| CROWNED | The Victoria ___ pigeon is the largest pigeon and is 84cm long |
| BIKE | The Chinese Flying Pigeon is the worlds' most popular one |
| PINTADO | The Cape pigeon is also known as the --- petrel (7) |
| GREEN | The African ___ pigeon only eats fruit and is often found in fig trees |
| HOMING | A pigeon that has been bred and trained for racing is called a ___ pigeon |
| EMERALD | What other name, besides the Christmas green-winged pigeon, is given to the Christmas .... dove of C |
| POINTED | Apart from size, the major difference between a pigeon and a dove is that most doves have ___ tails |
| ROCKDOVE | Common bird of the family Columbidae from which the domestic pigeon is descended; Columba livia (4,4) |
| DOVE | A type of pigeon is at the front door very early |
| STOOL | A sitter for shooters proves the pigeon is an informer (5) |
| URBAN | The speckled pigeon is common in ___ areas |
| SQUAB | Young pigeon is fat and clumsy (5) |
| COLINDEXTER | Writer's left second 7 in shelter for pigeon and rook (5,6) |
| WONGAWONGA | In Australia, a large pigeon and an evergreen vine |
| SPIESINDISGUISE | 2019 film whose secret agent protagonist becomes a pigeon, and a theme hint |
| FRANCOME | John, jockey born in 1952 whose winning rides include Sea Pigeon and Brown Chamberlain (8) |
| OTOE | Midwestern tribe with Bear, Beaver, Elk, Eagle, Buffalo, Pigeon and Owl clans |
| MIDI | A 90mm-diameter clay pigeon - and southern part of France (4) |
| EMPERORPENGUIN | Bird to make space for every pigeon and run off (7,7) |
| IVY | Climbing over old garden walls and tree trunks, an evergreen with berries eaten by blackbirds, thrushes and wood pigeons and leaves stylised as "hedera" printer's fleurons (3) |