Turtle 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 […]

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Hoping 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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The migrant birds illegally shot in Malta

This blog is from the RSPB’s Bugs, Birds and Beasts in the East blog page Blog by Tara Proud, RSPB Species Recovery Officer & Operation Turtle Dove Project Manager Each spring thousands of migrant birds cross Malta on their way to breeding grounds in Europe, and some of them even choose the UK as their […]

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Birds without borders

To coincide with the return of the Turtle Dove to our shores, the summer edition of the RSPB’s Birds magazine carries an article by natural history writer, Mike Unwin, charting the trials and tribulations suffered by the migratory Turtle Dove; from it’s sub-saharan wintering quarters where ideal habitats are disappearing, over desert regions and hunting grounds, […]

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