Columba palumbus

Quality:

Common Wood Pigeon - species of bird. This taxon is the 960^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 784^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Columba palumbus” in Italian Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.62 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 784^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 960^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 8547^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6799^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8569^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Columba palumbus” was edited by 3 authors in Italian Wikipedia (6799^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Columba palumbus”, its content was written by 98 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Common Wood Pigeon is on the 784^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 960^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 119 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1979 in February 2006
• Global: #4420 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #8028 in May 2025
• Global: #6914 in April 2025

There are 46 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) Common wood pigeon		65.5127
2	Greek (el) Φάσσα		64.6501
3	German (de) Ringeltaube		63.3849
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ringdue		59.4744
5	Polish (pl) Grzywacz (ptak)		58.0945
6	Swedish (sv) Ringduva		56.2381
7	Slovak (sk) Holub hrivnák		52.6005
8	Dutch (nl) Houtduif		47.5502
9	Estonian (et) Kaelustuvi		47.3597
10	Hungarian (hu) Örvös galamb		47.0013

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common wood pigeon		1 720 931
2	French (fr) Pigeon ramier		1 486 033
3	German (de) Ringeltaube		1 460 403
4	Russian (ru) Вяхирь		906 863
5	Polish (pl) Grzywacz (ptak)		875 406
6	Finnish (fi) Sepelkyyhky		543 777
7	Italian (it) Columba palumbus		460 059
8	Spanish (es) Columba palumbus		439 177
9	Swedish (sv) Ringduva		373 130
10	Czech (cs) Holub hřivnáč		362 558

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Вяхирь		24 295
2	French (fr) Pigeon ramier		17 324
3	German (de) Ringeltaube		16 675
4	English (en) Common wood pigeon		16 314
5	Polish (pl) Grzywacz (ptak)		8 570
6	Italian (it) Columba palumbus		5 908
7	Finnish (fi) Sepelkyyhky		4 975
8	Czech (cs) Holub hřivnáč		4 368
9	Ukrainian (uk) Припутень		3 985
10	Spanish (es) Columba palumbus		3 746

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common wood pigeon		237
2	German (de) Ringeltaube		157
3	French (fr) Pigeon ramier		142
4	Dutch (nl) Houtduif		101
5	Italian (it) Columba palumbus		98
6	Russian (ru) Вяхирь		68
7	Finnish (fi) Sepelkyyhky		58
8	Norwegian (no) Ringdue		52
9	Polish (pl) Grzywacz (ptak)		51
10	Hungarian (hu) Örvös galamb		48

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	Italian (it) Columba palumbus		3
2	Finnish (fi) Sepelkyyhky		2
3	German (de) Ringeltaube		1
4	English (en) Common wood pigeon		1
5	Estonian (et) Kaelustuvi		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Grivar		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Припутень		1
8	Arabic (ar) ورشان		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Alabaxta		0
10	Belarusian (be) Вяхір		0

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

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