Acoustic Monitoring Confirms Significant Poaching Pressure of European Turtle Doves () during Spring Migration across the Ionian Islands, Greece.

The European turtle dove () is an Afro-Palearctic migrant whose populations have declined by 79% from 1980 to 2014. In 2018, the International Single Species Action Plan for the Turtle Dove (ISSAP) was developed with the goal of enabling, by 2028, an increase in turtle dove numbers along each of the three migration flyways (western, central, eastern). To achieve this, the illegal killing of turtle doves, a critical threat to the species, has to be eradicated.