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The European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) is a threatened or vulnerable member of the bird family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons.It breeds over a wide area of the south western Palearctic including north Africa but migrates to northern sub-Saharan Africa to winter.
The Oriental turtle dove or rufous turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) is a member of the bird family Columbidae. The species has a wide native distribution range from Central Asia east across Asia to Japan. The populations show variations in the patterning of plumage and have been designated into at least six named subspecies.
The mourning dove appears as the Carolina turtle-dove on plate 286 of Audubon's Birds of America. [19] References to mourning doves appear frequently in Native American literature. Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, one of the first published Native American women authors
The turtle-dove's necklace, an 11th-century Arabic book by Ibn Hazm (also called The Ring of the Dove) "The Turtle Dove", an 18th-century English folk ballad (also called "Fare Thee Well") Turtledove General Delivery (Postlagernd Turteltaube), a 1952 West German comedy film
Streptopelia (collared doves and turtle doves) is a genus of 15 species of birds in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae native to the Old World in Africa, Europe, and Asia. These are mainly slim, small to medium-sized species.
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction.
"Fare Thee Well" (also known as "The Turtle Dove" or "10,000 Miles") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index.In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers.
The Adamawa turtle dove measures 30 to 31 cm (12–12 in) in length and weighs 147–187 g (5.2–6.6 oz). It has a silver-grey face and a blue-grey head, a distinctive dark black patch on the shoulder, with a pink belly and breast and brown upperparts edged with grey-brown. Females and juveniles are paler than the males. [2]