BrokenWing Chronicles
The Turtle Dove
This is a very beautiful and innocent bird, and no one is mentioned more frequently in the Bible. It does not live upon the flesh of animals: so when Noah sent one out of the ark, she soon came back again, because she could find nothing to eat, and no rest for the sole of her foot. Noah put out his hand and gently took her in, and she did not go out again for a whole week. Then Noah let her fly, and the beautiful creature came back in the evening, having in her mouth a green leaf which she had plucked from an olive-tree; as though she wanted to tell him that the waters were beginning to dry up. After another week she went out, and did not come back again to the ark, because the earth was dry.


http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidli...lia_turtur.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_dove

The Spotted Turtle Dove
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheet...urtle_dove.htm

Ringed Turtle Dove
http://home.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/Streptopelia.html

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