What can you do?
Spotted a colour ring?
Let us know!
1) Note the code and location
2) Send the details to
jenni.vreugdenhil@gmailcom
3) Check out our project
Seen a turtle dove?
Seen or heard a turtle dove?
​Register your sighting at waarneming.nl
There is also an app available​
Help turtle doves
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On Your Land?
Are you a landowner and would you like to know what you can do for turtle doves? If so, there are several options:
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Do you live on Walcheren? Currently, bespoke advice and financial support are available! A turtle dove expert can help you to improve the habitat and biodiversity in your garden, campsite, sports field (or other terrain). Click here for more information about this project.
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Do you live outside of Walcheren? Advice is still available: visit the downloads page for an advisory brochure about different measures that can help turtle doves on your land, and which other species benefit from these changes.
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Do you live in the United Kingdom? Operation Turtle Dove offers excellent advice for land managers via a PDF brochure on their website.
Report Turtle Dove Sightings
You can help us tremendously by reporting any Turtle Dove observations. This is most easily done by creating an account at www.waarneming.nl. Here, you can easily enter any observations along with the place you heard/saw the Turtle Dove and the time and date. You can also search the Waarneming maps to find out if Turtle Doves have been seen in your area.
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​​​Supplementary Feeding
If you are interested in supporting Turtle Doves in your area, you can help by participating in the BirdLife Netherlands supplementary feeding scheme. The aim of ‘Operatie Zomertortel’ is to prevent further population decline of Turtle Doves in the Netherlands. As part of this, an emergency supplementary feeding scheme was started in 2019. Will you help stop the disappearance of Turtle Doves from our landscape? Do you know of any Turtle Doves breeding in your area? Then send an e-mail to ZomerTortel@vogelbescherming.nl. For more information about the supplementary feeding scheme, please click the link below.
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Financial Support
Still want to support the Turtle Dove but don’t have much time? You can always help by financially supporting Operatie Zomertortel from BirdLife Netherlands. By giving, you can still be an integral part of our efforts to conserve Turtle Doves in the Netherlands. To learn more about Operatie Zomertortel or make a donation, please click the link below.
