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.
   • 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 14:

     Idiot-eyed wood pigeons lumbered across the lawn, belly-deep in clover.

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

• Albanian: gugash (sq) m
• Arabic: وَرَشَان m (warašān)
• Aragonese: torcaz, torcazo
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܘܱܪܫܳܢܳܐ m (waršānā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: וַרְשָׁאנָא m (waršānā), אוּרְשָׁנָא m (uršānā)

• Armenian: հավփալ (hy) (havpʻal)
• Basque: pagauso
• Bulgarian: гривяк m (grivjak)
• Catalan: tudó (ca) m
• Chechen: кечал-кхокха (kečal-qoqa)
• Czech: holub hřivnáč m
• Danish: ringdue (da) c
• Dutch: houtduif (nl) m or f
• Finnish: sepelkyyhky (fi)
• French: ramier (fr) m, palombe (fr) f
• Galician: pombo (gl) m, torcaza (gl) f
• Georgian: ქედანი (ka) (kedani)
• German: Ringeltaube (de), Holztaube
• Greek: φάσσα f (fássa)

  Ancient: φάσσα f (phássa)

• Hungarian: örvös galamb (hu)
• Italian: colombaccio
• Japanese: 森鳩 (ja) (モリバト, moribato)
• Kazakh: дыркеп (dyrkep)
• Korean: 숲비둘기 (supbidulgi)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: palumbēs c
• Low German: Holtduuv (nds) f
• Middle English: cowschote
• Norman: pigeon ramyi m, pigeon sauvage m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ringdue (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: ringdue f

• Occitan: ramièr
• Old English: wuduculfre f
• Ottoman Turkish: قوسقوغوق (kuskuğuk), فاخته (fahite, fahte)
• Persian: ماسوچه (mâsuče)
• Polish: grzywacz m
• Portuguese: pombo torcaz m
• Romanian: porumbel gulerat m
• Russian: вя́хирь (ru) m (vjáxirʹ), витю́тень (ru) m (vitjútenʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: calman-coille m
• Serbo-Croatian: grivnjaš (sh) m, grivnaš (sh) m
• Sicilian: palumma (scn) f, palummu (scn) m
• Spanish: paloma torcaz (es) f, torcaz (es)
• Swedish: ringduva (sv)
• Tajik: фохта (foxta)
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: fotapijun (vo)
• Welsh: ysguthan

References

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

Anagrams

• pigeonwood