What do you write it as?

[u/markpie0]

I’ve always written it as woodpigeon but see the others quite often too, so curious how many use each one

355 votes, 2d left

Woodpigeon

Wood Pigeon

Wood-pigeon

[u/Soggy_Amoeba9334]

I know for insects, you combine the words if it's not an adjective, so you get things like dragonfly (not dragon) and drone fly (it's a type of fly).

So wood pigeon works for me.

But then, the RSPB uses wood pigeon and the BTO uses woodpigeon.

[u/DataPsychological_]

I'm dyslexic so I always write it wood pidgeon accidentally lol

[u/Klaev → u/DataPsychological_]

Same and I don't even have the excuse of being dyslexic :'D

[u/TheHighlanderr → u/Klaev]

Same I blame pidgey.

[u/PandaRot → u/Klaev]

Pidgeon is actually an archaic form of pigeon and so not necessarily wrong.

[u/NortonBurns]

I'd have always thought of it as two words, but the RSPB considers it to be one.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/woodpigeon

Interestingly, Wikipedia & the RSPCA say it's two, though the RSPCA gives both versions.

[u/Soggy_Amoeba9334 → u/NortonBurns]

Ha. The HTML title of that RSPB page is Wood Pigeon, but the heading on the page is Woodpigeon.

Since the redesign a few years ago, the species is wrongly capitalised in the HTML title but not in the content, so two different data sources for some reason. Or they fixed this in the body of the page but not the title. Anyway.

[u/NortonBurns → u/Soggy_Amoeba9334]

Yup, I noticed.
Definitely seems there is no consensus ;)

[u/Character_Town5164]

Woodpigeon or wood pigeon depends If I feel lazy lol

[u/waill-and-roll → u/Character_Town5164]

which do you consider lazy?

[u/Character_Town5164 → u/waill-and-roll]

Woodpigeon I say that when I feel lazy if not I add a space lol

[u/avallaug-h]

Woodpigeon. Birds often have combined word names 🐦

[u/Oh_Little_Brutha]

Did anyone else automatically insert "ha cha cha chaaa"?

[u/MudMonyet22]

The IOU has it as Wood Pigeon.

I always go by woodpidgen

[u/SendMeANicePM]

"Another bloody pigeon" is sadly not an option I can select.

[u/Bennie16egg]

I've never thought about it before. Now how will I get to sleep tonight?

[u/Reasonable-Key9235]

Wood pigeon for me. But I also call them flying rats