What does it eat?

The European turtle dove is an omnivore, but it mainly feeds on seeds, berries, cereals, and grasses.  Some of its favorite types of seeds it likes to eat are mustard seeds, goosefoot seeds, fumitory seeds, sunflower seeds, alfalfa seeds, and wheat.  It also will occasionally eat earthworms, some insects, and small snails.  It typically will find all of its food on the ground, and will hardly eat the food directly from the trees where it lives.

 

Turtle dove's favorite plants

 

                                                                      

                   

                    Mustard plant                                                        White Goosefoot plant                                                          Fumaria plant

 

 

                                                                  

                   

                     Sunflower plant                                                              Alfalfa plant                                                                Wheat plant