red-capped green pigeon

Japanese: red-capped green pigeon（英語表記）redcappedgreenpigeon

...To replenish their salt intake, they have the habit of going to the coast and drinking salt water from the rocks. A closely related species, the red-capped green pigeon, S. formosae , lives in the forests of the Nansei Islands south of Yakushima and Tanegashima, and there are many of them. This bird is also known as the shakuhachi pigeon because it makes a sound that sounds very similar to the shakuhachi flute: pō, pō, pō.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "red-capped green pigeon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…塩分の補給のために，海岸に出て磯で塩水を飲む習性がある。近縁種のズアカアオバトS.formosae(英名red‐capped green pigeon)は，屋久島，種子島以南の南西諸島の森林に生息し，個体数は多い。この鳥はポー，ポー，ペポーと尺八の音によく似た声を出すので，シャクハチバトという別名がある。…

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