Bruce's green pigeon

Bruce's green pigeon
At Day Forest National Park, Djibouti
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Treron
Species:	T. waalia
Binomial name
Treron waalia (Meyer, 1793)

Bruce's Green Pigeon, feeding. Djibouti, 2013

B'sG.P., Djibouti, Foret du Day. 2013.

Bruce's green pigeon (Treron waalia), also known as the yellow-bellied fruit pigeon or the yellow-bellied green pigeon, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

Its range extends across the Sudan (region) towards the Red Sea and the Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna and Dhofar Mountains.

It is a frugivore bird species that specialises on eating the fruits of a single species of fig tree, Ficus platyphylla . ^[2] Unlike most birds, it does not have a uropygial gland. ^[3]

Description

Despite its name, Bruce's green pigeon is mostly grey with a light yellow breast and olive green upper wings.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. BirdLife International. (2024). "Treron waalia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T22691212A264001974. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22691212A264001974.en .
2. Kissling, WD; Rahbek, C; Böhning-Gaese, K (2007). "Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness". Proc. Biol. Sci. 274 (1611): 799–808. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0311. PMC   2093978 . PMID   17251107.
3. Chiale, María Cecilia; Carril, Julieta; Montalti, Diego; Barbeito, Claudio (2019-07-29). "The uropygial gland of the Eared Dove and its evolutionary history within the Columbiformes (Aves)". Journal of Ornithology. 160 (4): 1171–1181. doi:10.1007/s10336-019-01691-6. hdl: 11336/127740 . ISSN   2193-7192. S2CID   199372640.