This document accompanies an .inp data file with mark-dead recovery data from Turtle Doves ringed in the Netherlands between 1930 and 2017.

The collection of the data and the usage of the dataset is described in:
D Vries, E.H.J., Foppen, R.P.B., Van Der Jeugd, H. & Jongejans, E.(2021). Searching for the causes of decline in the Dutch population of European Turtle Doves (Streptopelia turtur). Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.13031

Users of the data file are encouraged to cite the associated paper and to contact the paper authors.