Pemba Green Pigeon

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When to see the Pemba Green Pigeon

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pemba Green Pigeon

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Pemba Green Pigeon

The Pemba green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is a small and stocky pigeon, with an average length of 25 cm. The head, neck, breast, and underparts are greenish-grey, while the upperparts from the lower mantle to the rump are olive-green, brighter on the rump and uppertail-coverts and with a greyish wash elsewhere. There is a dark greyish-purple patch on the shoulder formed by the lesser wing-coverts. It is endemic to Pemba Island, off the northeastern coast of mainland Tanzania. It is most common in primary forest, but also occurs in secondary forest, gardens, and clove plantations.

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Easily confused with

Sumba Green PigeonTreron teysmanniiThe Sumba green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Flores Green PigeonTreron florisThe Flores green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Timor Green PigeonTreron psittaceusThe Timor green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.