Oriental Turtle Dove breeding in the Western Palearctic

ABSTRACT Hitherto regarded as a rare vagrant to the Western Palearctic, the Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis is now known to breed at two sites at least, and probably breeds at two others, in the extreme east of the region, just within the Western Palearctic boundary in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Details are presented of the species' distribution in the west of its range and brief no

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