Japanese Wood Pigeon, HDTV by JH1RNZ

Japanese Wood Pigeon on a pine tree in the deep forest of the Miyako island, Okinawa, Japan. This HDTV was captured on May 2, 2009. The neck has a metallic luster from deep green to purple is extremely beautiful. The body is 45cm in size. Because it warbles to each other like a cow in a forest, the local islander calls it "Cow Dove" When the caution sound comes out, it is an unbelievable noisy strong sound "Google gu-gu" This pigeon has a deeply embedded wariness about human. Accoring to the report of Matthew Calbraith Perry; the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Uraga, Kanagawa in 1854, there were lots of Wood Pigeons at the small island in Tokyo Bay; Sarushima of Yokosuka. However, 150 years later, we almost lose this bird on the ground, endangered species.