Synallaxis frontalis
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The sooty-fronted spinetail (Synallaxis frontalis) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The sooty-fronted spinetail's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World treat it as monotypic.
This article follows the no-subspecies model. The sooty-fronted spinetail is 14 to 16 cm (5.5 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 11 to 17 g (0.39 to 0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a thin brownish line through the eye on an otherwise brownish gray face. Their forecrown ("front") is dark gray-brown, their hindcrown and nape dark rufous, and their back, rump and uppertail coverts brown with a rufescent tinge. Their wing coverts are dark rufous and their flight feathers tawny-rufous with dusky tips. Their tail is dark rufous... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 5 | Goiânia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Brasilia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Sooty-fronted Spinetail sighting in Belo Horizonte on a given day, based on 147 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 60th most-seen of the 220 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Sooty-fronted Spinetail in Belo Horizonte on a given day, against under 5% in July, the lowest month. That is one of Belo Horizonte's wettest months, with about 220 mm of rain against 5 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sooty-fronted Spinetail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 10
Of the 10 cities where we can rate Sooty-fronted Spinetail sightings, Belo Horizonte ranks 6th at about 10%. The best odds are in Rosario (Argentina, about 40%), Buenos Aires (Argentina, about 30%) and Campo Grande (Brazil, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sooty-fronted Spinetail is recorded against all the birds logged in Belo Horizonte (147 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.
