Dicaeum pectorale
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The olive-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum pectorale) is a small passerine bird in the flowerpecker family, Dicaeidae. It is found in far western New Guinea and on adjacent islands. It is a small bird, with males having olive upperparts, greyish-green underparts, a white throat and a scarlet breast patch. Females are similar to males, but lack the scarlet breast patch. It is mainly frugivorous, also supplementally feeding on spiders.
The olive-crowned flowerpecker is one of 41 species in the genus Dicaeum. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the red-capped flowerpecker, Louisiade flowerpecker, or the Halmahera flowerpecker. The olive-crowned flowerpecker was first described by Saloman Müller in 1843. The generic name Dicaeum is from the Greek δικαιον (dikaion), most likely referring to the scarab beetle, while the specific epithet pectorale is from the Latin pectoralis (of the breast). Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an Olive-crowned Flowerpecker sighting in Raja Ampat on a given day, based on 349 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 39th most-seen of the 200 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and August
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Olive-crowned Flowerpecker in Raja Ampat on a given day, against about 20% in September to April, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Olive-crowned Flowerpecker 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 Olive-crowned Flowerpecker sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Olive-crowned Flowerpecker that you can see in Raja Ampat (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Willie Wagtail (about 80%), Helmeted Friarbird (about 70%) and Pacific Swallow (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Olive-crowned Flowerpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Raja Ampat (349 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.
