Yellow-Footed Green Pigeon

The yellow-footed green pigeon is a beautiful bird I wanted more photos of, but had a hard time getting my camera to focus on it. I think it was reflecting the light and making focus difficult. There are five subspecies and they are highly variable. The nominate subspecies, which we saw, has a grayish blue back of the head with a yellowish forehead and chin and yellow on the tip of the bill. The nape, neck and breast are a golden yellow, with more grayish blue on the underparts and back, then a yellowish green on the back and wings, with some violet on the feathers, yellow feet, a yellow band on the tail and darker grayish blue tail. Other subspecies vary with more or less yellow on the head and the shade of yellow on the nape, neck and breast.  

This was the first one I photographed, in the Eastern Range of Kaziranga NP, and it was sitting in the open. I took dozens of photos and was the best I could get. Very frustrating. 

This is a much better photo, also from the Eastern Range. 

The next photos were very near where we stayed at Diphlu Lodge. They were also much better. 

The nominate subspecies, Treron phoenicopterus phoenicopterus, is found in northern India east through the Himalayan foothills and Gangetic Plain from Himachal Pradesh to Assam and Bangladesh, and southwest to central Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Considering other subspecies, it is found in most of India, eastern Pakistan, portions of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, Myanmar and further into southeast Asia. 

Range from Birds of the World.