This is my lifer no 6 for the year 2016; the birds are trickling in rather slowly as you pass the 450 mark for a weekend birder like me. Met Danny boy a very long time birding acquintance and Melaka Ang when I was in Fraser's Hill last weekend 12 June 2016. The encounter was about more than an hour in the evening session at about 4pm. They are usually 2-3 of them. Pigeon are one of the species that pair for life.
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| After feeding the sleepy mood. It will start eating again after a few minutes of rest |
The wedge-tailed green pigeon or Kokla green pigeon (Treron sphenurus) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is greenish yellow with wedge shaped tail. with a rounded tip. The crown is tinged with orange-rufous with variable amount of maroon on back and scapulars in male but absent in female.
Malaysia Peninsula subspecies robinsoni; the male has no rufous apricot crown or breasted and is slightly smaller at 29cm slightly smaller than the rock pigeon (33cm) as a comparison.
It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It ranges across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In Malaysia it is easier to see in the hill forest like Fraser's Hill orCameron Highland.
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| This is the male. |
It has a nice blue tinged iris and beak compared to the Yellow-vented (which I yet to see) which the latter has an extended blue eyering & lore. The male have a maroon patch to its shoulder wing.
Next Targets are the Yellow-vented (Kledang) followed by Large Green (Bukit Larut) & the Cinnamon-headed (Panti/Singapore).
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