Euneornis campestris
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In 3 days >90%
The orangequit (Euneornis campestris) is a species of passerine bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is endemic to Jamaica. The orangequit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla campestris. Linnaeus based his description on the "American Hedge-Sparrow" that George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1750 work, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, from a specimen collected in Jamaica. The species was moved to the genus Euneornis by the Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1856. The genus name Euneornis combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the genus Neornis introduced by Edward Blyth in 1845 and now a junior synonym of Cettia. The specific epithet campestris is Latin and means "of the fields".
The species' common name is derived from its orange throat and the English word quit, which refers to small passerines of tropical America; cf. grassquit, bananaquit. The orangequit is the only member of its genus and has no subspecies.
The orangequit is 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs 13.2 to... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park | 🇯🇲 Jamaica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Very likely
About 90% of wildlife watchers report an Orangequit sighting in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 1,166 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 3rd most-seen of the 91 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–May, July and September–November
In those months about 90% of wildlife watchers report an Orangequit in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, against about 80% in August and December, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Orangequit 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 Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, in our data
Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Orangequit sightings: about 90% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Orangequit that you can see in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Bananaquit (about 90%), Greater Antillean Bullfinch (about 60%) and Black-faced Grassquit (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Orangequit is recorded against all the birds logged in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (1,166 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.
