Saxicola caprata
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The pied bush chat (Saxicola caprata) is a small passerine bird found ranging from West Asia and Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. About sixteen subspecies are recognized through its wide range with many island forms. It is a familiar bird of countryside and open scrub or grassland where it is found perched at the top of short thorn trees or other shrubs, looking out for insect prey. They pick up insects mainly from the ground, and were, like other chats, placed in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now considered as Old World flycatchers.
They nest in cavities in stone walls or in holes in an embankment, lining the nest with grass and animal hair. The males are black with white shoulder and vent patches whose extent varies among populations. Females are predominantly brownish while juveniles are speckled.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the pied bush chat in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected from the island of Luzon in the Philippines. He used the French name Le traquet de l'Isle de Luçon and the Latin Rubetra Lucionensis. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horton Plains National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Eravikulam National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Royal Bardia National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 5 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 6 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Mudumalai National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 10 | Komodo National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 11 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 14 | Ranthambore National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 15 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 16 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 17 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 18 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 19 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kathmandu | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 4 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Durg | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Tiruppur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Lucknow | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Pied Bushchat sighting in Chitwan National Park on a given day, based on 747 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 35th most-seen of the 367 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Pied Bushchat in Chitwan National Park on a given day, against about 20% in August and September, the lowest months. That is one of Chitwan National Park's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 660 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pied Bushchat 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 19
Of the 19 parks where we can rate Pied Bushchat sightings, Chitwan National Park ranks 5th at about 40%. The best odds are in Horton Plains National Park (Sri Lanka, about 90%), Eravikulam National Park (India, about 70%) and Keoladeo National Park (India, about 50%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Saxicola
The closest relatives of the Pied Bushchat that you can see in Chitwan National Park (genus Saxicola, Stonechats and Bushchats) are Siberian Stonechat (about 40%) and White-tailed Stonechat (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pied Bushchat is recorded against all the birds logged in Chitwan National Park (747 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.
