The bird's facial markings are distinctive ... According to Dr Rasmussen, the two turtle-doves received as gifts on the second day of Christmas were European turtle-doves, Streptopelia turtur.

Countless turtle doves were found scattered in the streets, in flower beds and hanging tragically from trees "like Christmas balls" in the town of Faenza. Many of the birds that fell dead from the sky ...

For the longest time, the mourning dove was the only species of these birds that one could see in this area or the rest of ...

Farmers in North Yorkshire are being encouraged to create habitats in a bid to save the turtle dove. Population of the small bird has declined in the UK by 95% since the 1970s, according to the RSPB.

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Seventy acres (28 ha) of land adjoining Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire will be used to attract rare species including the birds. Turtle dove numbers have been in sharp decline since the 1970s ...

A large-scale 30-year rewilding project is under way at Castle Howard, which could see beavers reintroduced. Stuart Minting ...

The ringed turtle-dove is smaller, shorter-tailed ... The 2004–2005 Audubon Christmas Bird Count showed dramatic evidence of the Eurasian collared-dove’s explosive expansion across the ...

The RSPB is encouraging people to get out and leave food for the birds to eat, including peanuts and seeds with chilli powder ...

On the second day of Christmas, My true love gave to me Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree. On the third day of Christmas, My true love gave to me Three French hens, Two turtle doves ...

After Santa Claus – Code Name: RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe ...

After weeks of preparation and anticipation, the big moment arrived on Sunday night when the curtain dropped in Newcastle to ...