Deroptyus accipitrinus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The red-fan parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus), also known as the hawk-headed parrot, is a New World parrot hailing from the Amazon rainforest. It is the only member of the genus Deroptyus. It is found in Brazil, Suriname, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, areas of northeast Peru, Venezuela, French Guiana and Guyana.
The red-fan parrot was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus accipitrinus. Linnaeus based his description on the "hawk-headed parrot" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by the English naturalist George Edwards in the fourth volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Linnaeus mistakenly specified the type locality as India. It was redesignated as Cayenne in French Guiana by Carl Hellmayr in 1905. The red-fan parrot is now the only species placed in the genus Deroptyus that was introduced in 1832 by the German naturalist Johann Wagler. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek derē meaning "neck" with ptuon meaning "fan". The specific epithet accipitrinus is from Latin and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Zoological Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | ZooParc de Beauval | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Zoo Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Dallas Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Lisbon Zoo | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 8 | Rio de Janeiro Zoological Garden | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Paphos Zoo | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | |
| 10 | Loro Parque | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 11 | Mangal das Garças | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 12 | Parque Zoológico Bosque Guarani | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 14 | Zoo Balneário Camboriú | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 15 | Johor Zoo | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 16 | Marine Life Park | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 17 | MaST Center Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 18 | Bird Park | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 19 | GüiráOga | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 20 | Lembang Park & Zoo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 21 | Singapore Miniature Zoo | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-fan Parrot sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 44 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 93rd most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-fan Parrot in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against about 10% in March–April, August and December, the lowest months. That is one of Brownsberg Nature Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 490 mm in May. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-fan Parrot sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Brownsberg Nature Park, in our data
Brownsberg Nature Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red-fan Parrot sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Red-fan Parrot that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Dusky Parrot (about 40%), Blue-headed Parrot (about 30%) and Golden-winged Parakeet (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-fan Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (44 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
