Editing Turtur

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| name = Wood doves
| image = ChalcopeliaGronvold.jpg 
| image_caption = ''[[Turtur chalcospilos]]'' (behind) and ''[[Turtur afer]]'' (front) by [[Henrik Grönvold]]
| taxon = Turtur
| authority = [[Pieter Boddaert|Boddaert]], 1783
| type_species = ''[[Blue-spotted wood dove|Columba afra]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=66 |title= Columbidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
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'''''Turtur''''' is a small genus of [[Columbidae|dove]]s native to [[Sub-Saharan Africa]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=''Turtur''|url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-5231786.html|access-date=2021-12-19|website=[[mindat.org]]}}</ref> Species in this genus are known as '''wood doves'''.

The genus ''Turtur'' was introduced in 1783 by the Dutch naturalist [[Pieter Boddaert]] to accommodate the [[blue-spotted wood dove]] (''Turtur afer'').<ref>{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | place=Utrecht | page=10 Number 160 | url=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822660 | language=fr }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=112 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477827 }}</ref> The word ''Turtur'' is Latin for "turtle dove".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=393 }}</ref>

==Species==
The genus contains five species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | year=2020 | title=Pigeons | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/pigeons/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=13 March 2020 }}</ref>
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution
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|[[File:Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur chalcospilos in Kruger National Park (13877683603).jpg|120px]] ||  ''Turtur chalcospilos''|| [[Emerald-spotted wood dove]]|| eastern and southern Africa.  
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|[[File:Blackbilledwooddove.jpg|120px]] || ''Turtur abyssinicus''||[[Black-billed wood dove]]||   Africa just south of the Sahara Desert. 
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|[[File:Turtur afer -Gambia-8.jpg|120px]] ||  ''Turtur afer''|| [[Blue-spotted wood dove]]||  Africa south of the Sahel
|-
|[[File:2007 08 05 Tambourine Dove.jpg|120px]] || ''Turtur tympanistria''|| [[Tambourine dove]]||  from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa
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|[[File:Stavenn Turtur brehmeri 00.jpg|120px]] ||  ''Turtur brehmeri''||[[Blue-headed wood dove]]|| African tropical rainforest.  
|-
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==References==
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[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa]]


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