Common wood pigeon
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The common wood pigeon, also known simply as the wood pigeon, is a large pigeon native to the western Palearctic. It belongs to the genus Columba, which includes closely related species such as the ro
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Common wood pigeon perched on a fence. Photograph taken in Cambridge, England
Adult common wood pigeon, photograph taken in Birmingham, England
Adult sitting on its nest in a tree
Stock dove
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The stock dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons. It is widely distributed in the western Palearctic, north to central Scandinavia and south to northwest Africa. Wes
Common wood pigeon
…Fossil records of the species are known from the early Middle Pleistocene of Sicily. The three Western European Columba pigeons, common wood pigeon, stock dove and rock dove, though superficially alike, have very distinctive characteristics; the common wood pigeon may be identified at once by its larger size…
Pigeon colombin, Parc de Woluwe, Bruxelles
Pair of stock doves in courtship display outside their nest hole
Columba oenas egg