Wedge‑tailed Green Pigeon Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Treron sphenurus
Family : Columbidae
Order : Columbiformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Other Name : Wedge-tailed Pigeon
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon is a yellowish-green pigeon with a wedge-shaped tail (adult bird length approximately 33 cm, weight 213 g, wing 17.5 cm, bill 1.8 cm, tarsus 1.8 cm, tail 12.5 cm). The male has a rufous-orange crown, dark olive-green back. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Ducula badia
(Mountain Imperial Pigeon) -
Treron apicauda
(Pin‑tailed Green Pigeon) -
Columba punicea
(Pale‑capped Pigeon) -
Spilopelia senegalensis
(Laughing Dove) -
Spilopelia chinensis
(Eastern Spotted Dove) -
Treron curvirostra
(Thick‑billed Green Pigeon) -
Macropygia unchall
(Barred Cuckoo-Dove) -
Spilopelia suratensis
(Western Spotted Dove)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Fatema-Tuz-Zohora,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Ron Knight(www.inaturalist.org/people/Ron Knight),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Marc Andersonmore information, please contact us.
description written by:Fatema-Tuz-Zohora,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Ron Knight(www.inaturalist.org/people/Ron Knight),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Marc Andersonmore information, please contact us.