The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.
Its head is blue-gray and its body is rufous-brown. The wings have iridescent green patches, and the sexes look similar.
It often walks on the forest floor by day to search for food, including seeds and fallen fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.