Pericrocotus speciosus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus) is a small passerine bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They are common resident breeding birds in forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country. While the male of most subspecies are scarlet to orange with black upper parts, the females are usually yellow with greyish olive upper parts. Several former subspecies have been elevated to a species status in recent works. These include the orange minivet. All subspecies have the same habits of gleaning for insects and are often seen in mixed-species foraging flocks, usually foraging in small groups, high up in the forest canopy.
The scarlet minivet is 20–22 cm (7.9–8.7 in) long with a strong dark beak and long wings. The male has black upperparts and head, and scarlet underparts, tail edges, rump and wing patches. The shape and colour of the wing patches and the shade or orange in the male varies across populations. In the subspecies nigroluteus and marchesae from south Philippines the scarlet/orange is entirely... Wikipedia →
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Minivet sighting in Ho Chi Minh City on a given day, based on 61 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 35th most-seen of the 103 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.
February and December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Minivet in Ho Chi Minh City on a given day, against about 10% in April to September, the lowest months. Those are among Ho Chi Minh City's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain a month against 220 mm in October.
Between 3 and 6 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scarlet Minivet sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Among the best
Of the 12 cities where we can rate Scarlet Minivet sightings, Ho Chi Minh City ranks 2nd at about 20%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Hong Kong (China, about 20%).
Same genus: Pericrocotus
The closest relatives of the Scarlet Minivet that you can see in Ho Chi Minh City (genus Pericrocotus, Minivets) are Brown-rumped Minivet (about 10%) and Ashy Minivet (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scarlet Minivet is recorded against all the birds logged in Ho Chi Minh City (61 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.
