Editing European turtle dove (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
The turtle dove is a [[bird migration|migratory]] species with a western [[Palearctic]] range covering most of Europe and the Middle East and including [[Turkey]] and [[north Africa]], although it is rare in northern [[Scandinavia]] and [[Russia]]. It winters south of the Sahara.<ref name=IUCN/> It is one of the latest migrants, rarely appearing in Northern Europe before the end of April and returning south again in September.{{sfn|Cramp|1985|p=356}} Turtle doves are rare [[Vagrancy (biology)|vagrants]] in North America, with records from [[Massachusetts]] and [[Florida]] in the [[United States]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Veit |first=R. |date=2009 |title=First Record of European Turtle-Dove (''Streptopelia turtur'') for Massachusetts |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/First-Record-of-European-Turtle-Dove-turtur%3C-i%3E)-Veit/263821d93a91603e1c4c9d9e3a6ebd130555817a#:~:text=This%20article%20documents%20a%20record%20of%20European,Turde-Dove%20(Streptopelia%20turtur)%20from%20Tuckernuck%20Island,%20Nantucket, |journal=North American Birds |volume=60 |issue=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoffman |first=Wayne |last2=Smith |first2=P. William |last3=Wells |first3=Pat |date=1990 |title=A Record of the European Turtle-Dove in the Florida Keys |url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/FFN_18-4p88-90Hoffman%5B1%5D.pdf |journal=Florida Field Naturalist |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=88–90}}</ref> and an additional record from [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=Jon Lloyd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKEwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA547 |title=Field Guide to the Birds of North America |date=2017 |publisher=National Geographic Books |isbn=978-1-4262-1835-4 |page=547 |language=en}}</ref>

It is a bird of open rather than dense woodlands, and frequently feeds on the ground. It will occasionally nest in large gardens, but is usually extremely timid, probably due to the heavy hunting pressure it faces during migration. The flight is often described as arrowy, but is not remarkably swift.

The nuptial flight, high and circling, is like that of the [[common wood pigeon]], but the undulations are less decided; it is accompanied by the whip-crack of the downward flicked wings. The arrival in spring is heralded by its [[wikt:coo#Verb|coo]]ing or [[purr]]ing song, a rather deep, vibrating "{{Not a typo|''turrr, turrr''}}".