Common Wood Pigeon

species of bird
Taxon taxon Q26026
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Summary

Common Wood Pigeon is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.43% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,721 views/month, #845 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[4]
  • Parent taxon: Columba[5]
  • Taxon name: Columba palumbus[6]
  • Commons category: Columba palumbus[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Columba palumbus[8]
  • Commons gallery: Columba palumbus[9]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12]
  • Short name: C. palumbus[13]
  • Taxon common name: Common Wood Pigeon[14], Ringeltaube[15], Pigeon ramier[16], Colombaccio[17], Paloma torcaz[18], Вяхирь[19], Houtduif[20], Ringdue[21], ringduva[22], sepelkyyhky[23], grzywacz[24], holub hřivnáč[25], kaelustuvi e. meigas[26], ysguthan[27]
  • Wingspan: 0.75[28]

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Identifiers

Common Wood Pigeon's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8934[29]. Common Wood Pigeon's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2495455[30]. Common Wood Pigeon's ITIS TSN is recorded as 177103[31].

Why It Matters

Common Wood Pigeon has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · StorchPDF · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14880 → 68433
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  2. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C4644
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