Ducula bicolor
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The pied imperial pigeon (Ducula bicolor) is a relatively large, pied species of pigeon. It is found in forest, woodland, mangrove, plantations and scrub in Southeast Asia, ranging from Myanmar and Thailand, throughout Indonesia and east to the Philippines (where it is locally known as camasu and balud-puti) and the Bird's Head Peninsula in New Guinea. It is mainly found on small islands and in coastal regions. It remains locally common, and is therefore considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International and IUCN.
Its taxonomy is confusing and remains unsettled. It has sometimes included the Torresian, yellowish and silver-tipped imperial pigeons as subspecies. The widespread nominate subspecies of the pied imperial pigeon differs from all these by its plain white thighs and undertail coverts (though often with a dark spot at the very tip), and its narrowly dark-tipped bluish bill. For comparison, the other species' have black-spotted undertail coverts and thighs (spotting mainly near thighs in silver-tipped imperial pigeon), the bill of the Torresian imperial pigeon is greenish-yellow, and the bills of the yellowish and silver-tipped imperial pigeons are bluish... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Komodo National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 2 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 2 | Davao City | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 3 | Cebu City | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disney's Animal Kingdom | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | San Diego Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Leipzig Zoological Garden | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Barcelona Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Ostrava Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 7 | Abilene Zoological Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Zoo Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Taman Safari Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 10 | Toronto Zoo | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 11 | Minnesota Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 12 | Taman Safari Bogor | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 13 | Taipei Zoo | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 14 | Columbus Zoo and Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 15 | Poznań Nowe Zoo | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 16 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 17 | Khao Kheow Open Zoo | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 18 | Kansas City Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 19 | Badoca Safari Park | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 20 | Sedgwick County Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 21 | Chester Zoo | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 22 | Safari World | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 23 | Nuremberg Zoo | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 24 | Tiergarten Am Tiergarten 28 in Nürnberg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 25 | Phoenix Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 26 | Birmingham Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 27 | Louisville Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 28 | Audubon Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 29 | Fonghuanggu Bird and Ecology Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 30 | Woodland Park Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 31 | Edinburgh Zoo | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 32 | Parc zoologique et forestier Michel-Corbasson | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 33 | Moody Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 34 | National Zoo of Malaysia | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 35 | Zoologischer Garten Leipzig | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 36 | Lisbon Zoo | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 37 | Memphis Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 38 | Wildlands | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 39 | Allwetterzoo Münster | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 40 | Houston Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 41 | Münster Zoo | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 42 | Melbourne Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 43 | San Antonio Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 44 | Fresno Chaffee Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 45 | Honolulu Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 46 | Schönbrunn Zoo | 🇦🇹 Austria | |
| 47 | Zoo Atlanta | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 48 | Hogle Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 49 | Lithuanian Zoo | 🇱🇹 Lithuania | |
| 50 | Łódź Zoo | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Pied Imperial Pigeon sighting in Raja Ampat on a given day, based on 409 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 37th 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.
April
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Pied Imperial Pigeon in Raja Ampat on a given day, against about 20% in March and June–July, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pied Imperial Pigeon sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 3
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Pied Imperial Pigeon sightings, Raja Ampat ranks 2nd at about 30%. The best odds are in Komodo National Park (Indonesia, about 40%).
Same genus: Ducula
The closest relatives of the Pied Imperial Pigeon that you can see in Raja Ampat (genus Ducula, Imperial Pigeons) are Pinon Imperial-Pigeon (about 60%), Spice Imperial-Pigeon (about 40%) and Purple-tailed Imperial-Pigeon (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pied Imperial Pigeon is recorded against all the birds logged in Raja Ampat (409 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.
