Common Wood Pigeon: Nest & eggs

The Common Wood Pigeon is an open nester that builds a remarkably simple nest.

  • Location: a flimsy platform of twigs in a tree, hedge or bush.
  • Construction: the nest is so sparse that the eggs can sometimes be glimpsed from below; both sexes build.
  • Young: usually 2 white eggs, and the young are fed on nutritious crop milk produced by both parents — which is why the Wood Pigeon can breed well into autumn.

The Wood Pigeon does not use nest boxes.

More about the Common Wood Pigeon

  • Song & calls
  • Breeding
  • Diet
  • In winter
  • Migration
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