Common resident bird in shrubs and wooded
patches of dry lowlands. Local and rare in wet lowlands and lower hills. It
lives as small flocks and sometime congregates freely in large flocks of same
species or with other pigeons (Sri Lanka Green Pigeon, Emerald Dove, GreenImperial Pigeon etc.) in the places where food is plentiful such as when a Banyan tree is
fruiting. Although strictly an arboreal bird it descends to the bank of a
stream/river or a water-hole for drink water, mostly in the morning and in the
afternoon. It breeds from December to May and probably again from August to
September. The nest is a platform of small twigs place in a small tree beside
the jungle path.
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