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Columba palumbus ssp. palumbus🕊️

Photo: Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesColumbiformesColumbidae
Birds

🕊️Common Wood Pigeon

Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758

モリバト（学名Columba palumbus）は、ハト目ハト科に分類される鳥類の一種。 旧北区・エチオピア区に生息する。

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Measurements
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≈ 1/130th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.49 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Wood Pigeon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.49 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.49 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.15 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.25 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Wood Pigeon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderColumbiformes
  5. ›familyColumbidae
  6. ›genusColumba
  7. ›speciesColumba palumbus
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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Closest relative on this site
🕊️ Eurasian Collared Dove — last shared an ancestor ≈ 17 million years ago.
In other languages
houtduif (nl), Pigeon ramier (fr), 斑尾林鸽 (zh), Grzywacz (pl), paloma torcaz (es), örvös galamb (hu) … and 27 more languages
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