Leptasthenura fuliginiceps
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The brown-capped tit-spinetail (Leptasthenura fuliginiceps) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia. The brown-capped tit-spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 9 to 13 g (0.32 to 0.46 oz). It is a small, slender, long-tailed furnariid with a short bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale dull buff supercilium on an otherwise plain brownish face. Their crown is brown, their upper back a paler brown, and their lower back, rump, and uppertail coverts are refescent. Their wings are mostly rufous. Their tail is rufous; it is graduated and the feathers narrow at the tips giving a spiny appearance. Their underparts are pale tawny brownish with a rufescent tinge to the flanks and undertail coverts. Their iris is brown to dark brown, their maxilla black to dusky brownish horn, their mandible horn to pearl-gray with a dusky tip, and their legs and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | La Paz | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Bioparque Municipal Vesty Pakos | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail sighting in La Paz on a given day, based on 62 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 30th most-seen of the 88 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail in La Paz on a given day, against about 10% in February, June–August and October, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail 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 La Paz, in our data
La Paz is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail is recorded against all the birds logged in La Paz (62 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.
