Periparus elegans
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The elegant tit (Periparus elegans) is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist montane forests. Small, sexes similar, with 9 races differing by shading and the amount and location of the white or yellow spotting in the wings and black; male top of head, throat, and upper breast glossy blue black; nape black with yellow spot; mantle black with white spots; lower back yellowish grey; tail black feathers edged white on basal 1/2 and second; primaries edged white; face, lower breast, and belly yellow. Female is duller. imm resembles ad; has yellowish throat and blackish moustachial streaks. Bill black sometimes with gray at base in ad, yellowish to yellow orange with top and bottom horn in inn; eye dark brown; legs gray.
The species was formerly included in the much larger genus Parus but was moved to Pardaliparus and then to Periparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Manila | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Elegant Tit sighting in Manila on a given day, based on 403 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 52nd most-seen of the 191 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February, June and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Elegant Tit in Manila on a given day, against under 5% in July, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Elegant Tit sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Manila, in our data
Manila is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Elegant Tit sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Elegant Tit that you can see in Manila (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Yellow-vented Bulbul (about 90%), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 80%) and Philippine Pied-Fantail (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Elegant Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Manila (403 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.
