• Turtle Dove National Survey 2021
    The soft purr of the turtle dove has become an increasingly rare sound of summer. In today’s blog, Simon Wotton, Senior Conservation Scientist, explains why a national survey is needed for these birds...
  • An update on the Turtle Dove National Survey 2021
    Blog post by Simon Wotton, Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. Survey plans The Rare Breeding Birds Panel and RSPB, with the support of BTO , Natural England and many...
  • Turtle Dove hunting and a moratorium
    In 2021 and 2022, no hunting of Turtle Doves was permitted in France, Spain or Portugal for the first time. This was an incredible respite for the UK’s fastest-declining species, given that loss of breeding...
  • Results from the National Willow Tit survey
    In recent years, our endemic race of willow tit (Poecile montanus kleinschmidti) have been lost from large areas of southern and eastern England and from parts of north and south Wales. Senior Conservation...
  • 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...