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European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)🕊️

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SpeciesColumbiformesColumbidae
Birds

🕊️European turtle dove

Streptopelia turtur (Linnaeus, 1758)

유럽멧비둘기(European turtle dove, 학명: Streptopelia turtur)는 비둘기과의 새의 하나이다. 북아메리카를 포함한 구북구 남서부에서 널리 볼 수 있으나 북부 사하라이남 아프리카로 겨울을 난다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.13 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
13 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European turtle dove

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.13 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.17 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
13 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European turtle dove yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderColumbiformes
  5. ›familyColumbidae
  6. ›genusStreptopelia
  7. ›speciesStreptopelia turtur
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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Closest relative on this site
🕊️ Eurasian Collared Dove — last shared an ancestor ≈ 9.6 million years ago.
In other languages
turkawka zwyczajna (pl), Tórtola europea (es), vadgerle (hu), Τρυγόνι (el), قمري (ar), turturduva (sv) … and 26 more languages
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