Wood pigeon Columba palumbus

Large pigeon with grey upperparts and white bars on wings

Habitat: forests, woods, hedges, fields, towns, gardens and heaths

Very common resident

Grey upperparts, pinkish breast, white neck slash; white bars on wings

Forms large flocks on fields, often roosting in trees; wing-clapping display flight

Eats grain, seed and crops; originally a woodland bird, has adapted to agricultural food

Nest is a twig platform in tree

3 Broods April to June; 2 white eggs