Huge Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida

Video of Huge Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida

Huge Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida - may be a hybrid or "mutant"

This pair of collared-Doves are lighter and a lot larger  than I've seen in the backyard before. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiFOn84PAc 

which shows a typically grayer and smaller Eurasian Collared Dover in our yard last winter. These may be hybrids or descendants of breeder's birds in Florida. The larger one is probably a male and he towers over a mature male Common Grackle which is a good sized bird. These big Doves are a bit slow and need to watch out for our resident Red-Shouldered Hawks! What a meal they would make....

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