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Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks July · Doves and Pigeons · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)
J. Patrick Fischer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Oriental Turtle Dove: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Oriental Turtle Dove has been recorded in 15 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in July.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NF71Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland42023unverified
HY75Sea, off Orkney Islands42023unverified
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland42022unverified
TA41East Riding of Yorkshire, England222021unverified
TA31East Riding of Yorkshire, England192021unverified
TQ55Kent, England412016unverified
HU39Shetland Islands, Scotland12016unverified
SP32Oxfordshire, England822011 to 2015unverified
HU43Shetland Islands, Scotland22015unverified
HU33Shetland Islands, Scotland12015unverified
NF09Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12014unverified
TM48Suffolk, England12011unverified
ND27Highland, Scotland12003unverified
HY20Orkney Islands, Scotland142002unverified
HY21Orkney Islands, Scotland12002unverified

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