A blog post from RSPB Turtle Conservation Advisor, Sam Lee The Challenge: To turn this area of land into a seed rich feeding area for turtle doves Before … RSPB and Essex Bird Watching Society (EBWS) volunteers joined forces to establish a turtle dove foraging plot in a disused area of the MOD Wethersfield site. […]
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Ros Gourgey – MOD Sustainability Manager MOD Wethersfield
TD foraging site at MOD Wethersfield – seeding
TD foraging site at MMOD Wethersfield – before seeding
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New research provides farmers with techniques to help turtle dove recovery
A new research study, conducted on six farms across East Anglia, has recommended a new agri-environment management option that could help in the recovery of UK turtle dove populations. The study, carried out by the RSPB and part-funded by Natural England (through its Species Recovery Programme), found that cultivating grown seed with a mix of […]
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Birds of Christmas Future
This third blog in our festive series about the turtle dove comes from Conservation Manager at Conservation Grade, Simon Tonkin… “If you believe we will not succeed, we have already failed” Is it because turtle doves cannot raise enough broods to sustain the population in our countryside or the onslaught of hunting? Is it because […]
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