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Where does the Common Wood-Pigeon live?

Columba palumbus has 9,376,381 records in 91 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Common Wood-Pigeon
Common Wood-Pigeon — Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeColumba

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 1,731,145
France 1,424,899
Sweden 1,133,011
Netherlands 949,598
Spain 786,458
Denmark 704,571
Germany 681,680
Norway 442,461
Belgium 426,238
Portugal 232,408
Finland 134,863
Italy 101,765
Czechia 93,160
Poland 68,715
Ireland 67,415
Switzerland 46,241
Russia 41,370
Austria 38,134
Estonia 37,467
Serbia 28,673
Hungary 21,126
Ukraine 20,502
Bulgaria 16,765
Luxembourg 13,418
Türkiye 13,380
Slovakia 12,112
Croatia 10,747
Cyprus 10,383
Morocco 9,108
Isle of Man 9,002
Lithuania 7,672
Belarus 7,253
Romania 6,610
Slovenia 5,736
Iran 5,094
Greece 4,043
Latvia 3,299
Georgia 2,700
Jersey 2,484
Åland Islands 2,387

Showing the top 40 of 91 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.