Ashy-headed Green Pigeon    Treron phayrei

Etymology: 

• Treron : Greek word for Pigeon
• Phayrei : Named after british officer -Gen. Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (1812–1885) 

Distribution : Resident of Himalayas & North eastern Hills in India 

Description : It has a size of  27 cm. It is medium-sized green-pigeon with heavy-based bill. It has long wings with prominent yellow edging on flight-feathers and yellow bar across coverts. Both sexes have white forehead with grey crown, and bright yellow-green rump.

The male has chestnut-coloured mantle patch extending to upper tertials and shoulders, broad orange breastband on otherwise yellow-tinged underparts, orange-buff thighs and dark chestnut undertail-coverts.

The female is smaller and has dull grey-green mantle, whitish-green underparts with pale yellowish thighs, and white undertail-coverts & green central streaks that are largely concealed.

Habitat: It is found in lowland, hill and moist deciduous forest up to 1500 m in Himalayas.

Food habits:  It is frugivorous, eats wide variety of fruits. It forages in trees, but comes to ground to drink or take salt.

Breeding habits: They breed in Mar–Jul. The nest is a flimsy platform, placed low in tree or thicket, and often unconcealed.