Stephan's Emerald Dove

When to see the Stephan's Emerald Dove

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Stephan's Emerald Dove

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia.

About the Stephan's Emerald Dove

Stephan's emerald dove, also known as Stephan's dove, is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae. Formally described by the French zoologist Jacques Pucheran in 1853, the dove is named after Étienne Jacquinot, the father of the French naturalist Honoré Jacquinot. The emerald dove has a large range in Indonesia and Melanesia, stretching from Sulawesi and Taliabu east through most of lowland New Guinea and its satellite islands to the Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, and Solomon Islands.

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Easily confused with

Pacific Emerald DoveChalcophaps longirostrisThis is a common species in rainforest and similar dense wet woodlands, farms, gardens, mangroves, and coastal heaths. Common Emerald DoveChalcophaps indicaThe common emerald dove is a stocky, medium-sized pigeon, typically 23–27 cm (9.1–10.6 in) in length.