Ptilinopus viridis
Silhouette: L. Shyamal · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week >90%
The claret-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus viridis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands archipelago. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the claret-breasted fruit dove in his six volume Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on Ambon Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. He used the French name La tourterelle verte d'Amboine and the Latin Turtur viridis amboinensis. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the claret-breasted fruit dove which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba viridis and cited Brisson's work. The specific name viridis is the Latin word for "green". This... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove sighting in Raja Ampat on a given day, based on 455 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 28th most-seen of the 200 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove in Raja Ampat on a given day, against about 30% in February, April, June, October and December, the lowest months.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove 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 Raja Ampat, in our data
Raja Ampat is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Ptilinopus
The closest relatives of the Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove that you can see in Raja Ampat (genus Ptilinopus, Typical Fruit Doves) are Wompoo Fruit Dove (about 20%), Beautiful Fruit-Dove (about 10%) and White-breasted Fruit-Dove (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove is recorded against all the birds logged in Raja Ampat (455 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.
