The Mindanao Brown Dove is known from forests on Mindanao and Basilan in the Philippines. A conservation account describes its use of upland forest and fruiting trees.
The 1909 species account describes a brown head with a dark line beside the eye, a grayish-white breast, ochre-brown belly, and a gray band near the tail tip.
The conservation account reports records in upland forest and transition forest and notes use of fruiting trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.