Orange-breasted Geen Pigeon       Treron bicinctus

Etymology: 

• Treron : Greek word for Pigeon
• Bicinctus : Ltin word bi– two-, double; cinctus – banded derived from cingere  –to encircle. 

Vernacular Names: Hindi: Kesari-chati Harial, Ass: Haitha, Ta: Pachchai pura, Te: Pasapu pachcha pavuramu, Mal: Manjavarayan, Sinh: Bata goya, Mar: Narangi Chatichi Haroli

Distribution : Resident in Himalayan foothills from Uttarakhand  eastwards to Assam, Western Ghats South of Goa, Eastern Ghats and most of Eastern peninsula South East from Madhya Pradesh. 

Description : It has a size of  27 cm. It is a medium-sized green-pigeon with heavy-based bill. It has a 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 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 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, eating 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.