The Spotted Dove is not a Grade 2 national protected animal.

It belongs to the low-risk level of protected animals, and was included in the red list of species in 2012. The spotted dove eats: mainly fruits, seeds, grasses, young leaves and young shoots of various plants, and also crops, such as rice, corn, sorghum, millet, soybeans, mung beans, rape seeds, young snails, etc. Sometimes it also eats insects such as lepidopteran larvae and beetles.

And it forages mostly on the forest floor, forest margins and farmland cultivation. In winter, the hard core of camphor seed spat out by the thrush after eating camphor seed becomes an important food source for the mountain spotted dove.

Life habits of the turtledove:

Inhabiting the forested areas of mountains, foothills or plains, the turtledove is mainly active in small groups of a few in the forest edges, cultivated fields and their vicinity. In the fall and winter season, it moves to the plains, often roosting in groups with the bead-necked turtle dove. Flight like pigeons, often gliding. The sound is monotonous and low, and the alertness is very high. Foraging for sorghum, wheat seeds, rice and fruits, sometimes also eat insect larvae.