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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 migratory bird has been feted by everyone from Elvis to Shakespeare, but hunting, intensive farming and pollution have left it close to extinction in the UK Under the torrential rain of a fickle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They have long been a staple of a popular Christmas song. But the turtle dove and the partridge face crisis this winter following a dramatic fall in numbers which could put the turtle dove in danger ...