Distribution
The Metallic Pigeon is distributed to tropical forests of eastern Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa and surrounding southwest Pacific islands. A subspecies, the Lord Howe Pigeon, used to exist on Lord Howe Island in Australia, but was exterminated by hunting c. 1853.
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