GREEN IMPERIAL PIGEON

Subspecies pusilla, photographed March 2017

 (*   871)                GREEN IMPERIAL PIGEON                    Ducula aenea

SRI LANKA           21

 Found in forests and well wooded gardens. 43-47 cm. Fairly common resident from lowlands up to lower hills.

GREEN IMPERIAL PIGEON

Photographed on Nusa Penida, Indonesia October 2016

 (871)              GREEN IMPERIAL PIGEON                   Ducula aenea

INDONESIA (Nusa Penida)          (94)      

Forest bird found in lowland and upper montane rainforest and along forest edges; also occurs locally in mangroves and savanna woodlands. 45 cm. Distribution: Oriental region; widespread and fairly common resident in the Sunda subregion, including the larger islands, extending to Sulawesi, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Sumba.