Gnorimopsar chopi
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi) is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Icteridae, which contains the New World blackbirds, grackles, New World orioles and related species. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Gnorimopsar. This species is found in South America south of the Amazon rainforest.
The chopi blackbird was first formally described as Agelaius chopi in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot with its type locality given as "Paraguay to Buenos Aires", the type locality was descignated as Paraguay in 1962 by Cuello and Gerzenstein. The genus Gnorimopsar is placed in the subfamily Agelaiinae, the New World blackbirds, of the family Icteridae.
The chopi blackbird has two subspecies: G. chopi chopi (Vieillot, 1919) - south east Bolivia, central and south eastern Brazil to Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. G. chopi sulcirostris (Spix, 1824) - eastern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 9 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 11 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 12 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Brasilia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 6 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Goiânia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 3 | Edward Youde Aviary | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Chopí Blackbird sighting in Asuncion on a given day, based on 125 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 90th most-seen of the 224 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–July, September and December–February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Chopí Blackbird in Asuncion on a given day, against under 5% in March, August and October–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chopí Blackbird 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 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Chopí Blackbird sightings, Asuncion ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia, about 50%), Brasilia (Brazil, about 20%) and Campo Grande (Brazil, about 10%).
Same family: Icteridae
The closest relatives of the Chopí Blackbird that you can see in Asuncion (family Icteridae, New World Blackbirds and Orioles) are Shiny Cowbird (about 60%), Grayish Baywing (about 20%) and Epaulet Oriole (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chopí Blackbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Asuncion (125 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.
