stockdove

• stock dove
• stock-dove

From stock +‎ dove, because once believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or perhaps from its breeding in the stocks (trunks) of trees.

stockdove (plural stockdoves)

1. A common European wild pigeon (Columba oenas).
2. Any of various related species, such as the yellow-eyed pigeon (Columba eversmanni) or wood pigeon.

• “stockdove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.