Lophotriccus galeatus
Silhouette: Emily Willoughby · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The helmeted pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus galeatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The helmeted pygmy tyrant was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a sample collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Montacilla galeata in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.
In the mid-twentieth century some authors placed the helmeted pygmy tyrant by itself in genus Colopteryx; that genus was soon merged into Lophotriccus. Several authors have suggested that genus Lophotriccus should be merged into genus Hemitriccus. Genus Lophotriccus had been introduced by the German ornithologist... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant sighting in Belém on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 94th most-seen of the 144 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February, May and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant in Belém on a given day, against under 5% in March–April, June–August and November–January, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant 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 Belém, in our data
Belém is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tyrannidae
The closest relatives of the Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant that you can see in Belém (family Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers) are Great Kiskadee (about 90%), Tropical Kingbird (about 70%) and Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant is recorded against all the birds logged in Belém (12 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.
