A pigeon of eastern Madagascar’s forests, it has a silvery blue-grey neck, dark blue body, and conspicuous red tail. It feeds in the canopy on fruit.
Its neck is silvery blue-grey and its body dark blue. The tail, undertail, and bare skin around the face are red, while the eye is green-yellow.
It uses forest canopy and also occurs in degraded forest, feeding on fruit; it may gather in small groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.