Birds that migrate the greatest distances have more new neurons in the regions of the brain responsible for navigation and spatial orientation than those that stay closer to home. By comparing ...

If you are expecting a gift of two turtle doves from your true love this Christmas, you may be disappointed. For the bird, celebrated in the Twelve Days of Christmas, is in peril, conservationists ...

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 ...

13:41, Wed, Jun 24, 2015 Updated: 13:57, Wed, Jun 24, 2015 The mystery migration route of the turtle dove – the beautiful, dappled bird that features in the Twelve Days of Christmas – has been ...

European commission investigating violations of the EU bird directive after Malta allows 5,000 turtle doves to be shot, says Karmenu Vella Malta should consider a temporary ban on the shooting of ...

The European Turtle-dove - a familiar and beloved bird widespread in culture and folklore - is now Vulnerable to extinction. But not everyone is listening to its cry for help. Discover the threats it ...

New research into Britain's fastest declining bird species has found that young turtle doves raised on a diet of seeds foraged from non-cultivated arable plants rather than food provided in people's ...

Farmland birds in Britain have declined to their lowest numbers ever recorded, despite efforts in some parts of the country to protect them from damaging changes to their habitats. The number of birds ...

Turtle doves have seen numbers plummet as farmland bird populations reached new record lows, official figures have shown. Numbers of 19 species of bird which breed or feed on farmland are now half ...

Bird seed may be having the unintended consequence of malnourishing the chicks of one of Britain’s most endangered birds. Turtle dove numbers have declined by 98 per cent since 1970, and in order to ...

More than 500 enthusiasts stumped up £5 a head to slip quietly into Steve Akers’ home in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and peer into the garden beyond. At one stage the queue stretched for more than a ...