Turdus jamaicensis
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The white-eyed thrush (Turdus jamaicensis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae that is endemic to Jamaica. The white-eyed thrush was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial Turdus jamaicensis. Gmelin based his account on the "Jamaica thrush" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his multi-volume work A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the collection of the British Museum.
The species is monotypic: No subspecies are recognized. The white-eyed thrush is 23 to 24 cm (9.1 to 9.4 in) long and weighs about 59 g (2.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly reddish brown head with a white eye-ring and a white chin and throat streaked with chestnut-brown. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are slate gray. Their underparts are mostly pale gray-brown with a white crescent between the throat and breast and a white vent area. They have a dark iris, a blackish bill, and blackish... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park | 🇯🇲 Jamaica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a White-eyed Thrush sighting in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 582 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 22nd most-seen of the 91 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.
March to May
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a White-eyed Thrush in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, against about 40% in August and October, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-eyed Thrush 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 White-eyed Thrush sightings: about 60% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-eyed Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (582 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.
