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The pink-necked green pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon, measuring 25 to 30 cm (9.8–11.8 in) in length and weighing around 105–160 g (3.7–5.6 oz). The species has sexually dimorphic plumage. The male has a grey head, pinkish neck and upper breast, and the rest of the breast is orange. The back is olive green and the wings are green with black primaries and yellow edging on the tertiaries which create a yellow bar across the wing in flight. The belly is yellowish with grey flanks, and the tail is grey with a black band at the end, and a chestnut uppertail coverts.
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When to see the Pink-necked Green Pigeon
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pink-necked Green Pigeon
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Pink-necked Green Pigeon
The pink-necked green pigeon is a species of bird of the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae. It is a common species of Southeast Asia, found from Thailand, and Vietnam south through to the major islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a medium-sized pigeon with predominantly green plumage; only the male has the pink neck that gives the species its name. The species lives in a wide range of forested and human-modified habitats and is particularly found in open habitats. Its diet is dominated by fruit, in particular figs. Pairs lay two eggs in a flimsy twig nest in a tree, shrub, or hedge, and work together to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.
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Easily confused with
African Green PigeonTreron calvusThe African green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae, and one of 5 green pigeon species in the Afrotropics.
Grey-fronted Green PigeonTreron affinisThe male has a reddish mantle.
White-bellied Green PigeonTreron sieboldiiThe white-bellied green pigeon is a medium-sized, compactly built pigeon 33–36 centimetres (13–14 in) long.
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