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

• 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

Anagrams

• pigeonwood