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European turtle dove
Streptopelia turtur · Family Columbidae
Streptopelia turtur
Family Columbidae
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 666,735
- Countries and territories with records
- 118
About this species
This species has 666,735 occurrence records from 118 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (37.5%), Spain (16.4%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Israel (5.3%) and the Netherlands (5%); together they account for 70.9% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Streptopelia turtur combines the genus name Streptopelia with the species epithet turtur. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Streptopelia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Streptopelia decaocto, Streptopelia capicola and Streptopelia semitorquata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 314 species of the family Columbidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zenaida macroura. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (296,782). The family Columbidae belongs to the order Columbiformes, which has 314 species in the Warbla app catalog.