Pemba Green Pigeon
Photo: Mikael Bauer · CC BY 4.0

Doves and Pigeons

Pemba Green Pigeon

Treron pembaensis

VUVulnerable Endemic to Tanzania
Family
Doves and Pigeons (Columbidae)
Order
Columbiformes

Overview

The Pemba green pigeon (Treron pembaensis) 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.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Pemba (off northeastern Tanzania).

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.