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)

The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
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

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), palombe (fr)
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 (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
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

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