Coracias temminckii
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The purple-winged roller (Coracias temminckii) is a species of bird in the family Coraciidae. It is endemic to the Sulawesi subregion in Indonesia and can be found on the islands of Sulawesi, Bangka, Lembeh, Manterawu, Muna and Butung.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The purple-winged roller was formally described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Garrulus temminckii. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the Dutch ornithologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The type locality is the island of Sulawesi. The purple-winged roller is now one of nine species placed in the genus Coracias that was introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that the purple-winged roller was most closely related to the Indochinese roller (Coracias affinis).
The phylogenetic relationships among the Coracias species are shown below, from the molecular study by Johansson et al. (2018) Alternate names for the purple-winged roller include the Celebes roller, Sulawesi roller, and Temminck's roller.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Purple-winged Roller sighting in Tangkoko Nature Reserve on a given day, based on 509 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 9th most-seen of the 138 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.
September
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Purple-winged Roller in Tangkoko Nature Reserve on a given day, against about 40% in January–February and June, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Purple-winged Roller sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Tangkoko Nature Reserve, in our data
Tangkoko Nature Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Purple-winged Roller sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Purple-winged Roller is recorded against all the birds logged in Tangkoko Nature Reserve (509 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.
