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The Turtle Dove
is one of the most charming of the pigeon tribe. It is a migrant,
returning late to our fields and thickets. May is often here before
its deep-throated
coo comes floating through the air and we see its pretty mottled brown
form set off
by a white collar round the throat. It makes a fragile platform in hedge
or bush, lays
two white eggs and hereon rears its fat ugly squabs. For a while its
sleepy beautiful
coo delights us, then it falls silent, and soon parents and offspring
are away overseas.
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