Morphological Traits of Eurasian Collared Doves in Annaba, Algeria

35 Eurasian collared doves (<i>Streptopelia decaocto</i>) were measured for 13 morphological characteristics, body mass, and two body condition indices. The data compares doves from two sites 1.6 km apart within the city of Annaba, Algeria, 20 years after the species settled there. The dataset was authored by Hani A. Aouissi and published on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze urban-rural morphological differentiation based on 13 measured traits.
• Study body condition variation in birds using Body Condition Index (BCI) and Scaled Mass Index (SMI).
• Investigate the spatial scale (<1 km) of phenotypic divergence mentioned in the description.
• Examine the temporal scale (<20 years) of evolutionary adaptation to urbanization.

Strengths

• Includes measurements for 13 distinct morphological traits, body mass, and two condition indices.
• Compares 35 individual birds from two distinct urban habitats within a single city.
• Data is focused on an understudied geographic region (Algeria, Africa) for urban ecology.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The sample size of 35 doves from two sites may limit statistical power for some analyses.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Direct morphological measurement of captured birds.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 09:53:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Annaba, Algeria.