Topaza pella
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The crimson topaz (Topaza pella) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The crimson topaz was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus pella.
Linnaeus based his description on the "Long-tail'd red huming-bird" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist George Edwards in 1743 from a specimen owned by Charles Lennox, the Duke of Richmond. The specimen had been collected in Suriname. The specific epithet is from the Latin pellus meaning "dark-colored". The crimson topaz is now placed in the genus Topaza that was introduced by George Robert Gray in 1840 with the crimson topaz as the type species.
Three subspecies are recognised: The crimson topaz has been treated as conspecific with the fiery topaz (T. pyra) but currently (2021) the two are considered to form a superspecies. The male crimson topaz is 21 to 23 cm (8.3 to 9.1 in) long... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Crimson Topaz sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 20 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 142nd most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Crimson Topaz in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, August–October and December, the lowest months. That is one of Brownsberg Nature Park's wettest months, with about 300 mm of rain against 55 mm in October. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Crimson Topaz 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 Brownsberg Nature Park, in our data
Brownsberg Nature Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Crimson Topaz sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Trochilidae
The closest relatives of the Crimson Topaz that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Trochilidae, Hummingbirds) are Eastern Long-tailed Hermit (about 60%), Fork-tailed Woodnymph (about 60%) and Straight-billed Hermit (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Crimson Topaz is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (20 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.
