Touit batavicus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The lilac-tailed parrotlet (Touit batavicus) is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela.
The lilac-tailed parrotlet was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Psittaca batavica in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. Buffon believed that his specimen had come from Batavia (modern Jakarta) but the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch realised this was an error and in 1908 substituted Venezuela as the type locality. The lilac-tailed parrotlet is now placed in the genus Touit that was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 2 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Lilac-tailed Parrotlet sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 162nd most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lilac-tailed Parrotlet in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and August–January, the lowest months. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lilac-tailed Parrotlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 2
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Lilac-tailed Parrotlet sightings, Brownsberg Nature Park ranks 2nd at under 5%. The best odds are in Henri Pittier National Park (Venezuela, about 10%).
Same family: Psittacidae
The closest relatives of the Lilac-tailed Parrotlet that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Psittacidae, New World and African Parrots) are Dusky Parrot (about 40%), Blue-headed Parrot (about 30%) and Red-fan Parrot (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lilac-tailed Parrotlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (12 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.
