Small game - birds

Streptopelia turtur

The turtledove (Streptopelia turtur) is a bird of the Pigeon family. It is also found in Bulgaria. The woodpecker has a slightly pronounced age dimorphism. Adult birds reach a body length of 27-29 cm, a wingspan of 48-53 cm and a weight of 99-170 g, and the general tone of the plumage is gray. The back and wings are rusty brown, with black spots and patterns. On either side of the neck there is a patch of alternating black and grey-white stripes. The goiter and the front of the chest are of a burgundy hue. In female birds, they are lighter. the body below is whitish. The outer tail feathers are tipped with white, and the outer two with white outer fans. Juveniles resemble adults, but their backs are tinged with brown, the mottling on the sides of the neck is absent or weak, and the breast feathers are narrowly ochreous at the tip. Little cormorants have gray-blue skin covered with sparse straw-yellow down. European-Turkestan species. Breeds in Europe (except northern England, Scotland and the Scandinavian Peninsula), Asia Minor, Iran, northern Afghanistan and northern India, North Africa, the Canary Islands and the Isle of Madeira. In the east it reaches 58° E. in the Urals. It winters in the southern parts of the Sahara, Senegal and Sudan.