Today I discovered that what I thought were mourning doves flocking to my bird seed are in reality something else: Eurasian collared-doves! They look alike but for the fact that the collared-doves are noticeably larger than the mourning doves. They also have a conspicuous black collar on their hind necks.

Sometimes they will attempt to get seed from one of my four bird feeders but, being rather large and somewhat clumsy birds, they more often just get it off the ground where it falls from the birds on the feeders messily pushing it off as they feed. But they appear to be very territorial toward their own kind. I see them spending more time chasing away other collared-doves than actually eating.
They comingle with the smaller birds without apparent problem.

I see them roosting high up in the junipers and they will sometimes startle me when I startle them. I’ll walk past the tree and there will be a sudden thrash of wings as the previously unseen collared-dove takes off noisily from the limb of the tree.

I guess these could be considered our pigeons.