• Rippling effects of conservation creates a home for Turtle Doves at Kent farm
    Never far from our thoughts during the festive season, thanks to starring roles on Christmas cards and in the song Twelve Days of Christmas , Turtle Doves ac tually spend the winter far away from our...
  • The tale of the turtle dove
    Tara Proud is responsible for managing Operation Turtle Dove , a flyway scale conservation programme to save the UK's fastest declining bird. Here she introduces her project will feature at our AGM and...
  • Turtle Doves: An artist's perspective
    Certain species really capture people's imagination and the turtle dove is no exception. We invited artist Steve Kershaw to share how this very bird has come to inspire him. It seems like only yesterday...
  • Four ways to help turtle doves this festive season
    For many people, the turtle dove is a bird associated with Christmas. It’s a firm feature in our Christmas carols, decorations and literature, but did you know that these beautiful and iconic doves are...
  • Turtle Dove Supplementary Feeding
    Blog by Dr Tony Morris , Senior Conservation Scientist, and Laura Wright, Research Assistant, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Why do we need to do anything? Between 1995 and 2004 the number...