Usage of "wild pigeon"

Russian

странствующие голуби

Portuguese

pombo passageiro

Spanish

paloma migradora

Catalan

ectopistes migratorius

Extinct species of North American pigeon, most abundant bird on Earth before extinction.

ectopistes migratorius

Related terms

странствующие голуби

Usage of wild pigeon in English

These combined characters are not found in any wild pigeon besides C. livia. 
 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume... 

Take the case of the wild pigeon, a subject that especially delights Mr. Darwin. 
 Life: Its True Genesis 

Truly, Tayoga, this wild pigeon has a most savory taste! 
 The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods 

Two days afterwards I shot a wild pigeon in a cleft high up behind the palace. 
 The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 

I have often thrust the wild pigeon, freshly killed, into my game-bag, glittering like an opal. 
 The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire 

There was a kind of wild pigeon that built its home in a hole in the rock. 
 An American Robinson Crusoe 

No, Harry, it is really and truly the wild pigeon of America of which I am speaking. 
 True Stories about Dogs and Cats 

Not, Depape thought, a wild pigeon. 
 Wizard and glass 

Omee mee The wild pigeon. 
 In the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of ... 

Blue jays, two or three small hawks, a solitary wild pigeon, and ruffled grouse were seen along the route. 
 Wake-Robin 

I, a Sagamore, know better than to deny a fire its ashes, or a wild pigeon its magic flight. 
 The Hidden Children 

The 'mast' of the beech-tree, of which the wild pigeon is so fond, was showering down among the dead leaves. 
 The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire 

In 1867, the State of New York found that the wild pigeon needed protection, and enacted a law to that effect. 
 Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation 

Swift of flight and shapely in body is the North American wild pigeon, running upon the air fleeter than Anacreon's dove. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 / A Magazi... 

There might be seen occasionally starting up before the intruding wanderer, partridges, hares, quails, the wild pigeon, the fox, or even 
 Byeways in Palestine 

The wild pigeon sat secure above our heads, high on the dead limbs of naval pines, reduced to a robin's size. 
 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 