European turtle dove

Key identifying features

1. 1

   Wing coverts orange-brick with black feather centres, giving a scaled tortoiseshell pattern; collared dove's wing is plain grey-buff

2. 2

   Small patch of fine black-and-white stripes on the neck side, not the single plain black collar of collared dove

3. 3

   Dark tail broadly tipped white, showing as a white crescent from below

4. 4

   Breast pale wine-pink, belly and undertail white

5. 5

   Distinctly smaller and slimmer than collared dove, with faster, flicking, more agile flight

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