The Buru green pigeon was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

[2] Gmelin based his own description on "Le Pigeon Vert d'Amboine" that had been described and illustrated by the French ornithologists Mathurin Jacques Brisson and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

[3][4][5] The Buru green pigeon is now placed in the genus Treron that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.

[7][9] The Buru green pigeon usually occurs singly or in small groups.

Its flight is fast and direct, with the regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings that are characteristic of pigeons in general.