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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New paper: European Turtle Dove overwintering habitat in the Sahel 🪶 Results show birds rely on riparian forests and nearby grasslands Read the full article by @rspbscience.bsky.social and @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... Photo: Chris Orsman

A Turtle Dove is held to camera with a small piece of tracking equipment fixed to its back. The bird has a grey head and breast with brown-black patterning on its wings creating a tortoiseshell-like pattern.

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Turtle Doves spend ~60% of the year in the Sahel, but their winter ecology remains poorly understood

A simple map of the West African savanna highlighting top to bottom: Sahelian acacia savanna (yellow), West Sudanian savanna (peach orange) and Guinean forest-savanna (green). To the right is highlighted the Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna (green). Across the map there are lots of red dots showing the overwintering location of the tracked Turtle Doves.

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Momento Vivere @behindthefrequency.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Are they called turtle doves because their wing coloring looks like a turtle shell?

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