Description
A rather secretive and often difficult to see endemic of Primary rain forrest and damp submontane forrest. Image taken at Hunas Falls, near Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Date 5 August 2009, 04:38
Source Sri Lanka Wood Pigeon (Columba torringtoni) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainbirder/4703660309/
Author Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland http://www.flickr.com/photos/50079771@N08
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Sri_Lanka_Wood_Pigeon_(Columba_torringtoni).jpg

The Sri Lanka wood pigeon (Columba torringtoniae) is a pigeon which is an endemic resident breeding bird in the mountains of Sri Lanka. This species nests in damp evergreen woodlands in the central highlands, building a stick nest in a tree and laying a single white egg. Its flight is quick, with the regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings which are characteristic of pigeons in general. Most of its food is vegetable. Normally silent it utters an owl-like hoo call in the breeding season.