Rock Pigeon
The rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon ( also ; Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).: 624 In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon". The domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica, which includes about 1,000 different breeds) descended from this species. Escaped domestic pigeons have increased the populations of feral pigeons around the world.Wild rock doves are pale grey with two black bars on each wing, whereas domestic and feral pigeons vary in…
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
By hour of day
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
Where heard
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.