Blue Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) is a common slaty gray bird with glistening metallic green, purple and magenta sheen on neck and the upper breast. The bird has two dark bars on its wings and a band across the end of tail.
It feeds on cereals, pulses, and groundnuts. The nesting season is undefined. The nest is a flimsy collection of a few sticks on a ledge or in a fissure or cliff or on rafters and ceilings of houses. The bird is found in flocks and colonies moving about cliffs and human inhabitations.
The bird is locally called Gola Kabootar or Kabutar. Blue Rock Pigeon can be seen in the
Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Jammu and Kashmir.
