Turtle Dove Talk
Turtle Doves are Wild About the Wensum
Last Saturday (18th May) saw the seventh annual Wild About the Wensum event at Pensthorpe Wildlife and Gardens, near Fakenham, Norfolk. This popular event attracts around 2,000 visitors and aims to educate adults and children alike about the natural environment. This year Wild About the Wensum was dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of […]
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Turtle dove on garden lawn
Turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur, on garden lawn, daisies, May, Norfolk, Operation Turtle Dove
Continue readingTurtle Dove Reminiscences
By Peter Wilkinson from Hertfordshire, UK It is a truth universally acknowledged among ringers (well, perhaps not among the statisticians, who know that these things are truly random) that a ringer in want of a spectacular recovery must only ring one or at most a very few of the species in question. My contribution to […]
Continue readingHoping for a summer full of Turtle doves
A post by Operation Turtle Dove supporter, Dawn Monrose… My passion for conservation and wildlife stems from an early encounter with a Turtle dove. I was around 16 years old, already with a strong interest in nature, when one day a different bird appeared at the feeding station we’d set up at our family home. […]
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Nature Studies: The Disappearing Turtle Dove
Did you see the article ‘Nature Studies: The disappearing turtle dove’ in The Independant today (9th May 2013)? Yes, things are looking bleak for the turtle dove but all hope is not gone yet!! We are working very hard to make sure that our children and those for generations to come will still be able to hear […]
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