Geoffroyus geoffroyi
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The red-cheeked parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the tip of northern Queensland, Australia. There are 17 subspecies currently recognized. It is a stocky short-tailed parrot with predominantly green plumage. It exhibits sexual dimorphism; the adult male has red cheeks and a mauve nape and top of head, while the female is duller with a brown head.
The red-cheeked parrot was first described by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein, 1811. It is one of three species classified in the genus Geoffroyus. This genus has occasionally been merged into Psittinus. Proposed races sumbavensis and tjindanae are synonyms of floresianus; stresemanni of rhodops; explorator too may be synonymous with rhodops. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 2 | Edward Youde Aviary | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Red-cheeked Parrot sighting in Raja Ampat on a given day, based on 723 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 200 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May and July
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Red-cheeked Parrot in Raja Ampat on a given day, against about 40% in December, the lowest month.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-cheeked Parrot 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 Red-cheeked Parrot sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Red-cheeked Parrot that you can see in Raja Ampat (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Red-sided Eclectus (about 70%), Palm Cockatoo (about 50%) and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-cheeked Parrot is recorded against all the birds logged in Raja Ampat (723 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.
