📸 PhotoPhoto: Jin Kemoole · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
White-bellied Green Pigeon
Treron sieboldii (White-bellied Green Pigeon · アオバト)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its body length of 33 cm is about 3 cm longer than the long side of an A4 sheet of paper (29.7 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 Because it lives on fruits and seeds in dense broadleaf and mixed forests, fruit-rich woodlands are its home.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The White-bellied Green Pigeon is a dark-green pigeon endemic to southern parts of East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and the Indochinese Peninsula.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its back, tail, and wings are dark green, its breast is yellowish-green, and its belly and flanks are white. Males have dark purplish lesser wing coverts on the shoulder whereas females have dark green, and both sexes have a black band across the tail feathers.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds on fruits and seeds and lays a clutch of 2 eggs around June. It lives alone or in small flocks of a few individuals.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
It is a species listed in the National List of Species of Korea.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2024) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22691283/263985366
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 263985366
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000001830 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000001830
- • wikidata.org — Q997448
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:2018-01-22 Treron sieboldii, Osaka, Japan 1.jpg
- • species.nibr.go.kr — mainHome.do
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — RS · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Columbidae)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.