Turdus tephronotus
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The bare-eyed thrush (Turdus tephronotus) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It breeds during the rainy season.
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend is not known, but the population is not believed to be decreasing sufficiently rapidly to approach the thresholds under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mkomazi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 2 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 3 | Tsavo East National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Samburu National Reserve | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 5 | Ruaha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 6 | Lake Manyara National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Tarangire National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 8 | Amboseli National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mombasa | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report an African Bare-eyed Thrush sighting in Mombasa on a given day, based on 94 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 32nd most-seen of the 146 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report an African Bare-eyed Thrush in Mombasa on a given day, against about 30% in June, the lowest month.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most African Bare-eyed Thrush 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 Mombasa, in our data
Mombasa is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate African Bare-eyed Thrush sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the African Bare-eyed Thrush that you can see in Mombasa (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are House Crow (about 80%), Fork-tailed Drongo (about 70%) and Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the African Bare-eyed Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Mombasa (94 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.
