Dendrelaphis girii
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Dendrelaphis girii, Giri's bronzeback tree snake or Giri's bronzeback, is a species of diurnal, arboreal, Colubrid snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giri's Bronzeback sighting in Kochi on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 23rd most-seen of the 23 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, July and December–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giri's Bronzeback in Kochi on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, May–June and August–November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Giri's Bronzeback sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kochi, in our data
Kochi is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Giri's Bronzeback sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Colubridae
The closest relatives of the Giri's Bronzeback that you can see in Kochi (family Colubridae, Colubrid Snakes) are Chequered Keelback (about 30%), Dhaman (about 20%) and Loos Snake (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Giri's Bronzeback is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kochi (6 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.
