Jabarkhet

Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon

Treron sphenurus

 This fruit-eating pigeon is a hard one to see as it mostly remains high in the canopy searching for ripe fruits. But they are also cleverly camouflaged. The female is mostly green, but the male has grey-ish green wings, with a maroon patch on the shoulder and yellow on the head and breast. As the name implies, the tail is wedge-shaped.

The song is rather soft and low but is quite remarkable. It reminds me of a child playing with one of those wooden whistles with a slider in it, as it seems to wander at random up and down the scale:

 But it is not completely random. There is a pattern, starting with a long note running into a warble, then up and down and finishing with more long notes.  This second song is from a different bird:

 In the following sequence a male was carrying a small branch and displaying to a female and never quite broke into the full song::