Cyrtodactylus baluensis
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Balu bow-fingered gecko or Besar Island bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus baluensis) is a species of gecko endemic to Borneo. It is known from Brunei, Sarawak and Sabah (Malaysia), and East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Balu Bow-fingered Gecko sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 70 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 69 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, August and November–December
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Balu Bow-fingered Gecko in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against under 5% in October, the lowest month.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Balu Bow-fingered Gecko 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 Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Balu Bow-fingered Gecko sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Balu Bow-fingered Gecko is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kinabalu Park (70 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.
