Green-winged Pigeon or Emerald Dove

Description:

The Green-winged Pigeon is a small brown pigeon with green wings. The male has a white patch on shoulder.

Habitat:

This is a common species in rainforest and similar dense wet woodlands, farms, gardens, mangroves and coastal heaths. It builds a scant stick nest in a tree up to five metres and lays two cream-coloured eggs. Breeding tends to occur in Australia spring or early summer in southeastern Australia and late in the dry season in northern Australia.