Curruca mystacea
In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
Menetries's warbler or Ménétries's warbler (Curruca mystacea) is a small passerine bird of Southwest Asia belonging to the genus Curruca. The name of the species commemorates Édouard Ménétries, the French zoologist who described the species in 1832. It is closely related to the Sardinian warbler (Curruca melanocephala) of the Mediterranean basin and is similar to it in appearance.
The Menetries's warbler is 12 to 14 cm long with a wingspan of 15 to 19 cm and weighs about 9-11 grams. Its fairly long tail is blackish with white on the outer-feathers and is often held cocked. It is frequently wagged up and down or from side to side. The bill is fairly heavy and is dark with a pinkish patch at the base. There is a pale bare ring around the eye.
The male of the nominate subspecies C. m. mystacea is dark greyish above and whitish below with a white submoustachial stripe and a pink throat and breast. It has a dark cap which is dull black at the front but becomes paler further back and merges into the grey nape unlike the Sardininan warbler which has an entirely jet-black cap. Menetries's warblers have rather plain tertial feathers unlike the Sardinian warbler which has tertials... Wikipedia →
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Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Menetries warbler sighting in Dubai on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 99th most-seen of the 170 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Menetries warbler in Dubai on a given day, against under 5% in November to September, the lowest months.
5th of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Menetries warbler sightings, Dubai ranks 5th at under 5%. The best odds are in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, about 10%), Kuwait City (Kuwait, about 10%) and Yerevan (Armenia, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Menetries warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Dubai (24 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.
