#1275 · 🐦 birds

White-winged Dove

🇳🇱 Witvleugeltreurduif ·Zenaida asiatica

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andy Bridges · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Roberto R. Calderón · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jorge A. Pérez Torres · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kala Murphy King · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © MarvalPhotography19 · CC BY 4.0
7. © Philip Woods · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Francesco Veronesi · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Andrea Kreuzhage · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The white-winged dove ( Zenaida asiatica ) is a dove whose native range extends from the south-western United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In recent years with increasing urbanization and backyard feeding, it has expanded throughout Texas, into Oklahoma, Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. It has also been introduced to Florida.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 104,277iNaturalist observations
weight 153 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
104,277 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 153 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).