European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)πŸ•ŠοΈ

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SpeciesColumbiformesColumbidae
Birds

πŸ•ŠοΈEuropean turtle dove

Streptopelia turtur (Linnaeus, 1758)

De zomertortel (Streptopelia turtur), traditioneel bekend als tortelduif, is een lange-afstandstrekker uit de familie van de duiven (Columbidae). Het is de enige Europese duivensoort die 's winters ten zuiden van de Sahara verblijft. De soort broedt in bosschages, houtwallen, bosranden, boerenerven en fruitboomgaarden in de buurt van landbouwgebieden. De soort gaat sinds het midden van de 20e eeuw hard in aantal achteruit door de intensivering en homogenisering van de landbouw en anderzijds ook door de intense jachtdruk in de Mediterrane landen tijdens de trekperiode en in de overwinteringsgebieden.

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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
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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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Wing length
0.17 m
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Beak length
0.02 m
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Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Maximum lifespan
13 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Habitat
Woodland
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Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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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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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassAves
  4. β€ΊorderColumbiformes
  5. β€ΊfamilyColumbidae
  6. β€ΊgenusStreptopelia
  7. β€ΊspeciesStreptopelia turtur
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds Β· Aves
  4. orderPigeons & doves Β· Columbiformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds Β· Aves
  10. orderPigeons & doves Β· Columbiformes
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Closest relative on this site
πŸ•ŠοΈ Eurasian Collared Dove β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 9.6 million years ago.
In other languages
turkawka zwyczajna (pl), TΓ³rtola europea (es), vadgerle (hu), Ξ€ΟΟ…Ξ³ΟŒΞ½ΞΉ (el), Ω‚Ω…Ψ±ΩŠ (ar), turturduva (sv) … and 26 more languages
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