Look at this

Here in West Texas I get a lot of the white collard doves , Also get some strange wing patterns kind of looks like a light red check on the wings,

Last summer seen a few white wing/Collard crosses , Just a little white on the wings and a very light ring on the neck.

Ever seen the nest of a collard dove, Worst built nest I ever seen, 

I have heard they are way up north now, 

Mike 

We have them in Idaho and they are a pain, pushing our native doves. Mine end up the same way now.

I'll keep a sharp eye out for them in my area. Haven't seen one yet.

I would have thought it was a pigeon at first also.

In Orygun we've seen an increase in non-native Eurasian Collared Doves. They are the size of a small pigeon and like Papy Yosh said are pushing out the native doves. A pest bird to me.

The Eurasian has been captive bred in the states for many years. A pure white strain has existed for longer than most of us. When you see white doves released at some event, they are usually Eurasians.

Yes they are a distructive, invasive pest and well on their way to taking over. Kill all you can any way you can. We have little hope of stopping them but airgunners can be a valuable tool to slowing the expansion of their range and numbers. This is an chance where airgunners could be seen as heros. Fighting to save native populations.

Doubt the ones who lead realize that or quite frankly even care. Self promotion and greed seem to be their only motivation. If we ever hope to be viewed in a positive light by outsiders, we must do it ourselves and this is a great oppertunity to do just that. Please kill all you can and explain to others why you are doing it.

Fuznut

Your thinking of the ring neck dove , They can not live in the wild and die pretty fast if turned lose.

Google the euro and you will see it island hopped over here and has spread like crazy,

Its a warm weather dove but seems to be adapting to the cold.

The Eurasian collared dove bred for the first time in Britain in 1955 in Norfolk. Before 1930 it was confined to Turkey and the Balkans in Europe, although it was found as far east as China. In the next 20 years, it rapidly expanded its range northwest, quickly colonising most of Europe, and now lives north of the Arctic circle in Norway and as far south as Morocco and the Canary Islands.

So collared doves have only lived and bred in the UK for a few decades, but they weren’t introduced – they spread to new areas on their own, as their young have a tendency to disperse far and wide.

Eurasian collared doves are an invasive, non-native species in North America, where they’re now widespread since a few dozen collared doves escaped from an enclosure in Bahamas in 1974. Their range expansion through the US was even faster than their spread across Europe.