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Blackbird
Turdus merulaJFMAMJJASOND
Slow, rich, fluting phrases that wander about and often trail off into a quiet chuckle.
Birds / Pigeons and doves
Wood Pigeon
Columba palumbusAlso known as Woodpigeon and Common wood pigeon
Recording: Susanne Kuijpers / xeno-canto
Sounds like
A deep, five-note cooing phrase, 'coo-COO-coo, coo-coo', repeated a few times and ending abruptly.
Remember it
'My toe bleeds, Betty': five beats, with the stress on the second.
When and where
Listening for the wood pigeon
- Heard
- JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAll year round
- Time of day
- Dawn and Day
- Where
- Gardens, Farmland, Woodland, Towns
- In Britain
- All year
- Family
- Pigeons and doves
Could you pick out a wood pigeon?
Hear a song, choose from four birds, and build your streak.
Same habitat
Also in gardens
Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusJFMAMJJASOND
Two or three thin, high notes followed by a fast, shimmering trill: 'tsee-tsee-tsuhuhuhu'.
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsJFMAMJJASOND
A cheerful, accelerating run of notes that tumbles down and ends in a flourish, repeated over and over.
Coal Tit
Periparus aterJFMAMJJASOND
A fast, high, two-note phrase repeated several times: 'pitchoo-pitchoo-pitchoo'.