BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Stock Dove

STOCK DOVE
Columba oenas

• Population
changes

• Productivity
trends

• Additional
information

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

UK population size

309,000 territories in 2000 (1988–91 Atlas estimate updated using CBC trend: BiE04, APEP06)

Status summary

Stock Dove populations have increased very substantially, probably showing a recovery from the lethal and sublethal effects of the organochlorine seed-dressings used in the 1950s and early 1960s (O'Connor & Mead 1984). Numbers appeared to level off in the early 1980s, but entered a further increasing phase in the early 1990s. Recent BBS indices indicate continuing strong growth, in the UK and in England alone. The increase in nest failure rates at the egg stage, now reversed, was not detectable in farmland habitats alone (Siriwardena et al. 2000b). Overall, nest failure rates have fallen substantially. Most nests appear to be started around two weeks later in the year now than in the 1960s and 1970s.

Population changes

Productivity trends

Insufficient data on CES
available for this species

Additional information


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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., 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. (2006) Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2005. BTO Research Report No. 435. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends) Pages maintained by Susan Waghorn and Iain Downie: Last updated 2 May, 2006