| Common Name : | Eurasian collared dove, Indian collared dove. |
| Binomial Name : | Streptopelia decaocto |
| Family : | Columbidae |
| Bengali Name : | Dhobol Ghughu ( |
| Photo Taken : | Bangladesh |
Our today's bird is the Eurasian collared dove which is a common bird from Bangladesh and vastly seen before. But these days their count decreases for the heinous activities by the greedy hunters. This bird is also known as Indian collared dove or simply as Collared dove. In Bangladesh it has several Bengali names across the country such as Dhobol Ghughu (
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a beautiful bird which is having similar size like other doves. It is a common bird and slightly larger than a normal bird. The main color of the bird is grayish. The upper part of the wings are slightly darker compare to the the whole body. It has a black crescent ring at the back of the neck for which it is named as Eurasian collared dove. The lower part of the wing slightly black in color. Under tail of the bird is having a mixture of black and white. The color of the beak is black. The eyes are having a white outer circle. The legs are short and feet are pink/red in color. Both sexes are alike.
The call of the Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is similar to any other doves which is ghu-ghu-ghu. But it can make a different sound than other doves which is haah-haah or simply haaaaa. I heard this call when I was roaming around the forest inside the Sonarchor. It was a silent forest and the call was really scary one on that particular situation. Initially I didn't know that it was a call of this bird.
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) prefers to live around the human beings, specially where the food is easily available. They use to forage around the ground, grasses, and paddy fields after harvesting. They do it alone or with a pair (but in some countries they are found as a gregarious, but I have never seen that). They mainly feed on the grains. They make their nest on the small trees or lower branches of the trees. The female lays two eggs and incubate during the night whereas the male incubate the eggs during the day time.
This bird used to call continuously ghu-ghu-ghu from the high perched on a lazy noon in Bangladesh. But these days such lyrical call hearing is rare from this particular bird. This is because the avarice nature of the hunters around in Bangladesh. Though we have a law against such activities, but no one is listening about that. In fact sometimes the government's high official personnel join the party too with their air riffle.
Photos of Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) were taken from the following locations of Bangladesh:
1) November 2014: Nagorpur, Tangail.
2) December 2014: Sonarchor, Patuakhali.
3) December 2014: Kukri-mukri, Bhola.
This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog http://icbird.blogspot.com/
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