Elaenia albiceps
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The white-crested elaenia (Elaenia albiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The white-crested elaenia was formally described in 1837 as Muscipeta albiceps by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye. They noted that the species occurred in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Yungas region in Bolivia and the Tacna region of Peru. In 1925 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr restricted the type locality to the Yungas region in Bolivia based on the provenance of the type species. The specific epithet albiceps combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with -ceps meaning "-headed". The white-crested elaenia is now placed in the genus Elaenia that was introduced in 1836 by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall.
Six subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 5 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 8 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 10 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Quito | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Arequipa | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 7 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 9 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia sighting in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 64 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 119th most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and November, the lowest months. Those are among Chapada dos Guimarães National Park's driest months, with about 65 mm of rain a month against 240 mm in March. February to April have too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-crested Elaenia sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate White-crested Elaenia sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Argentina, about 70%), Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (Chile, about 60%) and Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina, about 50%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Elaenia
The closest relatives of the White-crested Elaenia that you can see in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (genus Elaenia, Typical Elaenias) are Yellow-bellied Elaenia (about 30%), Plain-crested Elaenia (about 20%) and Small-billed Elaenia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-crested Elaenia is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (64 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.
