Polyplectron germaini
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a pheasant in the family Phasianidae endemic to Indochina. The name commemorates the French colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rodolphe Germain. The bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than the male.
The phylogeny of this species is somewhat enigmatic. mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop as well as the nuclear ovomucoid intron G data confirms that it belongs to a clade together with the grey peacock-pheasant, but also the "brown" southernly species bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant and mountain peacock-pheasant. Biogeography suggests that it may indeed be the most ancient form in its clade, speciating parapatrically or peripatrically in Cochinchina (Kimball et al. 2001). This probably took place in the Late Pliocene, roughly 4-3 mya.
The Germain's peacock-pheasant is endemic to southern... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Germain's Peacock-Pheasant sighting in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, based on 617 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 34th most-seen of the 244 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Germain's Peacock-Pheasant in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, against about 20% in June, the lowest month. That is one of Cat Tien National Park's driest months, with about 80 mm of rain against 490 mm in July.
Between 2 and 5 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Germain's Peacock-Pheasant sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Cat Tien National Park, in our data
Cat Tien National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Germain's Peacock-Pheasant sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Phasianidae
The closest relatives of the Germain's Peacock-Pheasant that you can see in Cat Tien National Park (family Phasianidae, Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) are Red Junglefowl (about 50%), green-legged partridge (about 50%) and Green Peafowl (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is recorded against all the birds logged in Cat Tien National Park (617 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.
