stock doves and their cousins

No its not a wood pigeon, its one of the lovliest pigeons/doves we have in this country, its a stock dove and thankfully there are still a lot about.

Thats unlike its cousin the turtle dove a most glorious bird that purrs like a cat or a frog according to who you listen to which is incredibly rare nowadays, why well being blasted from the sky and trapped in every way known to man as it makes it way north from africa every spring doesnt help.

So find yourself a stock dove and say a prayer for it and its cousin the turtle dove, we need them both but I suspect stock doves might be around a bit longer the way things are going.