Emerald Dove

Hello friends, wishing everyone a very happy Holi, may this festival of colors brings a lot of brightness to your life

So what do I offer today? The answer is simple something colorful, but finding out a particular bird or animal is not that simple, so to find out I always go back to memory lane which always gives me direction

Keeping Holi in mind I wanted to post something with bright colors and suddenly notice this lovy dovy bird which is perfect in terms of bright colors hence presenting you Emerald Dove   

Mera Lucky kabutar 

We all are familiar with Kabutar i. e. pigeon the most commonly found bird and disliked bird because of the irritating sound and for not being a clean creature but famous for being a Dakiya (messenger, I hope you remember the song “Kabutar Jaa Jaa Jaa…)

However, you know pigeon well but I am sure you are not aware of its close cousin Emerald Dove hence I started with highlighting the difference

Pigeons and doves belong to the same family of birds (Columbidae), which consists of more than 300 species of birds. They share similar features like thick and round bodies, short necks, and thin peaks, but doves are generally of a smaller stature while pigeons are often larger and stubbier

There is no difference between a pigeon and a dove in scientific nomenclature, but colloquial English tends to categorize them by size. Something called a dove is generally smaller than something called a pigeon, but that is not always the case. A common pigeon, for example, is called both a rock dove and a rock pigeon

With these basic details, let us go a bit in detail to know more about this colorful pigeon in the next section

The Characteristic

The common emerald dove is the state bird of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

This bird is known with many names such as Asian emerald dove or grey-capped emerald dove, or green dove or green-winged pigeon

The name emerald comes from bright emerald green wings, apart from green it has many other colors such as the blackish tail, black and white bars, the head and underparts are dark vinous pink, fading to greyish on the lower belly. The eyes are dark brown, the bill bright red, and legs and feet rufous

This is a common species in tropical forests and similar dense wet woodlands, farms, and mangroves. It builds a scant stick nest in a tree up to five meters and lays two cream-colored eggs

They eat seeds and fruits of a wide variety of plants and are generally tame and approachable

Like other bird species, a female green-winged pigeon is called a hen, and the male green-winged pigeon is called a cock

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