Parus leuconotus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The white-backed black tit (Melaniparus leuconotus), also known as the white-backed tit, is a species of bird in the family Paridae. It is found in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is boreal forests. The white-backed black tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Melaniparus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Addis Ababa | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-backed Black Tit sighting in Addis Ababa on a given day, based on 29 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 45th most-seen of the 109 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-backed Black Tit in Addis Ababa on a given day, against under 5% in April to June, the lowest months. Those are among Addis Ababa's wettest months, with about 200 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in January.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-backed Black Tit sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Addis Ababa, in our data
Addis Ababa is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-backed Black Tit sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the White-backed Black Tit that you can see in Addis Ababa (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Brown-rumped Seedeater (about 80%), Pied Crow (about 80%) and Baglafecht Weaver (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-backed Black Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Addis Ababa (29 verified sightings), 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.
