Eurasian collared-dove; we saw at least three, probably four, courting and displaying out by the Fish Docks on outer Point Reyes last Friday.
They’re handsome, look a lot like the native band-tailed pigeon, but this is yet another invasive exotic species like European starling and English sparrow. A bunch of them showed up in Point Reyes Station on the last Christmas Count, and we weren’t the first to see them out on the Chimney Rock trail. One consolation is that there’s at least a pair of peregrines in residence out there. Maybe this lot will be falcon chow.
Posted by: Ron Sullivan
1 | By: VS on April 17, 2008 at 07:03 AM
I’m told that if you have a lab coat and a clipboard, nobody will bother you as you net pigeons…