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Common Wood Pigeon
Columba palumbus · Family Columbidae
Columba palumbus
Family Columbidae
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 9,412,422
- Countries and territories with records
- 92
About this species
This species has 9,412,422 occurrence records from 92 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (18.4%), France (15.2%), Sweden (12.1%), the Netherlands (10.1%) and Spain (8.4%); together they account for 64.2% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 2.7% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Columba palumbus combines the genus name Columba with the species epithet palumbus. The Warbla app catalog lists 29 species of the genus Columba; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Columba livia, Columba oenas and Columba guinea.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 314 species of the family Columbidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Zenaida macroura. Its record count is 31.7 times the family average (296,782). The family Columbidae belongs to the order Columbiformes, which has 314 species in the Warbla app catalog.