Sighting of Barred cuckoo dove Macropygia unchall in Kokrajhar Town, Bodoland Territorial Region, Assam, India

Barred cuckoo-dove is a species of bird which is native to South and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the family Columbidae and is listed under Least Concern category in the IUCN Red List. This species is sexually dimorphic. Males have unbarred head and neck with extensive purple and green gloss. Females are heavily barred on head, neck and underparts with gloss which are restricted to nape and side of neck. We recorded Barred cuckoo-dove Macropygia unchall in a commercial area of district head quarter town, Kokrajhar incidentally as part of a routine survey. Generally a forest bird species,a total ofnine individuals were seen perching on the tin roof of an old concrete house, covered under the moderately dense canopy of Eucalyptus tree Eucalyptus globules . As birds are regarded as the biological indicator which signifies the health of the ecosystem, it is important to preserve the existence of any species of wild birds that are present around us.

@article{eliza2026,
  author  = {Eliza Basumatary, Dipika Chetry, Debasmita Purkayastha and Hilloljyoti Singha*},
  title   = {{Sighting of Barred cuckoo dove Macropygia unchall in Kokrajhar Town, Bodoland Territorial Region, Assam, India}},
  journal = {Journal of Bioresearch},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {3},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {51-53},
  doi     = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11190377},
}