Operation Turtledove: Race on to save UK's fastest declining bird species

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The number of turtle doves in the UK have plummeted by 99% since the late 1960s with only 2,100 breeding pairs remaining.

However a conservation site in Kent is helping the country's bird population bounce back as Sky's Alice Porter explains.

Read more here:
https://news.sky.com/story/operation-turtledove-how-conservationists-are-racing-to-save-uks-fastest-declining-bird-species-13034199

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