columbiform bird

Definitions of columbiform bird

1. noun

   a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
   types:

   Raphus cucullatus, dodo

   extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons

   Pezophaps solitaria, solitaire

   extinct flightless bird related to the dodo

   pigeon

   wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

   sand grouse, sandgrouse

   pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young

   pouter, pouter pigeon

   one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out

   dove

   any of numerous small pigeons

   Columba livia, rock dove, rock pigeon

   pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended

   Columba fasciata, band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, bandtail

   wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon

   Columba palumbus, cushat, ringdove, wood pigeon

   Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck

   domestic pigeon

   domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food

   squab

   an unfledged pigeon

   Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeon

   gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct

   Pterocles indicus, painted sandgrouse

   sandgrouse of India

   Pterocles alchata, pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrouse

   sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers

   Syrrhaptes paradoxus, pallas's sandgrouse

   Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly

   type of:

   gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

   heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds