collar, absent in juveniles.
Déplacements
Sedentary with post-breeding dispersal. They form winter groups. Their origins are in Asia from where they started to expand at the beginning of the 20th Century towards the N and W of Europe, through the Balkans to Hungary (1930), former Czechoslovakia (1936), Austria (1938), Germany (1943), Holland (1947), Denmark (1948), France (1950), United Kingdom (1955) and the Iberian Peninsula: North (1974), Central (1980) and Strait of Gibraltar (1990).
Texte éditorial de Bioestrecho. Dernière révision : 8 septembre 2026.
Galerie
Détroitavocat, CC BY · 2021
DétroitDarío Calvente Viera, CC BY · 2024
DétroitVincent Mia Edie Verheyen, CC BY · 2025
Détroitavocat, CC BY · 2021
DétroitDarío Calvente Viera, CC BY · 2023
DétroitDarío Calvente Viera, CC BY · 2023
