Elminia albicauda
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The white-tailed blue flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and dry savanna. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 2 | Volcanoes National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 4 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 5 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 6 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 7 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher sighting in Kigali on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 201st most-seen of the 244 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.
April
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher in Kigali on a given day, against under 5% in May to March, the lowest months. That is one of Kigali's wettest months, with about 180 mm of rain against 30 mm in July.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kigali, in our data
Kigali is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher that you can see in Kigali (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Common Bulbul (about 80%), White-browed Robin-Chat (about 80%) and Bronze Mannikin (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Kigali (11 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.
