Yellow-footed Green Pigeon

The yellow-footed green pigeon is a sturdy fruit pigeon about 33 cm long. Adults have a bluish-grey crown and nape, yellow-green forehead and throat, a broad olive-yellow collar and pale grey-green upperparts. Dark wings are narrowly edged yellow, and males show a stronger mauve shoulder patch than females. Bright yellow to orange-yellow legs, a grey-tipped tail and cinnamon or purplish undertail provide useful identification marks (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is widespread across the Indian subcontinent and extends east into parts of mainland Southeast Asia. Birds use open woodland, forest edge, scrub, farmland, gardens and urban parks with mature fruiting trees. They gather in pairs or flocks in the canopy to eat berries, figs and other fruit, often swallowing them whole before dispersing the seeds. A flimsy twig platform in a tree holds two white eggs tended by both parents (Wikipedia, general species account).