Prefectural Natural Monument
Birds
White-bellied Green Pigeon
Treron sieboldii
Photo: Jin Kemoole / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
A green-plumaged pigeon that lives in mountain forests but flocks to the shore at Terugasaki in Oiso, Kanagawa, to drink seawater. The gathering site is a Natural Monument, protected as a place to observe this unusual behavior.
- Scientific name
- Treron sieboldii
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Kanagawa
- 日本語
- アオバト
- 简体中文
- 红翅绿鸠
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The White-bellied Green Pigeon is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Kanagawa.
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