Eakring Birds
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Turtle Dove .... Available maps - 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008
Since 1998, there has been a decline in the numbers of breeding pairs at Eakring and Kersall. A maximum of four pairs were found in 1998, but this has dropped to just a single breeding pair since 2006, after a gradual decline during the intervening years. Suitable and unoccupied breeding habitat is severely limited here, but still available. During the past ten years, just three sites have seen pairs breed successfully with unpaired males holding territory for short periods of time at a further three.

The Oil Bore Holes site, on the western-edge of Eakring village is the only one of these to have been used consistently since 1998, with a second pair here breeding from 1998-2002. A pair nested at High Trees (on the eastern-edge of Eakring) from 1998-2003 and although a male was present there in 2004, there was no evidence of breeding and it has remained unused since.

 
Breeding territories 1998
 
Breeding territories 1999
 
Breeding territories 2000
 
Breeding territories 2002
 
Breeding territories 2004
 
Breeding territories 2005
 
Breeding territories 2008
 
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