Eurasian collard doves

[singleshot12]

Let em multiply and take over worse than starlings.. These birds are hardy opportunists. we need some descent year around wing shooting opportunity in this state

[motg9_6]

  and they taste good!!! Starlings are a little tough.

[TONTO]

 I remember reading somewhere that they don't compete with the morning doves or bandtails, but are instead filling the void left by the extinct passanger pigeon. If this is true someday they just might black out the sun

[yorketransport]

I've seen a few out here in Yelm. I'm having a hard time getting a 100% ID on them though when I see them flying around. Don't want to shoot the wrong dove!

[TONTO]

I've seen a few out here in Yelm. I'm having a hard time getting a 100% ID on them though when I see them flying around. Don't want to shoot the wrong dove!

 Mourning dove has the pointed tail. Collard dove tail is squared like a park pigeon. BandTail pigeon are bigger.

[REHJWA]

Have a pair under my feeder every morning...

[Heredoggydoggy]

Heard one calling today, off in the distance.  For some reason they figure that they are not wanted around here... 

[WCTaxidermy]

They are very good eating!  They are a big threat to the Mourning Dove population.  I have done a ton of reading on this.  Fish and Game throughout the United States are very concerned because the mourning dove populations are declining because of the Eurasian Dove's increasing population.  They are a very aggressive species and are taking over the same range areas that the Mourning Doves migrate to have enjoyed for decades.  The more we can harvest and eat, the better our Mourning Dove population will be.

 

[pianoman9701]

Not sure if a license is needed to shoot them on your own property, but a small game license isn't that expensive, and would cover you in any situation.   

There should be no license required on any invasive or pest species. No season, no limit, no license. You eradicate invasive species by giving people incentive to kill or remove them. Rats, Eurasian collard doves, coyotes, wol....never mind.

[huntindoc]

Very tasty, dark meat.  I have found them alot harder to kill than mourning doves.  I knocked one down hard last year in a cloud of feathers.  Sucker got up and flew away before I could pick him up.    Many of the bird feeder crowd like the sound and look of them.

  Look around any ag areas.  I've got a buddy who shot close to a dozzen in June over a silo.

[Limhangerslayer]

I had the shotgun out and two down the pipe ready to fire and I realized I was in city limits . I really need to find a pellet gun.

I wouldn't use a pellet gun either, that's illegal too

[bigtex]

I had the shotgun out and two down the pipe ready to fire and I realized I was in city limits . I really need to find a pellet gun.

I wouldn't use a pellet gun either, that's illegal too

Its legal in naches. As well as bow hunting. just cant shoot anything that goes boom here.

WAC 232-12-247
Transmission lines—Unlawful hunting.
 
It is unlawful to shoot at wild animals or wild birds while they are on a telephone or electrical transmission line, or the pole, crossarm or insulator thereof.