Chiroxiphia boliviana
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Yungas manakin (Chiroxiphia boliviana) is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. The Yungas manakin was originally described in 1889 as Chiroxiphia pareola boliviana, a subspecies of the blue-backed manakin. A study published in 1987 noted how it differed in morphology, song, and courtship display from C. pareola sensu stricto. Following the study's suggestions, taxonomic systems elevated it to species rank with its current English name.
The Yungas manakin is monotypic. The Yungas manakin is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 14 to 22 g (0.49 to 0.78 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic, though both sexes have a short tuft of feathers on the forecrown. Adult males have a small dark red patch in the center of their crown and a pale blue back. The rest of their plumage is black. Adult females have olive-green upperparts with browner wing coverts and flight feathers. Their underparts are a paler green that becomes paler still on the lower belly and undertail coverts. Both sexes have a brown, gray-brown, or reddish brown iris, a black or blackish bill, and highly variable... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Yungas Manakin sighting in Amboró National Park on a given day, based on 239 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 19th most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, 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 Yungas Manakin in Amboró National Park on a given day, against about 20% in July, the lowest month. That is one of Amboró National Park's driest months, with about 90 mm of rain against 340 mm in January. June has too few records to rate.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yungas Manakin 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 Amboró National Park, in our data
Amboró National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yungas Manakin sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Yungas Manakin that you can see in Amboró National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Purplish Jay (about 80%), Plush-crested Jay (about 80%) and Crested Oropendola (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yungas Manakin is recorded against all the birds logged in Amboró National Park (239 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.
