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STOCK DOVE
Columba oenas
Stock Dove © Tommy Holden
 
Conservation listings
Europe: no SPEC category (concentrated in Europe, conservation status favourable)
UK: amber (>20% of European breeding population)
Long-term trend
England: rapid increase
Distribution maps
Maps and statistics from British and Irish
atlases can be viewed here.
Status summary
Populations have increased substantially, probably showing a recovery from the deleterious effects of organochlorine seed-dressings in the 1950s and early 1960s (O'Connor & Mead 1984). The increase in nest failure rates at the egg stage, now reversed, was not detectable in farmland habitats alone (Siriwardena et al. 2000b). BBS indices suggest that abundance is still increasing, in the UK and in England alone.
 
CBC/BBS England graph
 
Table of population changes for Stock Dove
Source Period
(yrs)		 Years Plots
(n)		 Change
(%)		 Lower
limit		 Upper
limit		 Alert Comment
CBC/BBS England 35 1967-2002 191 188 105 385    
  25 1977-2002 248 44 14 89    
  10 1992-2002 496 22 5 37    
  5 1997-2002 642 5 -6 15    
BBS UK 9 1994-2003 597 13 2 24    
BBS England 9 1994-2003 552 11 0 22    
BBS acknowledgement
 
BBS UK graph
BBS England graph
 
Table of productivity information for Stock Dove
Variable Period
(yrs)		 Years Mean
annual
sample		 Trend Predicted
in first year		 Predicted
in last year		 Change Comment
Clutch size 34 1968-2002 66 None        
Brood size 34 1968-2002 88 None        
Daily failure rate (eggs) 34 1968-2002 64 Curvilinear 0.0104 nests/day 0.0037 nests/day -0.0067 nests/day  
Daily failure rate (chicks) 34 1968-2002 48 None        
Laying date 34 1968-2002 14 None       Small sample
 
Clutch size graph
Brood size graph
Egg nest failure graph
Chick nest failure graph
Laying date graph
Insufficient data on CES
available for this species
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This report should be cited as:
Baillie, S.R., Marchant, J.H., Crick, H.Q.P., Noble, D.G., Balmer, D.E., Beaven, L.P., Coombes, R.H.,
Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven, M.J., Robinson, R.A. and Thewlis, R.M. (2005)
Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2004.
BTO Research Report No. 385. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)

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