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European turtle dove · Streptopelia turtur
FR 2024 [FRP_Migratlane 5]
Tag quiet since 20 Sept 2025
- Distance
- 343 kmalong recorded positions
- Tracked for
- 4 days16 Sept 2025 – 20 Sept 2025
- Positions
- 30GPS fixes stored
- Latest fix
- 20 Sept 202541.00°N, 5.85°W
Where FR 2024 [FRP_Migratlane 5] has been
About European turtle doves
The soft, rolling turrr-turrr of the turtle dove is a sound Europe very nearly lost: Germany has shed almost 90% of its breeding pairs since 1980, and the Netherlands is down to somewhere between 600 and 900. It is the only dove of central Europe that is a true long-distance migrant, leaving a Dutch hedgerow to cross the Sahara and winter in the Sahel, some 5,000 km away.
Data: Habitrack European Turtle Dove (Movebank study 3413045568, CC BY) via Movebank. Tracking identifier FR 2024 [FRP_Migratlane 5].