stock dove (Columba oenas) Description
Illustration of Columba oenas Linn. (Stock Dove)
Date between 1832 and 1837
Source John Gould https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Gould : The Birds of Europe, vol. 4 pl. 2, Bibliothèque nationale de France http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b23000047/f2/
Author Drawn from Nature and on Stone by John and Elizabeth Gould.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stock_Dove.jpg
The stock dove (Columba oenas) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons. The stock dove is the rarest of the wild European pigeons. In part of its European and western Asiatic range it is a migrant. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Columba, Species: Columba oenas Linnaeus, 1758.
