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Turtle Dove

The Turtle Dove is Britain's fastest declining bird, having suffered a 93% decline since 1994. Just as worrying it has suffered a 78% decline across its European range since 1980 which means that it is now vulnerable to global extinction. They are summer migrants that winter in West Africa, which is unusual as all other British pigeons and doves are non-migratory. In Britain they are found mainly in the south of England, but with a small relict outpost on the edge of the North York Moors. They are usually associated with arable land where they feed on the seeds of arable "weeds" such as Fumitory. But in North Yorkshire they seem to be associated with forestry plantations, or rather the "weeds" of bare ground in forestry clearfell where a Fumitory relative called Climbing corydalis (Ceratocapnos claviculata) occurs in abundance (photo on this link). www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/3801160495/in/photolist

I took this photograph a while ago, but when I had the opportunity to visit it was dark and overcast, and the birds were shaded by trees. The ISO was 10,000 and the photos were a little grainy, but I revisited using Topaz noise reduction software, and now I think the result is acceptable.

Taken on: May 8, 2018

Tags:

Streptopelia

turtur

Dove

North

Yorks

Yorkshire

Moors

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Sets appears in: • British Birds

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