Bruce's Green Pigeon

Waalietaube in the region Kédougou, Senegal

The Waalietaube ( Treron waalia ) (also parrot pigeon, parrot, pigeon, Waalie, Waalie Dove Waaliataube and Waalia Pigeon called ) is a species of bird in the genus of green pigeons ( Treron ).

Description

The body length of Waalietaube is 31 to 32 centimeters. It is thus as large as the Rotschulter Green Pigeon ( Treron phoenicoptera ), but occurs only in Asia. The plumage is pale olive green on the top, on the bottom of the bird bright yellow. Head, neck and chest are decorated in a light gray green. The shoulders are wine red, the feet yellow. The pupil of the eye is surrounded by a bright blue ring, the iris is red.

Female Waalietauben have the same coloration as male, if a little pale. They are a bit smaller.

Subspecies

• T. w. jubaensis. Benson 1942 Named after the Somali river Juba. Occurrence: Somalia.

Habitat

The distribution area of Waalietauben extends from the Arabian Peninsula (for example the southern west coast of Saudi Arabia and Yemen and western Oman) on East Africa (eg Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and southern Somalia with the island of Socotra ) to West Africa (for example, Togo, Ghana and Senegal). The population in Kuwait is extinct, the entire herd is, however, although the total number decreases slightly according to a publication of the Spanish Josep del Hoyo birdwatchers Jewellers in 1997, not as endangered. From sea level to below 2000 meters above sea level you will find Waalietauben on large, leafy trees near water bodies.

Nutrition

Waalietauben feed on berries, mainly figs. While other fruit pigeons not necessarily prefer a single crop in the wild, choose Waalietauben almost exclusively the fruits of up to about 18 meters high fig tree Ficus platyphylla.

Reproduction

Nests are built high on trees, far away from the trunk on high branches. A nest consists of a maximum of two eggs, which are not always fertilized and incubated in the period January to May.

Waalietauben and man

For the first time in a zoo you could see Waalietauben 1898 London Zoo. The first breeding success in 1975 there were in the Walsrode Bird Park. Breeding success intensity and the spring colors seem to depend on the composition of the diet. As of March 28, 2011 to specimens found in various zoos and bird parks: In Europe, for example in the Walsrode Bird Park in Attica Zoo in Greek Spata (20 kilometers east of Athens), in Blackbrook Zoo in Winkhill, Staffordshire, at Seaview Wildlife Encounter on the Isle of Wight, in the Five Sisters Zoo in Polbeth, West Lothian, Scotland, and in the Moscow zoo. Outside Europe Waalietauben be kept, for example, in the Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife in Sharjah in the Bird Park Montecasino in Johannesburg and in various zoos in the United States as the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, the Houston Zoo in Houston and the San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquariums in San Antonio.

Waalietauben can be found on stamps from the Yemen Arab Republic ( 1965), The Gambia (1966 ), Ivory Coast (1966 ), Somalia (1968), Fujairah (1969 ), the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1988) and Niger ( 2013).