Heterocercus flavivertex
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The yellow-crested manakin (Heterocercus flavivertex), also called the yellow-crowned manakin, is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The yellow-crested manakin is monotypic. It shares genus Heterocercus with the orange-crested manakin (H. aurantiivertex) and the flame-crested manakin (H. linteatus). The three form a superspecies.
The yellow-crested manakin is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs about 21 g (0.74 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a mostly dark olive head with an often hidden golden-yellow stripe on the crown, a slaty face, and a white throat. The throat feathers are long and silky. Their upperparts are dark olive. They have a sooty olive upper breast, a deep chestnut lower breast that becomes cinnamon-rufous on the belly, and olive flanks. Adult females have no yellow on their crown. Their head is mostly the same dark olive as their upperparts though their throat is gray. Their underparts are cinnamon-buff. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a long narrow dark bill, and dark legs and feet. Immatures resemble adult females. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
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Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Manakin sighting in Anavilhanas National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 208th most-seen of the 291 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-crowned Manakin in Anavilhanas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–June, August–October and December–January, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-crowned Manakin sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Anavilhanas National Park, in our data
Anavilhanas National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow-crowned Manakin sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pipridae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-crowned Manakin that you can see in Anavilhanas National Park (family Pipridae, Manakins) are Wire-tailed Manakin (about 30%), Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin (about 10%) and White-crowned Manakin (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-crowned Manakin is recorded against all the birds logged in Anavilhanas National Park (15 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.
