Yellow legged Green Pigeon sitting on tree

2011-07-21 3

"See a Green Pigeon at the office of Wilderness Films India Ltd., on a peepal (Ficus religiosa) tree in the heart of New Delhi city! The Yellow-footed Green Pigeon Treron phoenicoptera also known as Yellow-legged Green Pigeon or hariyal in Hindi, is a common species of Green Pigeon found in South Asia. The species feeds on fruits of a large variety of fruit trees including a number of species of Ficus. They forage in flocks. In the early morning they are often seen sunning on the tops of emergent trees in dense forest areas. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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