Lophura inornata
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Salvadori's pheasant (Lophura inornata) is a landfowl bird of genus Lophura, native to Indonesia. It is found in the mountain rainforests of Sumatra. Thus it is also known as the Sumatran pheasant. This bird was first described in 1879 by the Italian ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori. The species name inornata means "without ornament". The Hoogerwerf's pheasant is usually thought to be a subspecies.
This species is classified as "near threatened" by the IUCN because of the reduction in its population size caused by the destruction of its habitat and hunting. The male and female Salvadori's pheasant are quite unlike each other in appearance, and in fact the male bird is very similar to the female crestless fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma). The male Salvadori's pheasant is 46 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in) in length and is plain black, with a bluish fringe to the feathers of body and neck. The tail is short and rounded. The beak is whitish-green and the iris orange-red. There is a yellowish-green or grey-green ring of bare skin round the eye, and the rest of the bare facial skin is bright red. The legs are greyish-blue with a strong spur. The female is slightly shorter and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kerinci Seblat National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoo Koki (Parque zoológico y botánico) | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Mořský svět | 🇨🇿 Czechia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Salvadori's Pheasant sighting in Kerinci Seblat National Park on a given day, based on 93 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 76th most-seen of the 203 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.
February–March, July–August and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Salvadori's Pheasant in Kerinci Seblat National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September, the lowest month. January has too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Salvadori's Pheasant sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kerinci Seblat National Park, in our data
Kerinci Seblat National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Salvadori's Pheasant sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Phasianidae
The closest relatives of the Salvadori's Pheasant that you can see in Kerinci Seblat National Park (family Phasianidae, Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies) are Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant (about 30%) and Red-bellied Hill Partridge (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Salvadori's Pheasant is recorded against all the birds logged in Kerinci Seblat National Park (93 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.
