Thorny topic
"Why can't we hunt in Italy while other European countries allow it?" or "What are you actually doing for the wood dove ?" These are the questions most often asked by the Italian Wood Pigeon Coordination, a working group that brings together enthusiasts of the magnificent "blue bird," when addressing this topic.
The importance of scientific bases
Legitimate questions that deserve clear answers: today, the turtle dove species is included in a European system of monitoring and adaptive management: monitoring of breeding populations is necessary, habitat restoration is necessary, and data on harvests is needed. Without solid scientific basis, turtle dove hunting cannot be reopened.
Habitat and data collection
The creation of the Italian Wood Pigeon Coordination is already a concrete first result. It means there are trained people—researchers, volunteers, and hunters—who have chosen to engage in an organized manner, with a structured project, to work on habitat, data collection, and future strategy. Click this link to learn more about the article edited by the Coordination.
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Abroad every year I spend a few weeks hunting only turtle doves, I shoot tons of them and enjoy it, all in compliance with local law, then each spit is two meters long and it also gives me satisfaction the fact that I feed many families with these turtle doves.
Abroad every year I spend a few weeks hunting only turtle doves, I shoot tons of them and enjoy it, all in compliance with local law, then each spit is two meters long and it also gives me satisfaction the fact that I feed many families with these turtle doves.