Columba punicea
Silhouette: Steven Traver · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The pale-capped pigeon (Columba punicea), also known as the purple wood pigeon, is a species of large pigeon that is found patchily distributed in parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has a slow flight and spends a lot of time sitting still in the foliage of large fruiting trees, often in riverine forest on the plains. It is mainly brown above and chestnut below with the a sheen of green or amethyst. Males have a whitish grey cap while females have a brownish grey cap and less gloss on the feathers. They are frugivores, foraging in small groups in the canopy of trees but sometimes descending to the ground for seeds and fallen fruit.
This large 36–40.5 cm-long pigeon is all-dark chestnut brown with a contrasting pale crown. The male has whitish-grey crown, purplish-maroon upperparts with faint green gloss on the neck; more strongly iridescent mantle and back; dark slate-coloured rump and uppertail-coverts; vinous-brown ear-coverts, throat and underparts[ slaty-grey undertail-coverts; and blackish tail and flight feathers. Females have a more brownish-grey crown. Juveniles initially have the crown colour matching the mantle, duller wing-coverts and... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Bhubaneshwar | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-capped Pigeon sighting in Bhubaneshwar on a given day, based on 84 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 73rd most-seen of the 148 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December and January
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-capped Pigeon in Bhubaneshwar on a given day, against under 5% in February–July and September–October, the lowest months. Those are among Bhubaneshwar's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain a month against 340 mm in July.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale-capped Pigeon sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Bhubaneshwar, in our data
Bhubaneshwar is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Pale-capped Pigeon sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale-capped Pigeon is recorded against all the birds logged in Bhubaneshwar (84 verified sightings), 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.
