Thick-billed Pigeon (Treron curvirostra)
Order: COLUMBIFORMES
Family: COLUMBIDAE Doves, Pigeons
Scientific name: Treron curvirostra
English name: Thick-billed Pigeon
Characteristic: Size 27 cm. A plump-looking leafy green pigeon with bill tip much swollen than those of other similar pigeons, also tinted red at base. A male is readily recognized by possessing maroon back and shoulders, and orange-brown under tail coverts; while a female is green throughout the boby.
Distribution: Nepal, China, Hainan, the Greater Sundas, the Philippines and SE Asia.
Habitat: Dry evergreen forest, dipterocarp forest and secondary growth.
Habit: Live gregariously in large flocks that move around searching for their favourite diet of wild fruits. Breeding time falls between January-March. Two eggs forming a normal clutch. Parent will incubate the eggs for 14 days.
Status: A frequent-seen resident. A huge number of more than 300 birds had ever observed congregating on fruiting fig trees in dry evergreen forest in September-October.
