a small and faint southern constellation (the Dove), near Canis Major. It is sometimes said to represent the dove that Noah sent out from the Ark
(circa 521–97), Irish abbot and missionary. He established the monastery at Iona in circa 563 and converted the Picts to Christianity. Feast day, 9 June
a large Eurasian and African pigeon with mainly grey plumage, using wing claps in display flight
a mainly grey Old World pigeon that frequents coastal and inland cliffs. It is the ancestor of domestic and feral pigeons
a grey Eurasian and North African pigeon, resembling a small wood pigeon, and nesting in holes in trees