Pericrocotus divaricatus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The ashy minivet (Pericrocotus divaricatus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the minivet genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. While most of the minivets have shades of yellow, orange and red in their plumage, this species has only greys, whites and blacks. The male is distinctive with a white face and black nape although females can be confused with the female of the brown-rumped minivet. They forage in the canopy, often along with other minivets and join mixed-species foraging flocks.
It is 18.5–20 cm long. The male is grey above and whitish below. It has a black cap with a white forehead and there is a white band across the flight-feathers. The outer tail feathers are white. The bill and feet are black. The female's cap is grey apart from a black band between the bill and eye and a narrow white band above it. The call is a high-pitched, metallic trill. It is considered as closely related to Pericrocotus roseus and Pericrocotus cantonensis but differs in moult pattern. It is one of the few passerine birds that moult their primaries twice in a year and is the longest distance migrant among the minivets.
It breeds in south-east... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 3 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 4 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 5 | Khao Luang National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Gunung Leuser National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 7 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 8 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 9 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 10 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Busan | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 3 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 4 | Manila | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 5 | Sendai | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 6 | Xiamen City | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 7 | Phnom Penh | 🇰🇭 Cambodia | |
| 8 | Wenzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 10 | Hanoi | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Ashy Minivet sighting in Hanoi on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 89th most-seen of the 97 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ashy Minivet in Hanoi on a given day, against under 5% in May to March, the lowest months. That is one of Hanoi's driest months, with about 80 mm of rain against 320 mm in August.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ashy Minivet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
10th of 27
Of the 27 cities where we can rate Ashy Minivet sightings, Hanoi ranks 10th at under 5%. The best odds are in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam, about 10%), Busan (South Korea, about 10%) and Singapore (Singapore, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ashy Minivet is recorded against all the birds logged in Hanoi (5 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.
