Description
Illustration of Columba palumbus Linn., (Wood Pigeon)
Date between 1832 and 1837
Source John Gould: The Birds of Europe, vol. 4 pl. 1, Bibliothèque nationale de France http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b23000047/f1/
Author Edward Lear (1812–1888) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_pigeon.jpg

The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) is a large species in the dove and pigeon family. It belongs to the Columba genus and, like all pigeons and doves, belongs to the family Columbidae. It is locally known in southeast England as the "culver"; This name has given rise to several areas known for keeping pigeons to be named after it, such as Culver Down. In the colder northern and eastern parts of its Europe and western Asia range the common wood pigeon is a migrant, but in southern and western Europe it is a well distributed and often abundant resident. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Columba, Species: Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758.