Wood Pigeon Window Print

Columbiformes

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 16 November 2018.

A wood pigeon must have crashed into our glass doors with such a force as to leave a marked imprint, which remained clearly visible for quite some time.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 29 November 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 10 December 2018.

[Columba palumbus, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common wood pigeon]

The sound of the wood pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)

Distribution and sightings of the wood pigeon across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).