MEULEN GM VAN DER & BRAAKSMA S (1975) Short announcements: Unusual breeding of Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus. LIMOSA 48 (1): 117-117.

Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus On the 31st of May 1974 a Wood Pigeon flew from a nest with two eggs on the Saltmarches of the Dollard in the province of Groningen. This nest was situated on the ground in a complete tree-less surrounding. It consisted of only a few twigs between a vegetation of Spartina townsendii, Aster trifolium and Puccint?llia martima. The botanist Dr. L. E. M. Fresco recently told us that in 1973 he found two eggs of a pigeon probably also Columba palumbus L. - on the treeless shorelands of the island of Schiermonnikoog.

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