Leucippus fallax
Silhouette: Ferran Sayol · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~80%
The buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) is a species of bird in the hummingbird family Trochilidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Leucippus. This bird lives in dry forest and scrubland in northern South America where it feeds on insects and the nectar, flesh, and juice of cactus fruits.
The male and female buffy hummingbird are similar in appearance but the female tends to be less brightly coloured, and there is considerable variation in shade between individuals. The back and upper parts of the bird are a dull green, the underparts pale cinnamon-buff and the belly and undertail coverts white. The tail is dull green with a transverse grey bar and a rounded end. There is a white spot behind the eye and the beak is slender and straight. The upper mandible is black and the lower one pale with a black tip. The bird ranges from 8.5 to 9 cm (3.3 to 3.5 in) in length.
The hummingbird is a member of the class Aves, the order Apodiformes, the family Trochilidae and the genus Leucippus. This genus formerly included additional species. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Leucippus was polyphyletic. To resolve the polyphyly... 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 | Maracaibo | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Buffy Hummingbird sighting in Maracaibo on a given day, based on 88 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 22nd most-seen of the 89 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, 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 Buffy Hummingbird in Maracaibo on a given day, against about 10% in March–April and June–October, the lowest months. That is one of Maracaibo's wettest months, with about 85 mm of rain against 5 mm in February.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Buffy Hummingbird 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 Maracaibo, in our data
Maracaibo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Buffy Hummingbird sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Buffy Hummingbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Maracaibo (88 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.
