Hylophilus flavipes
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The scrub greenlet (Hylophilus flavipes) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Tobago, and Venezuela. The scrub greenlet's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, AviList, and the independent South American Classification Committee assign it these seven subspecies:
Clements does recognize these taxa as distinctive within the full species, calling them the "scrub greenlet (yellow-green)", "scrub greenlet (Tobago)" and "scrub greenlet (scrub)". The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2 | Coiba National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 5 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 7 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Manuel Antonio National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Corcovado National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 11 | Marino Ballena National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 13 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet sighting in Caracas on a given day, based on 677 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 81st most-seen of the 295 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–October and December–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet in Caracas on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scrub Greenlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Scrub Greenlet sightings, Caracas ranks 3rd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Panama City (Panama, about 10%) and Valencia (Venezuela, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scrub Greenlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Caracas (677 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.
