Ptilinopus alligator
Silhouette: L. Shyamal · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The black-banded fruit dove (Ptilinopus alligator) is a large (38–44 cm in length, 450-570 g in weight) pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head and neck by broad black band.
The species is endemic to Australia, where it is restricted to the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment. Patches of monsoonal rainforest. Fruit from forest trees, especially figs. Lays single egg on open platform of sticks in a forest tree. Wikipedia →
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Australia · 2012
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-banded Fruit-Dove sighting in Kakadu National Park on a given day, based on 289 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 73rd most-seen of the 186 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and November–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black-banded Fruit-Dove in Kakadu National Park on a given day, against about 10% in April and May, the lowest months. Those are among Kakadu National Park's wettest months, with about 180 mm of rain a month against almost none in August. February has too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-banded Fruit-Dove sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kakadu National Park, in our data
Kakadu National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-banded Fruit-Dove sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-banded Fruit-Dove is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakadu National Park (289 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.
