Profile
In flight
Pigeons & Doves
Oriental Turtle-Dove
Streptopelia orientalis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A heavy, handsome dove that drifts on long migrations across the continent, scaled neck patches glinting like fish scales. Darker and statelier than its European cousin.
- Population
- very large and broadly distributed across Asia
- Habitat
- open woodland, forest edge, agricultural fields, parks, villages
- Diet
- seeds, grains, fallen fruit, small invertebrates
- Size
- 0.33 m
- Wingspan
- 0.55 m
