Thick-billed green pigeon

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Thick-billed green pigeon

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Treron
Species:
T. curvirostra
Binomial name
Treron curvirostra
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)

The thick-billed green pigeon (Treron curvirostra) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

Taxonomy

The thick-billed green pigeon was

Treron that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.[7][8] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek trērōn meaning "pigeon" or "dove". The specific epithet curvirostra combines the Latin curvus meaning "curved" with -rostris meaning "billed".[9]

Nine subspecies are recognized:[8]

Description

Rather small-sized pigeon being under 26 cm (10 in) as compared to other green pigeons. A thick pale greenish bill with red base, broad bluish-Green eye ring, grey crown and maroon mantle diagnostic. Wings have black primary and secondaries with yellow outer edge. Underside green in both sexes. Thighs dark green with whitish scales. Female has greenish undertail coverts with whitish scales. Males have maroon dorsum and dull chestnut undertail coverts.[10][11]

Distribution and habitat

It ranges across the eastern regions of the

Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, stretching from the Eastern Himalayas to Borneo and Sumatra
.

Found across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.[10][11]

Behaviour and ecology

Known to feed on

Figs walking slowly along the branches.[11]

Thick-billed green pigeon male

Various views and plumages

Khao Yai NP, July 1994

References

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  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22691160A130177198.en
    . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 777.
  3. ^ Latham, John (1783). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 2, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 632; Plate 59.
  4. ^ Oberholser, Harry C. (1912). "Descriptions of one hundred and four new species and subspecies of birds from the Barussan Islands and Sumatra". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 60 (7): 1-22 [3, Note].
  5. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 14.
  6. ISBN 978-1-873403-60-0
    .
  7. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 49.
  8. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Pigeons"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  9. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  10. ^ a b Robson, Craig, and Richard Allen. New Holland field guide to the birds of South-East Asia. New Holland Publishers, 2005
  11. ^ a b c "Pictures and description of the Pigon birds". Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.


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