Psittacula longicauda
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The long-tailed parakeet (Psittacula longicauda) or Burung Bayan Nuri in Malay is a parakeet endemic to the regions of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sumatra, Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (including Singapore). It is allopatric with the congener, the Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri, except in the Andaman Islands where they occur together.
The long-tailed parakeet was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Psittacus longicauda in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The type locality is Malacca on the southern region of the Malay Peninsula. The long-tailed parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800. The name of the genus is... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanjung Puting National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 2 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 4 | Danum Valley Conservation Area | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 5 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 2 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Kuching | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 4 | Johor Bahru | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children's Park, Guindy | 🇮🇳 India |
No species of the same family or order lives in Kuching, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Parakeet sighting in Kuching on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 57 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Parakeet in Kuching on a given day, against under 5% in February–May, August and October, the lowest months. December has too few records to rate.
Between 1 and 4 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Long-tailed Parakeet sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Long-tailed Parakeet sightings, Kuching ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Singapore (Singapore, about 20%) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-tailed Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Kuching (13 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.
