Hunting season
Hohltaube Community of Madrid
The stock dove (Columba oenas) is a small, blue-grey woodland pigeon without the white markings of the wood pigeon. In Germany it is listed under federal hunting law but carries year-round closed-season protection and is additionally protected as a European bird species under nature-conservation law.
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When may Hohltaube be hunted in Community of Madrid?
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Exact dates
Paloma zurita · Modalidad: General (excl. Puesto fijo paloma) · Paloma zurita
- 2025-10-08 → 2026-01-31· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Queda prohibido el empleo de hurón en toda clase de terrenos cinegéticos, salvo en aquellos casos expresamente autorizados por la Consejería competente en materia de medio ambiente.Con carácter general, se prohíbe la práctica de cualquier actividad cinegética entodos los terrenos de aprovechamiento cinegético común, conocidos como terrenos libres, en la Comunidad de Madrid. En cualquier caso, si se produjeran daños graves verificables en los cultivos agrícolas de grandes áreas de superficie, se podrá mediante Resolución de la dirección general con competencias en materia de caza suspender esta limitación en los términos municipales afectados, a instancias de sus Ayuntamientos.
Paloma zurita · Modalidad: Puesto fijo paloma · Paloma zurita
- 2025-10-15 → 2025-11-15
Se podrá practicar su caza en los pasos catalogados como tales por la Consejería competente en materia de medio ambiente. Queda prohibido el empleo de hurón en toda clase de terrenos cinegéticos, salvo en aquellos casos expresamente autorizados por la Consejería competente en materia de medio ambiente.Con carácter general, se prohíbe la práctica de cualquier actividad cinegética en todos los terrenos de aprovechamiento cinegético común, conocidos como terrenos libres, en la Comunidad de Madrid. En cualquier caso, si se produjeran daños graves verificables en los cultivos agrícolas de grandes áreas de superficie, se podrá mediante Resolución de la dirección general con competencias en materia de caza suspender esta limitación en los términos municipales afectados, a instancias de sus Ayuntamientos.
About Hohltaube
The stock dove (Columba oenas) measures 28 to 32 centimetres in length with a wingspan of 60 to 66 centimetres, making it roughly the size of a feral pigeon and clearly smaller than the wood pigeon. The plumage is uniformly blue-grey, the sides of the neck show a green metallic sheen, the breast carries a pale orange wash and the wings have narrow black trailing edges. Unlike the wood pigeon (Ringeltaube), the stock dove lacks any white neck patch and any white wing bar; unlike the pale grey collared dove (Tuerkentaube), it lacks the black hind-neck crescent.
The stock dove is the only native pigeon species that depends on tree cavities for breeding. It is tightly bound to old-growth stands with black woodpeckers, since it relies on abandoned black woodpecker cavities as nesting sites. Preferred habitats are open deciduous and mixed forests with old beech, as well as large parklands and floodplain forests. Breeding takes place inside the cavity, the clutch normally contains two eggs, and incubation lasts sixteen to seventeen days. Central European stock doves are partial migrants that winter in southern and western Europe.
In Germany, the Federal Hunting Act lists the stock dove among huntable species, but it carries a year-round closed season and may not be hunted. In addition, it is strictly protected as a European bird species under the Federal Nature Conservation Act, and its breeding sites and cavity trees may not be damaged. For hunters and ground managers this means above all: preserve old cavity trees, treat black woodpecker territories carefully, and never confuse the stock dove with huntable pigeon species in the field.
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