An Oriental turtle-dove is photographed through a scope perched in a tree at the corner of Colorado Avenue and Higgins Place around 11 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A bird sighted ...

Bird conservation charity, RSPB, celebrates the winner of its inaugural competition – the swift has been named the favourite following public votes.

Turtle Doves are making a promising, but fragile recovery – and volunteers are playing a vital role.

PALO ALTO — Perhaps a frightful storm or a faulty compass led the migratory bird awry, but one way or another, it ended up far from home, and alone. Feathers ruffled, the well-traveled vagabond ...

The hunting season for Turtle-doves has not yet opened, but the national quota of 1,500 Turtle-doves has already been illegally reached, BirdLife said Saturday, This is based on footage and ...

Turtle doves received a festive boost today as the National Trust announced plans to expand a nature reserve for them to nest in. While the beloved birds feature in the carol The Twelve Days of ...

BirdLife Malta said Wednesday is proposing a moratorium on the spring hunting of the Vulnerable European Turtle-dove in view of scientific evidence pointing to the species’ continued decline. The ...

Turtle doves have seen numbers plummet as farmland bird populations reached new record lows, official figures have shown. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

The spring hunting season for turtle dove has not yet started yet poachers have already caught more than the 1,500 national quota allowed by law, bird activists have claimed. Birdlife Malta said all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...