Lepidothrix serena
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The white-fronted manakin (Lepidothrix serena) is a species of bird in the family Pipridae, the manakins. It is native to French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and northeastern Brazil where it inhabits subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. The male is mainly black, with a blue rump, yellow belly patches and a conspicuous patch of white feathers extending forwards from its forehead. The female is gray and black with a pale yellow belly and white eye ring. This is a fairly common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the white-fronted manakin in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected from Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name Le manakin à front blanc and the Latin Manacus alba fronte. 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... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a White-fronted Manakin sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 163 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 7th most-seen of the 221 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.
December and January
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a White-fronted Manakin in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against about 40% in August–September and November, the lowest months. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 6 and 9 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-fronted Manakin sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Brownsberg Nature Park, in our data
Brownsberg Nature Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-fronted Manakin sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pipridae
The closest relatives of the White-fronted Manakin that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Pipridae, Manakins) are White-throated Manakin (about 50%), Golden-headed Manakin (about 40%) and White-crowned Manakin (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-fronted Manakin is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (163 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.
