SRI LANKA GREEN PIGEON

March 2017

 1092             SRI LANKA GREEN PIGEON                 Treron (pompadora) pompadora

SRI LANKA                106

Found in forest and woods. 28 cm. Fairly common breeding resident from lowlands to lower hills; local and uncommon up to mid hills.

ORANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON

Subspecies leggei, photographed March 2017

(*  1064)                 ORANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON                      Treron bicinctus  

SRI LANKA                   40

Found in woods and scrub. 29 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands, local and fairly rare in wet lowlands.

YELLOW-FOOTED GREEN PIGEON

Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017

1024                  YELLOW-FOOTED GREEN PIGEON               Treron phoenicopterus

NEPAL               99

Found in deciduous forest and fruiting trees around villages and cultivation. 33 cm. Widespread and locally common resident.

PINK-CHEEKED PIGEON

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see      824)           PINK-CHEEKED PIGEON             Theron vernans

SINGAPORE         (2)

Also known as Pink-cheeked Green Pigeon. 25 cm. A coastal bird, found mainly in mangroves and coastal woodlands, has expanded successfully into disturbed forest, plantations, parks and gardens. Range: Southeast Asia: common resident of the Sunda subregion; extends into Sulawesi, Lombok, Sumbawa and some adjacent islands. 

WOMPOO FRUIT-DOVE

Photographed at Ravensbourne National Park, Queensland August 2015.

641             WOMPOO FRUIT-DOVE               Ptilinopus magnificus

Australia          (484)

Also known as Bubbly Jock or Mary, Green or King Pigeon, Magnificent Fruit-Dove, Wompoo Fruit Pigeon or Wompoo Pigeon. 35-50 cm. Found in rainforests, monsoon forests, adjacent eucalypt forest, fruiting trees on scrubby creeks or in open country. Range: coastal e. Aust. and forested coastal islands: from C. York (Q) to c. lower Hunter R. region (NSW), formerly s. to Illawarra; mostly on and e. of Divide. Fairly common in Q., scarcer in NSW.