The central tail feathers are also olive-brown and the outer ones blackish with obvious white tips.

The adult nominate female is browner than the male, with more of an olive cast to the flanks and green-tinged upperparts.

The juvenile is similar to the female but its breast has rust and drab brown bars and the upperparts' feathers show rusty edges.

The subspecies are found thus:[3][5] The grey-fronted dove inhabits humid forest, generally in the interior but also at the edges and in clearings.

It builds a platform nest of twigs in a bush, tree, or palm and lays one or two white eggs.

The grey-fronted dove's song is "a single mournful monotonous note 'wooOOOoo' which fades in and out.