Bay Area birders are aflutter over the recent sighting of a rare species of turtle dove only spotted on two previous occasions in the state of California, according to reports in the Mercury News and ...

An Oriental turtle-dove is photographed through a scope perched in a tree at the corner of Colorado Avenue and Higgins Place around 11 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A bird sighted ...

It is, according to the familiar Christmas carol, of particular significance on the second day of Christmas. But a new study shows that the turtle dove is verging on extinction in the UK following a ...

The cultural stories attached to the turtle dove are so complicated, so varied, that you could well imagine them framing one of those riddles you find inside a Christmas cracker. ‘Which bird, named ...

Federal wildlife managers are proposing endangered species protections for a rare freshwater turtle found only in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday that ...