The Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica, is found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Malay Archipelago, offshore islands of south-western Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, southern Cambodia and Vietnam, and many of the small islands between Sumatra, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands and Palau.
It is a large pigeon, measuring 40 cm 16 in in length. The head is grey, like the upper neck plumage, which turns into green and copper hackles. The tail is very short and pure white. The rest of its plumage is metallic green.
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