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Turtle dove flies towards extinction as numbers halve in UK

Turtle dove flies towards extinction as numbers halve in UK

November 13, 2019December 14, 2021 Supertrooper 5 Comments

The turtle dove, Britain’s most endangered bird, continues to plummet towards extinction, its numbers having halved over five years, according to the latest data. The turtle dove’s 51% decline from 2013 to 2017 is the most drastic of a continuing slump for a quarter of farmland bird species. However, there are signs of recovery for […]

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Turtle Dove slaughter in Morocco by foreign hunters

Turtle Dove slaughter in Morocco by foreign hunters

September 12, 2019December 14, 2021 Supertrooper 18 Comments

A massacre of nearly 1500 Turtle Doves in one day by foreign tourist hunters in the Marrakech region sparked great outrage in Morocco. The total exceeded by three times the hunting quota set by the law according to an official inquiry. A hunting party organized in the region of Marrakech has turned into a real […]

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‘We are silencing the natural world’: can the turtle dove be saved?

‘We are silencing the natural world’: can the turtle dove be saved?

August 12, 2019February 18, 2021 Abhishek Majumder 1 Comment

Under the torrential rain of a fickle British summer, 25 soggy pilgrims gather in front of the Plough, an ancient oak-beamed pub in the West Sussex village of Rusper. Above the drone of planes bringing travellers into Gatwick, the walkers – variously devotees of trekking, folk music or wildlife – raise their voices to sing […]

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Serin at Littlestone and a first for London

Serin at Littlestone and a first for London

May 29, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Anderson 1 Comment

Jim and I travelled down to Littlestone in Kent this morning and before 7am we had found our first target as we pulled up outside the golf course to park and we could hear the European Serin singing it’s heart out. The singing made it quite easy to pick out the bird as it moved […]

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Upcher’s Warblers

Upcher’s Warblers

May 21, 2019December 23, 2019 Yoav Perlman Leave a comment

This morning I went out birding with Piki, Micha and Stefan in E Lakhish hills. It was my first visit to this wonderful part of the country since my return from the UK. As the days are already very hot now, we started super early when it was actually quite chilly (7⁰C!). As we stepped […]

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Dusky Turtle Dove

Dusky Turtle Dove

December 5, 2018December 23, 2019 Jem Babbington 1 Comment

Whilst birding the southwest of the Kingdom at various times from spring through summer I came across good numbers of Dusky Turtle Dove. Numbers have been much higher this year than any previous years I have been to the southwest. The species is a breeding resident in the Asir notably the Abha and Jebel Soudah […]

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First Autumn European Turtle Dove – Jubail area

First Autumn European Turtle Dove – Jubail area

October 21, 2018December 23, 2019 Jem Babbington Leave a comment

The European Turtle Dove is a long-distance migrant breeder across much of central and southern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, wintering mainly in the Sahel zone of Africa. The species is in serious decline because of loss of suitable habitat in both the breeding and non-breeding range, unsustainable levels of hunting […]

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Birding the Abha Area

Birding the Abha Area

August 28, 2018December 23, 2019 Jem Babbington Leave a comment

Whilst birding the Abha area recently we went to Azeeza to look for Blandford’s Short-toed Larks as birds had been seen here by us in previous years. The area has had some building and construction work done in the last couple of years and despite quite extensive searching we failed to find any birds. Very […]

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