๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Metallic Pigeon live?

Columba vitiensis has 4,197 records in 13 countries and territories, from 1788 to 2026. Most records come from New Caledonia.

Metallic Pigeon
Metallic Pigeon โ€” nrg800 / CC BY 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeColumba

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
New Caledonia 1,004
Fiji 858
Indonesia 784
Philippines 430
Samoa 423
Vanuatu 292
Papua New Guinea 127
Malaysia 100
Solomon Islands 98
Timor-Leste 64
Australia 15
Brunei 1
Taiwan 1

Related animals

Others in the family Columbidae.

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Mourning Dove
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Rock Pigeon
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Eurasian Collared-Dove
9,617,509 records
Common Wood-Pigeon
Common Wood-Pigeon
9,376,381 records
White-winged Dove
White-winged Dove
3,306,755 records
Spotted Dove
Spotted Dove
2,755,341 records
Stock Dove
1,543,089 records
Laughing Dove
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1,503,941 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.