Birds · Not heard for 39 days.

Stylised portrait of a Rock Dove

Rock Dove

Columba livia

First heard here 19 Sept · last heard 28 Sept · 9 days in the last year · 12 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in France

Olivier SWIFT, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 92% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The rock dove, also known as the common pigeon or rock pigeon, is a member of the bird family Columbidae. In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon", although the rock dove is the wild form of the bird; the pigeons familiar to most people are the domesticated forms of the wild rock dove.

Read more on Wikipedia (Rock dove)

Photograph of a Rock Dove
Photo: william_stephens, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 0 of them.
018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov

Busiest day so far: Saturday 19 September, 3 detections between 2:04pm and 4:37pm.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 10am. From 9 days with hourly counts.

DayHeardFirstLastPeak confidence
28 Sept12:45pm2:45pm83%
27 Sept13:42pm3:42pm72%
26 Sept11:51pm1:51pm94%
25 Sept110:44am10:44am81%
24 Sept210:34am11:10pm81%
23 Sept110:20am10:20am72%
21 Sept17:22am7:22am88%
20 Sept13:52pm3:52pm92%
19 Sept32:04pm4:37pm85%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.