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Wedge-tailed green pigeon

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

Wedge-tailed green pigeon
Male at Dhanaulti, India
Female in Myanmar
Scientific classification
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)

Description edit

 

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 edit

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Treron sphenurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22691274A93307787. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691274A93307787.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Dodsworth, Pelham T. L. (1912). "Notes on some habits of the Kokla or wedge-tailed green pigeon Sphenocercus sphenurus, in confinement". Avicultural Magazine. 3 (5): 129–135.


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