๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Spotted Dove live?

Spilopelia chinensis has 2,755,341 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1828 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Spotted Dove
Spotted Dove โ€” iNaturalist/zinogre / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeSpilopelia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 839,676
Australia 743,028
Taiwan 486,562
United States 126,411
Thailand 124,176
China 88,023
Sri Lanka 62,765
Hong Kong 49,741
Singapore 44,243
Malaysia 33,065
New Zealand 31,512
Indonesia 29,591
Nepal 21,690
Cambodia 17,832
Bangladesh 15,160
Philippines 11,308
Vietnam 7,541
Myanmar 4,640
Bhutan 3,949
Fiji 3,162
Macao 2,775
Pakistan 1,942
New Caledonia 1,806
Laos 1,751
Timor-Leste 1,552
Mauritius 1,156
Brunei 198
Mexico 43
Belgium 11
Netherlands 5
ZZ 3
United Arab Emirates 2
Bahrain 2
Estonia 2
France 2
Japan 2
South Korea 2
Canada 1
Congo 1
Guadeloupe 1

Showing the top 40 of 43 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.