Green timor pigeon
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The green Timor pigeon or Timor green pigeon ( Treron psittaceus ) is an arboreal pigeon belonging to the genus of the green pigeon . It occurs only on Timor and the neighboring islands of Atauro , Semau and Roti . Their existence is considered endangered. While it is even more common in East Timor , it seems to have almost disappeared from its Indonesian habitat, the monsoon forests in the lowlands.
Appearance
The Green Timor Dove is about 28 cm tall. The male is gray-green; on the chest, rump and upper tail-coverts somewhat lighter and has gray-black wings with yellow-lined coverts. The tail is green in the middle, gray with a dark band towards the edges, the under tail-coverts are white with green spots. The female is grayer with a lighter yellow line between the wing coverts and the wing feathers.
See also
- Timor pigeon (also black Timor pigeon , Turacoena modesta )
- Timor pigeon ( Geopelia maugei )
swell
- BirdLife Species Factsheet (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Colin R. Trainor and Thomas Soares: Birds of Atauro Island, Timor-Leste (East Timor) , Forktail 20 (2004), pp. 41-48
Web links
- Avibase entry Timor green pigeon ( Treron psittaceus (Temminck, 1808))
- Treron psittaceus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2013.