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The Peaceful dove (Geopelia placida) is a bird found in Australia. Open woods and gardens across Australia and southern New Guinea. It eats seeds and nuts and insects and other small invertebrates. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Peaceful dove lives

Open woods and gardens across Australia and southern New Guinea.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🌰 Seeds & nuts80%
• 🐛 Insects & bugs20%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by James Lambert (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC516483. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Peaceful dove

Where does the Peaceful dove live?

The Peaceful dove lives in Australia. Open woods and gardens across Australia and southern New Guinea.

What does the Peaceful dove eat?

seeds and nuts (about 80%), insects and other small invertebrates (about 20%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Peaceful dove endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from Australia & Oceania

• Australasian swamphen
• Shy albatross
• Brown honeyeater
• Fulmar prion
• Pied butcherbird
• Eastern spinebill

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.