Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (46)
- Subspecies (5)
Luis F. Baptista, Pepper W. Trail, H. M. Horblit, Peter F. D. Boesman, and Ernest Garcia
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 24, 2018
Text last updated September 24, 2018
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Gugashi |
| Arabic | حمام الغاب/ ورشان |
| Armenian | Անտառային աղավնի |
| Asturian | Palombu torcaz |
| Azerbaijani | İri meşə göyərçini |
| Basque | Pagausoa |
| Bulgarian | Гривяк |
| Catalan | tudó |
| Chinese (SIM) | 斑尾林鸽 |
| Croatian | golub grivnjaš |
| Czech | holub hřivnáč |
| Danish | Ringdue |
| Dutch | Houtduif |
| English | Common Wood-Pigeon |
| English (UK) | Common Woodpigeon |
| English (United States) | Common Wood-Pigeon |
| Faroese | Mánadúgva |
| Finnish | sepelkyyhky |
| French | Pigeon ramier |
| French (France) | Pigeon ramier |
| Galician | Pombo torcaz |
| German | Ringeltaube |
| Greek | Φάσσα |
| Hebrew | יונת ענק |
| Hungarian | Örvös galamb |
| Icelandic | Hringdúfa |
| Italian | Colombaccio |
| Japanese | モリバト |
| Latvian | Lauku balodis |
| Lithuanian | Keršulis |
| Mongolian | Ойн тагтаа |
| Norwegian | ringdue |
| Persian | کبوتر جنگلی |
| Polish | grzywacz |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Pombo-torcaz |
| Portuguese (RAA) | Pombo-torcaz |
| Romanian | Porumbel gulerat |
| Russian | Вяхирь |
| Serbian | Golub grivnaš |
| Slovak | holub hrivnák |
| Slovenian | Grivar |
| Spanish | Paloma Torcaz |
| Spanish (Spain) | Paloma torcaz |
| Swedish | ringduva |
| Turkish | Tahtalı |
| Ukrainian | Припутень |
Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758
PROTONYM:
Columba Palumbus
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.163.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe and Asia; restricted type locality, Sweden, ex Fn. Svec.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- COLUMBA
- columba
- palumbus
- Palumbus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Common Wood-Pigeon
