Presentation Year

2025

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The Eurasian collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is an invasive columbiform that has spread across the continent of North America in under thirty years since its first introduction (Smith 1987, Romagosa and McEneaney 1999). Since then, it has competed with and dominated a variety of native passerines (Romagosa and McEneaney 1999, Romagosa and Labisky 2000). Our goal was to further discover its feeding habits and dietary preferences in order to gain a better understanding of its impact on native birds such as the mourning dove (Zenaida macroura). We hypothesized that collared-doves would prefer corn over millet seeds, and millet seeds over oats and sunflower seeds.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Daniel

Primary Contact: Last Name

Francois

Primary Contact: Email

df145@humboldt.edu

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Undergraduate Student

Primary Contact: Phone Number

(916) 902-0904

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1662

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