Leptotyphlops merkeri
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
No species of the same family or order lives in Nairobi, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Merker's thread Snake sighting in Nairobi on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 7th most-seen of the 9 reptiles 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.
December
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Merker's thread Snake in Nairobi on a given day, against under 5% in January–March, May and August–November, the lowest months.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Merker's thread Snake sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Nairobi, in our data
Nairobi is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Merker's thread Snake sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Merker's thread Snake is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Nairobi (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.
