The word "pigeon" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context where you are referring to a type of bird - a "pigeon". For example: "The pigeons cooed softly in the park."
Miranda was serving as a human passenger pigeon, shuttling encrypted files on USB drives between filmmaker Laura Poitras and Greenwald because, as the whole world now knows, the Internet is fully bugged by the US and UK governments.
When Galahad, out of a job, racked by hunger and winter cold, decides to catch a pigeon from Kensington Gardens and eat it, he is chased away by an old woman who threatens to get the police.
With the pigeon incident we are shown two opposed world-views: one that sees pigeons as food, and another that would rather see a man starve than let him use pigeons as food.
This protected swath of steppe and low mountain ranges is starkly beautiful, with the coirón grasses and spiny bushes providing a habitat for rhea, tinamou, pigeon and burrowing owl.
In my day, we drew filthy pictures of ourselves on rosewater-soaked vellum and taped them to a carrier pigeon.
Can I put meaning in colleagues' pigeon holes?
"It's like clay-pigeon shooting while trampolining" says Keivers of the camera skills required.
I was trying my hand at clay-pigeon shooting at the Reservoir Range activity centre in the south-east of the island; the centre is one of the very few places in the Caribbean to offer the sport.
Alex is right: essay-submission facilities are becoming increasingly web-based, and lecturers and tutors now communicate with us through email rather than scraps of paper shoved in pigeon-holes.
"He didn't want to be pigeon-holed," notes Mr Parrott.
When asked to pigeon-hole "In Cold Blood", Capote called it a "non-fiction novel" and claimed to have invented the genre.
