Yellow-footed Green Pigeon

The yellow-footed green pigeon is about 33 cm long, and its most striking feature is bright yellow or yellow-orange legs and feet. Adults have a bluish-grey crown and nape, a yellowish-green forehead and throat, a broad yellow collar, pale greyish-green upperparts and a mauve or purple shoulder patch. The wings are dark with yellow edges. The male is somewhat brighter than the female (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a common green pigeon of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, and the state bird of Maharashtra. Northern birds tend to have greyer underparts, southern birds more yellow-green. Nationally Critically Endangered (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).