Turtledove

Turtledove or turtle dove may refer to:

Fauna

• Various bird species, especially of the genus Streptopelia in the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons):
  • European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)
  • Oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis)
  • Dusky turtle dove (Streptopelia lugens)
  • Adamawa turtle dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha)
  • Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)

People

• Harry Turtledove (born 1949), historian and author who writes historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels

Places

• Turtle Dove Shoal, a rocky shoal in the Indian Ocean
• Turtledove Cay, United States Virgin Islands, a small islet, located 100 yards north of Saba Island in the United States Virgin Islands

Business

• Adidas Yeezy 350 Turtle Dove, a type of shoe in the Adidas Yeezy range
• Turtledove Clemens, a marketing communications agency in Portland, Oregon, USA

Literature and film

• The turtle-dove's necklace, an 11th-century Arabic book by Ibn Hazm (also called The Ring of the Dove)
• "The Turtle Dove", an 18th-century English folk ballad (also called "Fare Thee Well")
• Turtledove General Delivery (Postlagernd Turteltaube), a 1952 West German comedy film