Wildlife & Flora
Speckled Wood Pigeon
Speckled Wood Pigeon (Columba hodgsonii) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Ghandruk, Bhaisikharka, Tadapani.
- Scientific name
- Columba hodgsonii
- Local name
- Chirbire Banparewa
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
The Speckled Wood Pigeon is a pigeon that is seldom found away from oak- rhododendron forests and are neither widespread nor common. One of the few places where these guys are spotted regularly is the Kathmandu Valley and the lower slopes of the Annapurna Base Camp Trek. There is even one record of at least a 1000 of these birds in Dhampus on 21 Jan 1985.
