Pin-tailed Green Pigeon

The pin-tailed green pigeon is a medium-sized pigeon, weighing 185–255 g, with males 32–36 cm and females about 28 cm long. The central tail feathers are bluish grey and the undertail coverts chestnut. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The earliest verifiable evidence for it is from John McClelland's Assam collection of 1836 (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is frugivorous, feeding mainly on fruit and berries in an acrobatic fashion, and gregarious, forming feeding flocks of 10–30 birds. The song is a soft whistling ku-koo, usually paired, and it also gives a high-pitched doo. Nesting has been observed in April, May and June in the Himalayan foothills, in a platform twig nest usually 5–6 m off the ground, with two white eggs; both parents incubate and feed the young. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird with a Moderate range and insufficient data on the long-term trend (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).