Wood pigeon, wood-pigeon or woodpigeon may refer to:
Birds
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Common wood pigeon
The common wood pigeon or common woodpigeon (''Columba palumbus''), also known as simply wood pigeon, wood-pigeon or woodpigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family (Columbidae), native to the western Palearctic. It belongs to the g ...
, endemic to Europe and western Asia
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Columba (bird)
The large bird genus ''Columba'' comprises a group of medium to large pigeons. The terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used indiscriminately for smaller and larger Columbidae, respectively. ''Columba'' species – at least those of ''Columba sensu ...
, any "Old World" pigeon
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Andaman wood pigeon (''C. palumboides'') of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Ashy wood pigeon (''C. pulchricollis'') of South and Southeast Asia
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Japanese wood pigeon
The Japanese wood pigeon (''Columba janthina'') is a species of columbid bird. It is found in East Asia along shorelines of the Pacific's Korea Strait, Philippine Sea and East China Sea. They are believed to be the largest representative of the ...
(''C. janthina'') of East Asia
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Nilgiri wood pigeon
The Nilgiri wood pigeon (''Columba elphinstonii'') is large pigeon found in the moist deciduous forests and sholas of the Western Ghats in southwestern India. They are mainly frugivorous and forage in the canopy of dense hill forests. They ar ...
(''C. elphinstonii'') of southwestern India
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Pale-capped pigeon
The pale-capped pigeon (''Columba punicea''), also known as the purple wood pigeon, is a species of large pigeon that is found patchily distributed in parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has a slow flight and spends a lot of t ...
(''C. punicea'') of South and Southeast Asia
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Sri Lanka wood pigeon (''C. torringtoniae'')
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Speckled wood pigeon (''C. hodgsonii'') of subtropical Asia
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pigeon
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
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Kererū
The kererū (''Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae'') or New Zealand pigeon is a species of pigeon native to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin described the bird in 1789 as a large, conspicuous pigeon up to in length and in weight, with a white br ...
(''Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae'') of New Zealand
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Wood doves (''Turtur'') of sub-Saharan Africa
Arts and entertainment
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Wood Pigeon (film), a 1970 Iranian drama film
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Woodpigeon (band), a Canadian indie-pop collective
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