Red Tuetle-Dove (Streptopelia tranquebarica)
Order: COLUMBIFORMES
Family: COLUMBIDAE Doves, Pigeons
Scientific name: Streptopelia tranquebarica
English name: Red Tuetle-Dove
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 cbserved congregating on fruiting fig trees in dry evergreen forest in September -October.
