Rock dove

Rock Dove - species of pigeon; the wild bird from which domesticated pigeons derive. This taxon is the 618^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 851^st most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Rock dove” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 96 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Rock dove” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rock dove”, its content was written by 487 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2632 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9219^th place).

Rock Dove is on the 851^st place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 618^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 844 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4712 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2193 in May 2003
• Global: #803 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20219 in May 2023
• Global: #11111 in May 2022

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Голуб сизий		97.2436
2	English (en) Rock dove		91.4377
3	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		84.1709
4	Swedish (sv) Klippduva		79.0294
5	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		71.1791
6	Spanish (es) Columba livia		68.306
7	Catalan (ca) Colom (ocell)		63.6603
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		53.6111
9	Esperanto (eo) Kolombo		49.8735
10	Malay (ms) Merpati biasa		49.0732

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rock dove" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock dove		4 686 907
2	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		1 733 392
3	Italian (it) Columba livia		980 850
4	Spanish (es) Columba livia		949 052
5	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		885 059
6	French (fr) Pigeon biset		819 684
7	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		720 482
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		651 743
9	Romanian (ro) Porumbel		356 737
10	Persian (fa) کبوتر چاهی		337 109

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rock dove" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock dove		35 173
2	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		9 587
3	Spanish (es) Columba livia		5 995
4	French (fr) Pigeon biset		5 697
5	Italian (it) Columba livia		5 271
6	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		4 860
7	German (de) Felsentaube		3 639
8	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		2 688
9	Chinese (zh) 原鸽		2 150
10	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		1 857

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Rock dove" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rock dove		487
2	Italian (it) Columba livia		232
3	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		205
4	French (fr) Pigeon biset		203
5	Japanese (ja) カワラバト		101
6	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		98
7	Polish (pl) Gołąb skalny		89
8	Spanish (es) Columba livia		84
9	German (de) Felsentaube		80
10	Dutch (nl) Rotsduif		79

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Rock dove" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		4
2	English (en) Rock dove		2
3	Italian (it) Columba livia		2
4	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		2
5	Esperanto (eo) Kolombo		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kalliokyyhky		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Skalni golob		1
8	Arabic (ar) حمام طوراني		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Çöl göyərçini		0
10	Belarusian (be) Шызы голуб		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Rock dove" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rock dove		844
2	Catalan (ca) Colom (ocell)		331
3	Ukrainian (uk) Голуб сизий		327
4	Portuguese (pt) Columba livia		282
5	Italian (it) Columba livia		264
6	Russian (ru) Сизый голубь		233
7	Spanish (es) Columba livia		202
8	Esperanto (eo) Kolombo		192
9	French (fr) Pigeon biset		192
10	Romanian (ro) Porumbel		141

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حمام طوراني
az	Azerbaijani Çöl göyərçini
be	Belarusian Шызы голуб
bg	Bulgarian Скален гълъб
ca	Catalan Colom (ocell)
cs	Czech Holub skalní
da	Danish Klippedue
de	German Felsentaube
el	Greek Περιστέρι
en	English Rock dove
eo	Esperanto Kolombo
es	Spanish Columba livia
et	Estonian Kaljutuvi
eu	Basque Haitz-uso
fa	Persian کبوتر چاهی
fi	Finnish Kalliokyyhky
fr	French Pigeon biset
gl	Galician Pomba dos penedos
he	Hebrew יונת הסלע
hr	Croatian Divlji golub
hu	Hungarian Szirti galamb
hy	Armenian Թխակապույտ աղավնի
id	Indonesian Merpati karang
it	Italian Columba livia
ja	Japanese カワラバト
ka	Georgian გარეული მტრედი
kk	Kazakh Көк кептер
ko	Korean 바위비둘기
la	Latin Columba livia
lt	Lithuanian Uolinis karvelis
ms	Malay Merpati biasa
nl	Dutch Rotsduif
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Klippedue
no	Norwegian Klippedue
pl	Polish Gołąb skalny
pt	Portuguese Columba livia
ro	Romanian Porumbel
ru	Russian Сизый голубь
sh	Serbo-Croatian Golub pećinar
simple	Simple English Rock dove
sk	Slovak Holub divý
sl	Slovenian Skalni golob
sr	Serbian Голуб пећинар
sv	Swedish Klippduva
ta	Tamil மாடப்புறா
th	Thai นกพิราบ
tr	Turkish Kaya güvercini
uk	Ukrainian Голуб сизий
ur	Urdu جنگلی کبوتر
uz	Uzbek Koʻk kaptar
vi	Vietnamese Gầm ghì đá
zh	Chinese 原鸽

Best Rank

English: #20219 05.2023

Global: #11111 05.2022

Best Rank

English: #2193 05.2003

Global: #803 05.2012

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