"wood-pigeon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1671, John Gregory, Gregorii Opuscula : or, Notes & Observations upon some Passages of Scripture, with other learned Tracts, page 236",
          "text": "If Sémiramis be a Wood-pigeon in Greece, it may, perchance have been an House-pigeon in the Countrey of Ajhur.",
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          "ref": "1955, “Scottish Agriculture”, in Fisheries, volumes 35-36, Scotland: Department of Agriculture, page 209",
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          "ref": "2001, Michael R. Conover, Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts, page 155",
          "text": "For a decade, up to 60% of the wood-pigeon population were removed each winter.",
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