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Wood pigeon   /wʊd pˈɪdʒən/   Listen
Wood pigeon

noun
1.
Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck.  Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, ringdove.






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"Wood pigeon" Quotes from Famous Books



... stems and holes of the fallen timber with luxuriant tufts of a species of hart's-tongue fern, which grows almost as freely as an orchid on decayed timber. I was so still and silent that innumerable forest birds came about me. A wood pigeon alighted on a branch close by, and sat preening her radiant plumage in a bath of golden sunlight. The profound stillness was stirred now and then by a soft sighing breeze which passed over the tree tops, and made the delicate foliage of the undergrowth around ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker



Words linked to "Wood pigeon" :   Columba palumbus, pigeon, Columba, genus Columba



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