Grey-sided Flowerpecker

Grey-sided Flowerpecker

Dicaeum celebicum

Silhouette: Rachael Joakim · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR Endemic
Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Makassar

In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%

10 Verified sightings at Makassar
490 In 1 park From 2019 to 2026
July Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Grey-sided Flowerpecker

The grey-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum celebicum) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Found in the Wakatobi archipelago (south-east of Sulawesi) Wikipedia →

Sounds

Call0:43

Indonesia · 2025

© Richard E. Webster · XC1075572 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song0:36

Indonesia · 2008

© David Farrow · XC37516 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Call0:25

Indonesia · 2024

© Ding Li Yong · XC924375 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Tangkoko Nature Reserve 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~50%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Makassar 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Grey-sided Flowerpecker in Makassar?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Grey-sided Flowerpecker sighting in Makassar on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 41st most-seen of the 66 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.

What time of day is best to see a Grey-sided Flowerpecker?

Between 6 and 9 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grey-sided Flowerpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Grey-sided Flowerpecker?

Only Makassar, in our data

Makassar is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Grey-sided Flowerpecker sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Which relatives of the Grey-sided Flowerpecker live in Makassar?

Same order: Passeriformes

The closest relatives of the Grey-sided Flowerpecker that you can see in Makassar (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 60%), Yellow-vented Bulbul (about 50%) and Pacific Swallow (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Grey-sided Flowerpecker sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Grey-sided Flowerpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Makassar (10 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.

← Back to Makassar