Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Treron
Species: T. sphenurus
Binomial name
Treron sphenurus
(Vigors, 1832)

The Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon or Kokla Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.

It is greenish yellow with wedge shaped tail.The crown is tinged with orange-rofous with variable amount of maroon on back and scapulars in male but absent in female. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]

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