wood pigeon

wood pigeon

English

Adult wood pigeon in Birmingham, England

wood pigeon

New Zealand Pigeon

Alternative forms

• woodpigeon, wood-pigeon

Noun

wood pigeon (plural wood pigeons)

1. The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
2. Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
3. A very large (up to 650 grams) species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

Synonyms

• (Columba palumbus): culver, cushat, common woodpigeon, quist, zoozoo
• (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae): kereru, kererū, kūkū, kūkupa, New Zealand pigeon

Translations

Columba palumbus

Armenian: հավփալ (hy) (havpʿal) Catalan: tudó (ca) m Chechen: кечал-кхокха (kečal-qoqa) Czech: holub hřivnáč m Dutch: houtduif (nl) m or f Finnish: sepelkyyhky (fi) French: ramier (fr), palombe (fr) Galician: pombo (gl) m, torcaza (gl) f German: Ringeltaube (de), Holztaube Greek: φάσσα f (fássa) Hungarian: örvös galamb Italian: colombaccio Japanese: 森鳩 (モリバト, moribato) Latin: palumbēs c Low German: Holtduuv (nds) f Norman: pigeon ramyi m, pigeon sauvage m

Norwegian: Bokmål: ringdue (no) m or f Nynorsk: ringdue f Occitan: ramièr Old English: wuduculfre f Persian: ماسوچه‎ (mâsuče) Portuguese: pombo torcaz m Romanian: porumbel gulerat m Russian: вя́хирь (ru) m (vjáxirʹ), витю́тень (ru) m (vitjútenʹ) Scottish Gaelic: calman-coille m Spanish: paloma torcaz (es) f, torcaz (es) Swedish: ringduva (sv) Tajik: фохта (foxta) Volapük: fotapijun (vo) Welsh: ysguthan

See also

• Wood pigeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• New Zealand pigeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Columba palumbus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• wood pigeon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• pigeonwood