Westview area OWL?

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i live in the westview area (please dont let that effect property values!!) and when i walk my dog i hear a bird hooting…i dont beleive it to be a loon,but probabkly an owl…

any experts in this field of bird call?..anyone in the hood who has also heard it?

thanks

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Does it go “hoo hooooo hoo”?

If it does, it might actually be a type of dove. We have them on this end too. I even posted about it ages ago asking the same thing you just did LOL.

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Doves “coo”…some singularly, some in sequence…mine used to use a singular drawn out cooooooo

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cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

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They are Turtle Doves. For some unknown reason they are appearing in BC. We have a few in our neighbourhood in Nanaimo

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I used to live down by the old Seal Cove School and I heard this cooing sound that I was told to be an owl. It wouldn’t matter what time of the day it was for this owl, or what ever it was, sounded like a bird in distress. I then, not to long ago, moved to the Westview area where I like to believe that it followed me, as now I have started to hear it again.

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Eurasian collared dove actually, introduced to north america, and recently greatly expanding thier range and population in Northern canada, they are migratory and winter in the southern US and mexico.

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Wel, whatever type of dove it is. It’s light brown in colour and is about the same size as a crow, give or take.

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Does it sound like this?

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yup sounds like that soggy…interesting…

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Yup, that’s it. I’ve seen them before. They just showed up about two years ago.

Hoo hoooooo hoo… :stuck_out_tongue:

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but this guy was around all winter…

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Maybe it’s mild enough here that he doesn’t need to fly south? Dunno. But that’s the bird I’ve seen making that noise.

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Off topic, but…
Tonight in my backyard I saw a woodpecker. Bluish body, bright red head. Very woody woodpecker!
I live near CHSS.

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That would be the pileated woodpecker.

Pileated_Woodpecker_in_a_Tree.jpg737×983 587 KB

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Tracking the dove… from Seal Cove to Westview, now points in between. Is this bird invasive? Should we be fearful? First, that fish in Burnaby Lake, now a dove, cooing all over town. What does this mean?
Really, will it displace other birds?

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[quote=“windchime”]Tracking the dove… from Seal Cove to Westview, now points in between. Is this bird invasive? Should we be fearful? First, that fish in Burnaby Lake, now a dove, cooing all over town. What does this mean?
Really, will it displace other birds?[/quote]

They are Turtle Doves and actually are quite pretty ! They “play” well with others so I really don’t see the issue. I have seen them all over town since I moved here 13 years ago but below is a pic of a family of doves in my dads’ yard in Ontario in April. Same doves as are here.

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[quote=“codybear933”]

[quote=“windchime”]Tracking the dove… from Seal Cove to Westview, now points in between. Is this bird invasive? Should we be fearful? First, that fish in Burnaby Lake, now a dove, cooing all over town. What does this mean?
Really, will it displace other birds?[/quote]

They are Turtle Doves and actually are quite pretty ! They “play” well with others so I really don’t see the issue. I have seen them all over town since I moved here 13 years ago but below is a pic of a family of doves in my dads’ yard in Ontario in April. Same doves as are here.[/quote]

Those aren’t the ones making the noise. The video that Soggy posted was it. I’ve seen them in the trees over where I live, and in terrace. They’re light brown in color. Not saying we don’t have turtle doves, but those aren’t the ones we’re seeing. These ones have only been here a few years.