Bird

Eurasian Collared-dove

Streptopelia decaocto

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 28 of 133 counties and cities, across 20 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 28 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 20

Male Eurasian Collared-dove, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Dr. Nasser Halaweh, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 210376521. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 28 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 20
Habitat models: Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Virginia 20

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 20

Year-roundSouthern Piedmont CliffWilliam Frerichs, North Carolina Mountain Landscape: rocky bluffs and ledges above a river in the Carolina mountains. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: North Carolina mountains (William C. A. Frerichs), a neighboring state.North Carolina Mountain Landscape, William Charles Anthony Frerichs, c. 1855-1870. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub RegenerationPaul Sawyier, Landscape: young trees and shrubs in autumn colour crowding the rocky edge of a Kentucky woodland. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Kentucky (Paul Sawyier, Landscape; Johnson Collection), a neighboring state.Landscape label QS:Lit,"Paesaggio" label QS:Lhu,"Tájkép" label QS:Lca,"Paisatge" label QS:Lde,"Landschaft" label QS:Lpt,"Paisagem" label QS:Lda,"Landskab" label QS:Lsl,"Krajina" label QS:Lja,"風景" label QS:Lsv,"Landskap" label QS:Lpl,"Pejzaż" label QS:Luk,"Пейзаж" label QS:Lnl,"Landschap" label QS:Les,"Paisaje" label QS:Ltr,"Manzara" label QS:Lfi,"Maisema" label QS:Len,"Landscape" label QS:Lfr,"Paysage" label QS:Lmk,"Предел" label QS:Lru,"Пейзаж", Paul Sawyier, c. 1890-1917. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundNorth-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Talus; Cumberland Sandstone Glade and BarrensBald Face above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, North Carolina: a bare granite dome rising above forest and a still lake (photochrom print, about 1902). Shown: Bald Face (Big Bald Face) above Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, Jackson County, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Bald Face from Lake Fairfield, Sapphire, N.C., Detroit Publishing Co. (photochrom print), c. 1902. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundSouth-Central Interior Mesophytic ForestHarvey Joiner, Woods Scene: tall beeches in a moist Kentucky woodland, light falling through a closed canopy onto a damp forest floor. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Kentucky beech woods (Harvey Joiner, Louisville painter of Kentucky beech forests; the painting does not name the site), a neighboring state.Woods Scene, Harvey Joiner, c. 1880-1920. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Shown: Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr), a neighboring state.Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianFrederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina (1865-70): a boulder-strewn mountain river under autumn-coloured ridges. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: North Carolina mountains (Frederic Edwin Church, oil sketch 1865-70; Cooper Hewitt), a neighboring state.Drawing, Autumn Landscape in North Carolina, 1865–70, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865-1870. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundNorthern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier; Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression SwampWilliam McIlvaine, The Chickahominy Swamp (1862): wind-tossed swamp trees standing in dark water under a storm. Chickahominy Swamp, VirginiaThe Chickahominy Swamp LCCN2004661405, William McIlvaine (1813-1867), 1862. Public domain. Source record.

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

Year-roundAllegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest; Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland; Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Year-roundCentral Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain

Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone

Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades.

Year-roundSouthern Interior Calcareous Cliff; Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier

Maritime forests and thickets

Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Mountain balds

Treeless grassy or shrubby summits and ridges in the high mountains.

Year-roundSouthern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

Year-roundCentral Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Year-round

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Year-roundDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation

Other habitats in its models (140)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia. Those recorded in Virginia first, the rest by region.

In Virginia 3

Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and Talus Year-round.
Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Year-round.

Elsewhere in the South (75)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Maritime Forest Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Year-round.
Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Chalk Bluff Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Year-round.
Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Year-round.
Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
Florida Peninsula Inland Scrub Year-round.
Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Year-round.
Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Year-round.
Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Year-round.
Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Year-round.
Mississippi River Riparian Forest Year-round.
Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Year-round.
Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Year-round.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
South Florida Hardwood Hammock Year-round.
South Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
South Florida Pine Rockland Year-round.
South Florida Shell Hash Beach Year-round.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods Year-round.
South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Granitic Dome Year-round.
Southern Appalachian Rocky Summit Year-round.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Oak Dome and Hammock Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
Southern Interior Acid Cliff Year-round.
Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock Year-round.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Year-round.
Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Year-round.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Year-round.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Year-round.

Northeast (3)

Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Year-round.
North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Year-round.
Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Year-round.

Midwest (7)

Central Interior Acidic Cliff and Talus Year-round.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Year-round.
North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Year-round.
North-Central Oak Barrens Year-round.
Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Year-round.

Land cover and other classes (52)

Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
Barren Land Year-round.
Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Year-round.
Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Year-round.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Year-round.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Year-round.
Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Year-round.
Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Year-round.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Year-round.
Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Year-round.
Quarries, Mines, Gravel Pits and Oil Wells Year-round.
Recently Burned Year-round.
Recently Burned Forest Year-round.
Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
Recently Logged Areas Year-round.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Year-round.
Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Year-round.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

Year-round: nests here, in 28 of 133 counties and cities. Introduced.

County or city

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Virginia, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Eurasian Collared-dove uses many habitats in Virginia; these are its 3 most characteristic.