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Alternative name: Yellow-legged Green Pigeon

Photo by ariban
Patuli, Kolkata, India, May 2010

Treron phoenicopterus

[edit] Identification

33cm.

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in China, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

[edit] Taxonomy

subspecies annamensis
Photo by James Eaton
Tmat Boey, Cambodia, March 2006

Five subspecies are recognized:^[1]

• T. p. phillipsi:

• Sri Lanka

• T. p. chlorigaster

• Peninsular India south of the Gangetic Plain

• T. p. phoenicopterus:

• Eastern Pakistan and northern India to Assam and Bangladesh

• T. p. viridifrons:

• Extreme southwest China (Yunnan) to Myanmar and northwest Thailand

• T. p. annamensis:

• East Thailand to south Laos and south Vietnam

[edit] Habitat

Dry decideous forests amongst fruiting trees, gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes fruit, especially figs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase

• List of references

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