Pigeon voyageur

Quality:

Homing pigeon - variety of domestic pigeon selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances. Article “Pigeon voyageur” in French Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Pigeon voyageur” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pigeon voyageur”, its content was written by 154 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1722 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 146 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2112 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #861 in September 2004
• Global: #3415 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #8257 in June 2019
• Global: #5807 in May 2013

There are 35 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	English (en) Homing pigeon		73.0214
2	Tamil (ta) வீட்டுப் புறா		64.6881
3	Estonian (et) Kirjatuvi		60.2334
4	German (de) Brieftaube		58.8749
5	Norwegian (no) Brevdue		46.0547
6	Danish (da) Brevdue		44.5003
7	Dutch (nl) Postduif		38.639
8	Hungarian (hu) Postagalamb		34.8069
9	Arabic (ar) حمام الزاجل		31.6974
10	Swedish (sv) Brevduva		30.6639

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Homing pigeon		5 018 890
2	Spanish (es) Paloma mensajera		994 521
3	German (de) Brieftaube		964 242
4	French (fr) Pigeon voyageur		954 806
5	Japanese (ja) 伝書鳩		897 502
6	Arabic (ar) حمام الزاجل		818 050
7	Polish (pl) Gołąb pocztowy		478 693
8	Russian (ru) Почтовый голубь		459 263
9	Portuguese (pt) Pombo-correio		293 115
10	Dutch (nl) Postduif		245 074

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Homing pigeon		19 897
2	German (de) Brieftaube		3 417
3	Japanese (ja) 伝書鳩		3 235
4	French (fr) Pigeon voyageur		2 913
5	Spanish (es) Paloma mensajera		2 559
6	Italian (it) Piccione viaggiatore		1 511
7	Polish (pl) Gołąb pocztowy		1 281
8	Russian (ru) Почтовый голубь		1 221
9	Portuguese (pt) Pombo-correio		1 162
10	Arabic (ar) حمام الزاجل		1 135

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Homing pigeon		504
2	German (de) Brieftaube		250
3	French (fr) Pigeon voyageur		154
4	Dutch (nl) Postduif		90
5	Japanese (ja) 伝書鳩		78
6	Hebrew (he) יונת דואר		75
7	Arabic (ar) حمام الزاجل		59
8	Spanish (es) Paloma mensajera		53
9	Italian (it) Piccione viaggiatore		45
10	Norwegian (no) Brevdue		42

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 伝書鳩		3
2	French (fr) Pigeon voyageur		2
3	German (de) Brieftaube		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Leterkolombo		1
5	Arabic (ar) حمام الزاجل		0
6	Catalan (ca) Colom missatger		0
7	Czech (cs) Poštovní holub		0
8	Danish (da) Brevdue		0
9	English (en) Homing pigeon		0
10	Spanish (es) Paloma mensajera		0

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

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