What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Wood-Pigeon been recorded?

Columba palumbus occurrence evidence comes from 1,503,870 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1791 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Wood-Pigeon
Common Wood-Pigeon — Photo (display-sized rendition): Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesColumbiformesColumbidaeColumba

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,503,870 records across 46 countries and territories, 1791–2026.

Columba palumbus · GBIF taxon key 2495455

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Common Wood-Pigeon has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Wood-Pigeon. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 1,064,900
Belgium 379,901
Spain 16,529
Germany 11,032
Luxembourg 9,754
Austria 9,527
United Kingdom 9,455
Netherlands 691
France 425
Georgia 363
Russia 258
Czechia 191
Denmark 156
Italy 111
Poland 80
Finland 53
Estonia 50
Ireland 50
Andorra 46
Portugal 45
Ukraine 32
Switzerland 30
Norway 29
Belarus 18
Iran 17
Hungary 15
Lithuania 14
Morocco 13
Uzbekistan 11
Romania 9
Slovakia 9
Cyprus 8
Iraq 8
Latvia 8
Croatia 5
Greece 4
Jersey 4
Azerbaijan 3
Bosnia & Herzegovina 3
Slovenia 3

Showing the top 40 of 46 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.