The Andaman Cuckoo-Dove is an island forest pigeon with a rusty-brown head and a long tail.
Its plumage is brown overall, with a rusty head and nape and a paler rufous throat. Fine dark streaks cross the breast, belly, and back, and the long tail is graduated.
It uses evergreen and secondary forest and eats fruit and berries. It is also recorded in gardens and clearings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.