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Turtle dove hunting ban boosts western European population by 40%

Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe have rapidly recovered after a hunting ban was introduced in 2021, conservationists said. Numbers in the region increased by 40% to 610,000 ...
Sky

Turtle dove numbers plunge by 98% in UK, study finds

Just 2,100 pairs of turtle doves now breed in the UK - a startling fall of 98% in the highly threatened bird's numbers. The first national survey of the turtle dove - long considered a symbol of love ...
The Conversation

Turtle doves are disappearing from the UK – but there’s still hope for saving them

Rebecca Young receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The 12 Days of Christmas is a song that promises a great deal, ...
Science Daily

Garden seed diet for threatened turtle doves has negative impact

New research into Britain's fastest declining bird species has found that young turtle doves raised on a diet of seeds foraged from non-cultivated arable plants rather than food provided in people's ...
Kent Online

Rare migrating Turtle Doves welcome juvenile after operation to move them to Southern Water’s Minster wastewater treatment site

A pair of rare migrating birds lured to a new home in Kent to avoid disruption from refurbishment works have become parents. When the Environment Agency needed to upgrade its equipment in Minster, ...