(1) In the Netherlands, the disease was also detected in woodpigeons and occasionally in psittacine birds.
(2) This rod was not found to be pathogenic for the domesticated pigeon (Columba livia), not even when intestinal mucosa containing large numbers of bacteria and obtained from a diseases woodpigeon which had died recently, was inoculated orally in recently hatched specimens of the domesticated pigeon.
(3) During and shortly after the second world war, an infection bearing a resemblance to avian tuberculosis was observed in woodpigeons in Denmark and Great Britain.
(4) To account for the appearance of tuberculosis in native woodpigeons, it is suggested that low plasma transferrin levels could result in marked susceptibility to infections such as tuberculosis and trichomoniasis.
(5) I struggle to justify eating meat but us carnivores should probably consider replacing other dishes with the ubiquitous woodpigeon.
(6) He was selling some byproducts of Britain’s lucrative shooting industry (byproducts because the main product is “fun”): woodpigeon and 14 woodcock , their rapier-like beaks tucked inside their carcasses.