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title: "Gołąb skalny"
description: "Columba livia — Ptaki. The rock dove (Columba livia), also known as the common pigeon or rock pigeon (but see also Petrophassa), is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/rock-pigeon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gołąb skalny

> Columba livia — Ptaki. The rock dove (Columba livia), also known as the common pigeon or rock pigeon (but see also Petrophassa), is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).

- Scientific name: *Columba livia*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `urban` (Miasta i ogrody), `zoo` (Zoo i zwierzęta domowe)
- iNaturalist observations: 458403
- Wikidata: [Q42326](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42326)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3017](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3017)

## Names

- en: Rock Pigeon
- de: Felsentaube
- es: Paloma Doméstica
- fr: Pigeon biset
- nl: Rotsduif
- pt: Pombo-comum
- pl: Gołąb skalny

## Countries with the most observations

US (123661), RU (46723), CA (24774), MX (23511), GB (17983), ES (12697), AU (12610), IT (10427), FR (10194), IN (9739), DE (9724), JP (6458)

## Summary

The rock dove (Columba livia), also known as the common pigeon or rock pigeon (but see also Petrophassa), is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon", although the rock dove is the wild form of the bird; the pigeons familiar to most people are the domesticated forms of the wild rock dove.
Wild rock doves are uniformly pale grey with two black bars on each wing, with few differences being seen between males and females; i.e. they are not strongly sexually dimorphic. The domestic pigeon, often called "Columba livia domestica", which includes…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove

## Photo

![Gołąb skalny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rock-pigeon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Diego Carús · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17804031

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rock-pigeon?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).