Terpsiphone mutata
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days >90%
The Malagasy paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone mutata) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found in Comoros, Madagascar, and Mayotte. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Malagasy paradise flycatcher in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Madagascar. He used the French name Le gobe-mouche a longue queue de Madagascar and the Latin Muscicapa Madagascariensis Longicauda. 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 Malagasy paradise flycatcher. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Muscicapa mutata and cited Brisson's work.
The species remained in the genus Muscicapa with other Old World flycatchers until 1827, when Constantin Wilhelm Lambert... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankarafantsika National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | Mantadia National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 3 | Berenty Reserve | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 4 | Ranomafana National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher sighting in Berenty Reserve on a given day, based on 168 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 9th most-seen of the 63 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher sightings, Berenty Reserve ranks 3rd at about 70%. The best odds are in Ankarafantsika National Park (Madagascar, about 90%) and Mantadia National Park (Madagascar, about 70%). All parks ranked.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher that you can see in Berenty Reserve (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Crested Drongo (about 90%), Pied Crow (about 90%) and Common Jery (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Madagascar Paradise-Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Berenty Reserve (168 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.
