🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Ring-necked Dove live?

Streptopelia capicola has 681,699 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1849 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Ring-necked Dove
Ring-necked Dove — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeStreptopelia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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.

Records over time

18492026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 494,508
Kenya 45,413
Namibia 41,426
Tanzania 20,619
Botswana 18,628
Zimbabwe 15,905
Zambia 13,347
Uganda 11,338
Eswatini 4,606
Mozambique 4,510
Rwanda 2,606
Malawi 2,603
Ethiopia 2,226
Lesotho 1,394
Angola 1,188
DR Congo 666
Mayotte 182
Somalia 172
South Sudan 82
Comoros 71
Congo 62
Gabon 45
Sudan 28
Réunion 24
Burundi 21
United States 10
Canada 4
Nigeria 3
Australia 2
Benin 2
Djibouti 2
India 2
Egypt 1
Eritrea 1
Greece 1
Indonesia 1

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