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Pacific emerald dove

Chalcophaps longirostris Gould, 1848

LCLeast Concernbirds

The Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris) is a species in the family Columbidae, order Columbiformes. Recorded adults weigh 136 g to 137 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris)
Photo: Mdekool · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the Pacific emerald dove

Weight
136.5 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
15 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Generalistsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the Pacific emerald dove live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The Pacific emerald dove is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the Pacific emerald dove?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The Pacific emerald dove or brown-capped emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Indonesia, northern and eastern Australia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea. It was formerly conspecific with the common emerald dove.

From the Wikipedia article “Pacific emerald dove” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific_emerald_dove&oldid=1379734364), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the Pacific emerald dove endangered?

The Pacific emerald dove is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the Pacific emerald dove classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderColumbiformes
  5. familyColumbidae
  6. genusChalcophaps
  7. SpeciesChalcophaps longirostris Gould, 1848

Synonyms Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Chalcophaps longirostris chrysochlora, Columba chrysochlora

Other names and names in other languages (34)
  • Brown-capped emerald doveEnglish
  • يمام زمردي المحيط الهادئArabic
  • tórtora maragda capbrunaCatalan
  • holub hnědohlavýCzech
  • Stillehavs-grønvingedueDanish
  • Nordaustralsk GrønvingedueDanish
  • GrünflügeltaubeGerman
  • Braunkappen-GlanztaubeGerman
  • BraunkappenglanztaubeGerman
  • brunkapa smeraldkolomboEsperanto
  • Palomita esmeralda cabecipardaSpanish
  • Colombine du PacifiqueFrench
  • Tourtelette du PacifiqueFrench
  • riđokrili golubCroatian
  • Tortora smeraldina del PacificoItalian
  • タイヘイヨウキンバトJapanese
  • オーストラリアキンバトJapanese
  • Pacifische SmaragdduifDutch
  • jadedueNorwegian
  • miedzianka brązowogłowaPolish
  • rola-do-pacíficoPortuguese
  • rola-esmeralda-de-cabeça-castanhaPortuguese
  • Бурошапочный земляной голубьRussian
  • Австралийская изумрудная горлицаRussian
  • Австралийский земляной голубьRussian
  • lesklica tichomorskáSlovak
  • Pacifički smaragdni golubSerbian
  • australisk smaragdduvaSwedish
  • นกเขาเขียวแปซิฟิกThai
  • Pasifik Zümrüt KumrusuTurkish
  • голуб-зеленокрил довгодзьобийUkrainian
  • 長嘴金鳩Chinese
  • 太平洋翠翼鳩〔褐枕翠翼鳩〕Chinese
  • 太平洋金鸠Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the Pacific emerald dove

Other species in the same genus Chalcophaps.

ComparePacific emerald dove vs Common emerald dovePacific emerald dove vs Stephan's emerald dove

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the Pacific emerald dove?

An adult Pacific emerald dove weighs 136.5 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the Pacific emerald dove live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the Pacific emerald dove for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the Pacific emerald dove endangered?

The Pacific emerald dove is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the Pacific emerald dove?

The Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris) belongs to the family Columbidae in the order Columbiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pacific-emerald-dove

MLA

“Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pacific-emerald-dove.

BibTeX
@misc{pacific_emerald_dove_2026,
  title = {Pacific emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pacific-emerald-dove},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}