Pericrocotus cantonensis
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861. It breeds in China and winters in Indochina. Its natural habitats are temperate forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 2 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 4 | Khao Luang National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 5 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-rumped Minivet sighting in Hefei on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 43rd most-seen of the 83 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and June
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-rumped Minivet in Hefei on a given day, against about 10% in July to April, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-rumped Minivet sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
2nd of 10
Of the 10 cities where we can rate Brown-rumped Minivet sightings, Hefei ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Hangzhou (China, about 20%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Brown-rumped Minivet that you can see in Hefei (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Azure-winged Magpie (about 90%), Light-vented Bulbul (about 90%) and Chinese Blackbird (about 90%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-rumped Minivet is recorded against all the birds logged in Hefei (21 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.
