Thick-billed green pigeon

The thick-billed green pigeon (Treron curvirostra) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

The thick-billed green pigeon was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

[2] Gmelin based his description on the "Hook-billed Pigeon" from the "island of Tanna in the South Seas" that had been described and illustrated in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham.

A thick pale greenish bill with red base, broad bluish-Green eye ring, grey crown and maroon mantle diagnostic.

Found across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam.

Thick-billed green pigeon male
Khao Yai NP, July 1994