wood-pigeon

Next, hidden under the water of the brook in a netted hand-bag, he brought to light the carcass of a fat wood-pigeon he had snared the previous day.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

For the most part it was a silent forest, lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon cooed or snow - white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.

Chapter 24 2010

Kellen had been glad to find that they would be trading a quantity of smoked venison and wood-pigeon pickled in brine for an equal weight of salt-beef, preserved eggs, and dried fish (though Idalia warned him he'd be very tired of all of them by spring).

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

I heard the whisper of wood-pigeon wings as a pair slipped away into the darkness.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I heard the whisper of wood-pigeon wings as a pair slipped away into the darkness.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

A hedgehog once too up his abode by the side of a date-palm, whereon roosted a wood-pigeon and his wife that had built their next there and lived a life of ease and enjoyment.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thereupon he sprang to the door and gnashed his teeth, and the wood-pigeon, seeing his perfidy manifested, said to him, What hath to-night to do with yester-night?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

These include the Ryukyu pigeon (Columba jouyi) and Bonin wood-pigeon (C. versicolor), the Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris), and the Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), a monotypic genus.

Biological diversity in Japan 2008

Asked the wood-pigeon, “What then shall I do that I may be freed from the bonds of the world and cut myself loose from all things save the service of my Lord?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The distributions of the Nilgiri wood-pigeon, Malabar grey hornbill, grey-headed bulbul, rufous babbler, and the Malabar parakeet also extend down to the surrounding moist deciduous forests.

North Western Ghats montane rain forests 2007