who all has eurasians in their yard?

[amazona]

I remember about a decade ago when I saw the first Eurasian Collared-Dove in my town, and I thought it was an escaped pet! Now they are already an accepted breeding species on the official Louisiana bird list and they have become a regular in my yard. I was just watching a chase a few minutes ago -- I assume a territory thing -- looked too fast and intense to be courtship.


There's a link here if you don't know what I'm talking about--

http://www.birdsource.org/features/eucdov/

But even if you don't know what I'm talking about now...you will.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[blindpig]

1. seen them in panhandle Fla.

In Eastpoint, across the river from Apalachicola.

[amazona]

2. first one I ever saw (other than the "pet") was in Tucson, Arizona

Actually, there were three or four sitting on a wire. I think they're pretty widely distributed now from Florida to Arizona, maybe further, who knows. They seem to like the urban/suburban areas around New Orleans which seems like a very different climate from Tucson!

When I was in London last year, I read some local newswrap where they had an article by Frederick Forsythe about how England was the best country in the world and how he could never leave even with all its problems because of "the ringed dove singing from the roof top." I got a laugh out of that. I think the Eurasian Collared-Dove reached England around 1955. Now they're apparently the "real" England. :-)

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72