Orange-breasted Green Pigeon

The orange-breasted green pigeon looks like other green pigeons but has no maroon on the wing. The nape is blue-grey and the crown yellowish green. The male has no grey on the head and shows a narrow lilac band across the upper breast above a broader orange one, with cinnamon undertail coverts. The female is yellow below and lacks both bands. The tail is grey above with a broad dark band near the tip, and in females its central feathers are slaty grey rather than green (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a forest bird that occurs singly or in small groups, foraging quietly by walking slowly along branches and often joining other fruit-eaters at fruiting figs. It eats the seeds and fruits of many plants, including those of the strychnine tree, which are toxic to mammals, and sometimes comes to the ground. Its call is a low, subdued series of wandering, modulated whistles. SoIB 2023 describes it as a local migrant within India with a restricted range of about 37,000 km², and rates it a Moderate conservation priority; its trends are uncertain (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).