Ducula aenea
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In 3 days >90%
The green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea) is a large forest pigeon. The large range extends from Nepal, southern India and Sri Lanka eastwards to southern China, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the green imperial pigeon in his six volume Ornithologie. He used the French name Le pigeon ramier des Moluques and the Latin Palumbus moluccensis. 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 green imperial pigeon which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba aenea and cited Brisson's work. Brisson believed his specimen had come from the Maluku Islands but the species does not occur there and in 1918 the type locality was designated as the island of Flores in Indonesia. The specific name aenea is from the... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Komodo National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Danum Valley Conservation Area | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 9 | Tanjung Puting National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 10 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 11 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Kaziranga National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Way Kambas National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 14 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 15 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 16 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 17 | Bali Barat National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 18 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 19 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 20 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 21 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 22 | Horton Plains National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 23 | Kerinci Seblat National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 24 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India |
Very likely
About 80% of wildlife watchers report a Green Imperial-Pigeon sighting in Tangkoko Nature Reserve on a given day, based on 911 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the most-seen of the 138 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 90% of wildlife watchers report a Green Imperial-Pigeon in Tangkoko Nature Reserve on a given day, against about 70% in April–June and September–February, the lowest months.
Between midnight and 3 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green Imperial-Pigeon sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Among the best
Of the 24 parks where we can rate Green Imperial-Pigeon sightings, Tangkoko Nature Reserve ranks 2nd at about 80%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (Malaysia, about 80%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Ducula
The closest relatives of the Green Imperial-Pigeon that you can see in Tangkoko Nature Reserve (genus Ducula, Imperial Pigeons) are White Imperial-Pigeon (about 70%), White-bellied Imperial-Pigeon (about 30%) and Pied Imperial Pigeon (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green Imperial-Pigeon is recorded against all the birds logged in Tangkoko Nature Reserve (911 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.
