Prinia cinereocapilla
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The grey-crowned prinia (Prinia cinereocapilla) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Bhutan, northern India and Nepal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and arable land.It is threatened by habitat loss, including forest fires.
The grey-crowned prinia is 11 cm long and weighs 6–8·5 g. A small, neatly proportioned and relatively short-tailed prinia with small and slim bill. In fresh plumage has rufous forehead. During the breeding season, it has blue-gray ear-coverts, and no supercilium. It can be difficult to distinguish from other prinia. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-crowned Prinia sighting in Chitwan National Park on a given day, based on 77 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 179th most-seen of the 367 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January to April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-crowned Prinia in Chitwan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to December, the lowest months. Those are among Chitwan National Park's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 660 mm in July.
Only Chitwan National Park, in our data
Chitwan National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Gray-crowned Prinia sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Prinia
The closest relatives of the Gray-crowned Prinia that you can see in Chitwan National Park (genus Prinia, Prinias) are Gray-breasted Prinia (about 30%), Plain Prinia (about 20%) and Ashy Prinia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Gray-crowned Prinia is recorded against all the birds logged in Chitwan National Park (77 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.
