Psittacula longicauda
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
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 |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Parakeet sighting in Danum Valley Conservation Area on a given day, based on 61 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 178th most-seen of the 258 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, July and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Parakeet in Danum Valley Conservation Area on a given day, against under 5% in May–June, August–October and December–March, the lowest months.
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.
4th of 5
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Long-tailed Parakeet sightings, Danum Valley Conservation Area ranks 4th at under 5%. The best odds are in Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia, about 40%), Sepilok (Malaysia, about 30%) and Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (Malaysia, about 30%).
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Long-tailed Parakeet that you can see in Danum Valley Conservation Area (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot (about 30%) and Blue-rumped Parrot (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-tailed Parakeet is recorded against all the birds logged in Danum Valley Conservation Area (61 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.
