Post-fledging habitat selection in a rapidly declining farmland bird, the European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

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grassland, low-intensity grazing, fallow and quarries). Fledglings that were 32 heavier and in better body condition at seven days old were more likely to 33 survive for 30 days post-fledging, and the proportion of available seed-rich 34 habitat was a strong predictor of nestling weight and condition at seven days old. 35

Analysis of Ring Recoveries of European Turtle DovesStreptopelia turtur— Flyways, Migration Timing and Origin Areas of Hunted Birds

“…The number of chicks fledged per nest was higher in close proximity to cereal crops, and decreased gradually as the distance to the nearest cereal crop increased. This result reinforces the finding that the selection of nest-trees near cereals is beneficial for Turtle-doves (see also Browne & Aebischer, 2003, 2004Dias et al, 2013 andDunn et al, 2016).…”

“…Most studies on both European and Northwest African Turtle-doves have focused on breeding biology (Rocha & Hidalgo, 2002;Browne et al, , 2005Boukhemza et al, 2008;Eraud et al, 2009;Hanane & Baâmal, 2011;Hanane, 2012Hanane, , 2014Hanane, , 2015Kafi et al, 2015;Hanane, 2016aHanane, , 2016b, breeding habitat use (Browne & Aebisher, 2004;Browne et al, 2005;Bakaloudis et al, 2009;Dunn & Morris, 2012;Sáenz de Buruaga et al, 2012;Dias et al, 2013;Yahiaoui et al, 2014;Dunn et al, 2016), foraging habitat use (Browne & Aebisher, 2003;Dunn et al, 2015;Rocha & Quillfeldt, 2015;Gutiérrez-Galán & Alonso, 2016) and migration (Eraud et al, 2013;Lormée et al, 2016;Marx et al, 2016). Both subspecies are granivorous and are true migrants, spending the winter period (late October to late March) mostly in the Sahel region of Africa, south of the Sahara in a broad band spanning the continent roughly between 10°N and 20°N (Browne & Aebischer, 2001).…”

The decline of the Turtle Dove: Dietary associations with body condition and competition with other columbids analysed using high‐throughput sequencing

“…However, the negative relationship between fed and brassica dietary components and nestling condition, and positive association with natural dietary components, suggests that reproductive success is still reliant upon the availability of natural food resources. Elsewhere, we show that nestlings in better condition have a better chance of survival postfledging (Dunn, Morris, & Grice, ).…”

The importance of riparian forests and tree plantations for the occurrence of the European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturin an intensively cultivated agroecosystem

“…Indeed, it is well known that one of the main habitat requirements for the species is weed-rich areas (Mason and MacDonald 2000, Browne and Aebischer 2003, Dunn et al 2015, 2018. This is true because the diet of both adult and juveniles is often composed of seeds of wild species, especially common fumitory Fumaria officinalis and common chickweed Stellaria media (Murton et al 1984, Gutiérrez-Galán and Alonso 2016, Dunn et al 2017. The Turtle Dove also selects sites with high cover of tree plantations, such as poplar plantations and reforestations/SRCs.…”