EMERALD DOVE

 

Photographed at Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, May 2024.

(643*).                EMERALD DOVE                   Chalcophaps indica

VIETNAM                  26

The common emerald dove, also called Asian emerald dove and grey-capped emerald dove, is a widespread resident breeding pigeon native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The dove is also known by the names of green dove and green-winged pigeon.

EMERALD DOVE

Subspecies robinsoni, photographed March 2017

(*   643)            EMERALD DOVE            Chalcophaps indica

SRI LANKA              70

Found in forests and well wooded areas. 27 cm. Uncommon breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka, up to highest hills.

EMERALD DOVE

Photographed at Beeshazar Wetlands, Nepal, March 2017

(*  643)              EMERALD DOVE                   Chalcophaps indica

NEPAL                116

Found in moist broadleaved forests. 27 cm. Locally common resident.

COMMON EMERALD DOVE

Photographed on Christmas Island

957                  COMMON EMERALD DOVE                    Chalcophaps indica    

AUSTRALIA (Christmas Island)               687

Also called Asian Emerald Dove, Grey-capped Emerald Dove, Green Dove and Green-winged Pigeon. Found in rainforest and similar dense woodlands, farms, gardens, mangroves and coastal heaths. 23- 28 cm. Widespread resident in tropical and subtropical parts of Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Sakishma Islands (Japan), and Indonesia.

EMERALD DOVE

Emerald Dove, race chrysochlora, photographed at Redwood Park, Queensland August 2015.

643           EMERALD DOVE          Chalcophaps indica  

Australia        (486)

Also called Emerald Pigeon, Green Dove and Green-winged Pigeon. 23-28 cm. Found on the edges/clearings in rainforests; tropical, sub-tropical scrubs; wet eucalypt forest; lantana, coastal heaths, scrubs, mangroves, fruiting trees, farms, gardens; drier habitats in winter. Range: coastal n. and e. Aust. and islands: race longirostris from c. Walcott Inlet, Kimberley (WA) through Top End (NT); race chrysochlora from C. York Pen. (Q), s through coastal e. Aust. to c. Shoalhaven R. (NSW), casual s. Vic. and sw. WA; also Lord Howe and Norfolk Is. Common, nomadic. Also New Cal., PNG to se Asia.

Next 3 photographs taken Norfolk Island January 2016