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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)Where and when to see it in the UK

Vagrant · reporting peaks April · Doves and Pigeons · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
Aitor, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Mourning Dove: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Mourning Dove has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Vagrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in April.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SV80Sea, off Isles of Scilly22025unverified
HY75Sea, off Orkney Islands12019unverified
HU44Shetland Islands, Scotland42015 to 2016unverified
NM49Highland, Scotland22013unverified
NG30Highland, Scotland22013unverified
TL46Cambridgeshire, England12010unverified
NF86Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland102007unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.