Pin-tailed Green Pigeon - BirdForum Opus

Photo by robby thai
Mae Wong National Park, Thailand, December 2014

Alternative name: Pin-tailed Pigeon

Treron apicauda

Identification

Male 32 cm (12½ in); female 28 cm (11 in)

• Yellowish-green overall plumage
• Darker on wing-coverts and scapulars
• Lighter underparts
• Yellow breast

Distribution

Asia: found in China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bangladesh, Bhutan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• T. a. apicauda:

• Foothills of north-eastern India to south-western China and southern Myanmar (Tenasserim)

• T. a. lowei:

• Mountains of Thailand, central Laos and central Vietnam

• T. a. laotinus:

• Mountains of Laos and northern Vietnam

Habitat

There are generally seen in forests and second growth in hill country up to about 1800 m.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists almost entirely of fruit and berries.

Breeding

Their nest is a twiggy platform.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pin-tailed Green Pigeon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pin-tailed_Green_Pigeon

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