![]() Thereupon Zeus created this dove that has called out "Deca-octo" ever since. A maid who worked hard for little money was unhappy that she was only paid 18 coins a year and begged the gods to let the world know how little she was rewarded by her mistress. The specific epithet is Greek for "eighteen". ![]() The generic name is from the Ancient Greek streptos meaning "collar" and peleia meaning "dove" Identification from the African collared dove is very difficult with silent birds, with the African species being marginally smaller and paler, but the calls are very distinct, a soft purring in the African collared dove quite unlike the Eurasian collared dove's cooing. The Eurasian collared dove is closely related to the Sunda collared dove of Southeast Asia and the African collared dove of Sub-Saharan Africa, forming a superspecies with these. They are now considered junior synonyms of the nominate subspecies ( S. intercedens from southern India and Sri Lanka. stoliczkae from Turkestan in central Asia and S. Two other subspecies were formerly sometimes accepted, S. ![]() xanthocycla) was formerly considered a subspecies of the Eurasian collared dove, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. It is now placed in genus Streptopelia that was introduced in 1855 by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The type locality is Plovdiv in Bulgaria. Taxonomy Ĭolumba decaocto was the scientific name proposed by the Hungarian naturalist Imre Frivaldszky in 1838 who described a Eurasian collared dove. Because of its vast global range and increasing population trend, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2014. The Eurasian collared dove ( Streptopelia decaocto) is a dove species native to Europe and Asia it was introduced to Japan, North America and islands in the Caribbean. ![]()
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