{"id":157671,"date":"2025-09-20T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:44:03","slug":"rare-turtle-doves-have-baby-in-new-home-in-minster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157671\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare turtle doves have baby in new home in Minster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A pair of rare migrating turtle doves ushered to a temporary home in Kent to avoid getting caught up in improvement works have had a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The luring process began in June through efforts from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Environment Agency (EA) and Southern Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Concerned that noise from an equipment refurbishment site in Minster would disturb the migration process, EA staff asked Southern Water to lure the birds with special bird seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The process was a success, with the pair of turtle doves and the juvenile captured by motion sensor cameras installed at the water firm&#8217;s temporary site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Nicole Khan, conservation officer at the RSPB, said the collaboration had been a success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Turtle doves are Europe&#8217;s only migratory dove and spend the winter south of the Sahara, so we are keen to encourage them to the UK whenever we can,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The RSPB said the number of turtle doves in the UK had fallen by 99% since the 1960s, though those breeding in Western Europe increased by 40% between 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Mike Thomas, a field performance manager at Southern Water, said that diverting turtle doves &#8220;isn&#8217;t part of my job description, but I&#8217;m always help if I can&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of rare migrating turtle doves ushered to a temporary home in Kent to avoid getting caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-157671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}