Green Winged Dove
Chalcophapsindica
Photographed at
Disney Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL Mar 2011
The Green-winged Pigeon is a small brown pigeon with green wings.
The male has a white patch on shoulder.
A
pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia
This is a common species in rainforest and similar dense wet woodlands, farms,
gardens, mangroves and coastal heaths.
It
builds a scant stick nest in a tree up to five meters and lays two
cream-coloured eggs. Breeding tends to occur in Australia spring or early
summer in southeastern Australia and late in the dry season in northern
Australia.
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