Biology:Wedge-tailed green pigeon

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Short description: Species of bird

Wedge-tailed green pigeon
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Male at Dhanaulti, India
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Female in Myanmar
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Treron
Species:
T. sphenurus
Binomial name
Treron sphenurus
(Vigors, 1832)
Synonyms

Treron sphenura (Vigors, 1832)

The wedge-tailed green pigeon or Kokla green pigeon (Treron sphenurus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

Description

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It is greenish yellow with wedge shaped tail. The crown is tinged with orange-rufous with variable amount of maroon on back and scapulars in male but absent in female.

It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It ranges across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India , Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q507590 entry