Robin/Dove nest, Larimer

[Hugh Kingery]

      Denver Audubon received a call from Dave, who lives in Johnstown. He confirmed that an American Robin built a nest, incubated on it, and then a Eurasian Collared-Dove incubated the same nest with the robin watching from a few feet away. Then the robin took over incubation, then the dove, and finally now the robin is back incubating. This has gone on over a couple of days. Barbara Fahey (Den. Audubon volunteer) asked if he could i.d. the eggs but no, the nest is 20 feet up.

    We look forward to more information from Dave.

    Do any Cobirders have thoughts about this bizarre affair

Hugh Kingery

[Charles Hundertmark]

More evidence of the strong nesting instinct of Eurasian Collared-Doves. 

Chuck Hundertmark

Lafayette, CO

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On Jun 17, 2020, at 5:49 PM, 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds <cob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



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