A wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) fattens up for winter by swallowing whole acorns, the fruit of Pedunculate or Common Oak (Quercus robur), The acorns

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A wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) fattens up for winter by swallowing whole acorns, the fruit of Pedunculate or Common Oak (Quercus robur), The acorns will be pass through the bird’s crop and ground up in its muscular gizzard. Bedgebury Forest, Hawkhurst, Kent. UK.

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Size: 4042px × 2749px
Location: Bedgebury Forest, Hawkhurst, Kent. UK.
Photo credit: © MichaelGrantBirds / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: acorn, acorns, agriculture, barndigital, bird, columba, common, crop, farm, feeding, food, fruit, gizzard, gray, grey, late, oak, palumbus, pedunculate, pest, pigeon, quercus, robur, seed, seeds, summer, wood