Picumnus granadensis
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
The greyish piculet (Picumnus granadensis) is a species of bird in subfamily Picumninae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is endemic to Colombia. The greyish piculet and the olivaceous piculet (P. olivaceus) were at one time considered to be conspecific and are now treated as sister species. However, the "evidence for treatment as separate species is weak".
The greyish piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 12 to 13 g (0.42 to 0.46 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black crown and nape with small yellow tips on the feathers of the front and top and white spots on the rest. Their ear coverts are chestnut brown with a few white streaks, their cheeks off-white with blackish feather tips, and the sides of their neck gray-brown with white spots or streaks. Their hindneck and upperparts are grayish brown, often with an olive tinge. Their flight feathers are dark brown with yellowish green edges. Their tail is dark brown; the innermost pair of feathers have white inner webs and the outer... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farallones de Cali National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Los Nevados National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Grayish Piculet sighting in Cali on a given day, based on 260 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 55th most-seen of the 226 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Grayish Piculet in Cali on a given day, against about 10% in June–September and December–April, the lowest months. Those are among Cali's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in August.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grayish Piculet 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 Cali, in our data
Cali is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Grayish Piculet sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Grayish Piculet that you can see in Cali (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Red-crowned Woodpecker (about 80%), Spot-breasted Woodpecker (about 20%) and Lineated Woodpecker (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grayish Piculet is recorded against all the birds logged in Cali (260 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.
