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  • Pemba Island, which is one of BirdLife International's Endemic Bird Areas, has four endemic species: the Pemba white-eye (Zosterops vaughani), Pemba green-pigeon (Treron pembaensis), Pemba sunbird (Nectarinia pembae), and Pemba scops-owl (Otus pembaensis).

    Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa 2008

  • Kokla ... .... kokla green-pigeon, koklas pheasant

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • The green-pigeon of the mountains is the kokla (_Sphenocercus sphenurus_), so called on account of its melodious call, _kok-la_,

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • For the eternal _coo-coo-coo-coo_ of the little brown dove, the melodious _kokla-kokla_ of the hill green-pigeon is substituted.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • In appearance it is very like the green-pigeon of the plains and is equally difficult to distinguish from its leafy surroundings.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Five of these species are considered vulnerable: black cuckoo-dove (Turacoena modesta), Wetar ground-dove (Gallicolumba hoedtii), Timor green-pigeon (Treron psittacea), Timor imperial-pigeon (Ducula cineracea), and iris lorikeet (Psitteuteles iris).

    Timor and Wetar deciduous forests 2008

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