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Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

Treron sphenurus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestPlatform nestMedium · 210 g
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 1
Photo: lonelyshrimp · CC0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 2
Photo: Ron Knight · CC BY 2.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 3
Photo: Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India · CC BY 2.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 4
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 5
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 6
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 7
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 8
Photo: lonelyshrimp · CC0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 9
Photo: Ron Knight · CC BY 2.0
Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), photo 10
Photo: Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India · CC BY 2.0

ID tip

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.

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When to see the Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Thailand Bhutan Nepal China Vietnam Indonesia Malaysia Myanmar (Burma) Cambodia Bangladesh Laos

Recorded as a rare visitor in Hong Kong SAR China.

About the Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

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

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Easily confused with

Orange-breasted Green Pigeon (Treron bicinctus) Orange-breasted Green PigeonTreron bicinctusSimilar in appearance to other green pigeons including the yellow-footed green pigeon and the grey-fronted green pigeon but has no maroon on the wing. Sri Lanka Green Pigeon (Treron pompadora) Sri Lanka Green PigeonTreron pompadoraThe Pompadour green pigeon, Sri Lanka green pigeon or Ceylon green pigeon is a pigeon in the genus Treron. Thick-billed Green Pigeon (Treron curvirostra) Thick-billed Green PigeonTreron curvirostraRather small-sized pigeon being under 26 cm (10 in) as compared to other green pigeons.

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