Talk:Common wood pigeon

message: Is there evidence that chick wood pigeons can fly as young as 16 days?
This seems to be very young to me.
:many pigoen species are fledged in about two weeks from hatching, but the only source I can readily find says 20-35, so I've amended the entry jimfbleak 17:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fledging

message: I have got a pair of Wood Pigeons with their 2 babies that found my balcony and I feed them.  One of them will come in my balcony door into my sitting room to let us know if they want more food!!  Can anyone tell me how you tell the difference between a male and female Wood Pigeon?  My daughter, my granddaughters and I are very happy that this family of Wood Pigeons has chosen us to visit several times a day.  It would be interesting to know which one is the Dad and which one is the Mum.  The babies are very nervous but very cute.
:The juveniles lack the white neck patches, but the male and female plumages are identical. 16:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture is on this page ok.  Thank you for your interest.  I hope that you can get a better focus picture that can go on the article page.  If it is not in the correct position on the article page I am sure someone will straigten it up.  The main thing (at fisrt) is to get the picture on the page (or this page) somewhere. Can you also report exactly how old the bird is from hatching?  It will get small white patches which get bigger over the next 3 to 6 months - I am not sure about the exact timing. Snowman 09:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wood pigeon sexes 

message: It seems to me and dad (quite unscientifically) that Wood Dove is slowly gaining territory into the "civilization", in at least Sweden, on the loss of City Dove (Rock Doves). Is this just my imagination, or is there actually a trend? Said: Rursus 04:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Replacing city-dove (Rock dove)?

message: I noticed that the male woodpidgeon's courtship dance isn't mentioned in the artice, despite being quite notable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.23.28.224 (talk) 17:42, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sex Dance" 

message: A whipcrack is the sonic boom from the tip of a whip accelerating through the speed of sound (approx 330m/s).
Pigeon wings can beat at up to around 10 beats per second, and might be up to 20cm long(?). The wingtip might then be moving at as much as 400 cm per second (4 m/s). 
Also, whipcrack effects would surely cause serious damage to flight feathers. 
If you restore this, please cite.
MrDemeanour (talk) 12:27, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whipcrack 

message: I was just wondering whether a bird expert could tell me what gender the "adult in Birmingham, England" is.-Thanks ReedBlower (talk) 13:05, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi 

message: >The nests are vulnerable to attack, particularly by crows, because they live in the countryside, the more so early in the year when the leaf cover is not fully formed.
This sentence is very confusing, because it is ambiguously worded: I assume the intention is that wood pigeon nests are vulnerable to attacks by crows because both crows and wood pigeons often nest in rural areas; but because of the construction of the sentence, it is not clear what "they" is referring to. As well, this fact has no source cited, so I can not easily confirm the correct information and revise this sentence.
If anyone can find a source for this, I would suggest this sentence should be revised either to make it fully unambiguous or to correct the given information. Otherwise, if no one can provide a source for it, this should probably be deleted from the page. AllArtAfterAll (talk) 13:46, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence was just conjecture. "Living in the countryside" is a bit meaningless considering that is where a lot of birds live. Woodpigeons can breed early in the year and with less leaf cover, it is an interesting hypothesis that this would make them vulnerable but without some valid research to back this up, it has no place on Wikipedia. Periglio (talk) 07:16, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous sentence