- columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
--1 is a kind of gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
--1 is a member of Columbiformes, order Columbiformes
--1 has particulars:dodo, Raphus cucullatus; solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria; pigeon; sandgrouse, sand grouse