Rock dove
Columba livia
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Columba livia
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Tiny (under 10 cm)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Towns and farms, Mountains
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Pigeons can find their way home from more than 1,000 kilometres away.
- Both parents feed their chicks crop milk, a nutritious fluid made in their own throat.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q42326 · All animals · All entries