10 Species of Wood And Imperial Pigeons in India

Imperial pigeons are known as Ducula, A popular genus of the pigeon family Columbidae.
Ducula species of are largest pigeons found in India and also in the world by size, heavy build and long tails. Here is the list of known Species of Wood And Imperial Pigeons Found in India.

Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Mountain imperial pigeon is a large species of bird from the pigeon and dove family of India.
The mountain imperial pigeon is the largest pigeon species found in India and one of the largest in the world.

Malabar Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula cuprea)

Malabar imperial calso known as Nilgiri imperial pigeon is endemic to the Western Ghats of India.
The Western Ghats of India is home to 3 large species of wood and imperial pigeons including mountain imperial pigeon and Nilgiri wood pigeon.

Nicobar Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula nicobarica)

Ducula nicobarica species of pigeon bird is endemic to the Nicobar Islands, A separate species based on plumage and vocal.
The large species of pigeon bird natural habitats are lowland forests, agricultural landscapes and fruiting trees.

Green Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula aenea)

Green imperial pigeon is one of the large forest pigeon in India, extends from Nepal to Indonesia. The subspecies found in India and Nepal is known as Indian green imperial pigeon.

Pied Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)

The pied imperial pigeon is a pied species of pigeon bird and found only in thik forest, woodland and mangrove. In India, Pied imperial pigeon was reported from the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve.

Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon (Columba elphinstonii)

Nilgiri wood pigeon is one of the largest species of pigeon found in India, mainly found along the Western Ghats and in the Nilgiri Hills. They are frugivorous and some time confusable with the mountain imperial pigeon.

Andaman Wood-Pigeon (Columba palumboides)

Andaman wood pigeon is endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. Very little information is available of this species of bird from the family Columbidae.

Speckled Wood Pigeon (Columba hodgsonii)

Speckled wood pigeon species is distributed across the Himalayas of India extending from Kashmir to Arunchal Pradesh.
This medium-sized Jungle pigeon inhabit tall evergreen and semi-evergreen hill forests of North East India.

Pale-capped Pigeon/ Purple Wood-Pigeon (Columba punicea)

Purple Wood-Pigeon only distributed in some parts of the Indian subcontinent and a species of large pigeon found in the world.
The pale-capped pigeon are frugivores too and foraging in small groups on tress or ground for seeds.

Common Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)

Common wood pigeon is a large species in the dove and pigeon family and closely related to rock dove species.
From the five subspecies of common wood pigeon, C. p. casiotis known to found in northwestern India and Nepal.