A small gray dove with black fringes on the feathers of ... on the underwing coverts could lead the unwary to identify such a bird as a ruddy ground-dove. The scaling of the upperparts is unique.

A large, pale gray-buff dove with a black collar ... may have escaped or been released from captivity by dove breeders, but most birds are thought to represent genuinely wild colonizers.

Turtle Doves are up in Western Europe, giving hope to the future of the UK population.