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Common Wood Pigeon

Columba palumbus

Common Wood Pigeon
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Field marks

Large pigeon with a small head; have a white patch on the side of the neck and a broad white obvious in flight. Blue-grey with a pinkish breast.

Can be confused with

  • Eurasian Collared Dove — Collared Dove is pale sandy-grey and slim with a thin black half-collar on the nape — no white neck patch or white wingbar.
  • Stock Dove — Stock Dove is smaller, with no white on neck or wing, blue-grey with a glossy green neck patch and a dark eye.

Facts

Wingspan

75 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

pigeons and doves

Columbidae

Read more

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  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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