#1325 · 🐦 birds

Eared Dove

🇳🇱 Geoorde Treurduif ·Zenaida auriculata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Diego Caballero · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Scott Loarie · CC0
3. © Juan Felipe Restrepo Mesa · CC BY 4.0
4. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
5. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
6. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
7. © Scott Loarie · CC0
8. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The eared dove ( Zenaida auriculata ) is a New World dove. It is a resident breeder throughout South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards. It may be a relatively recent colonist of Tobago and Trinidad. It appears to be partially migratory, its movements driven by food supplies.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,800iNaturalist observations
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.
41,800 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet Des Murs in 1847 (179 years ago).