Parus albiventris
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The white-bellied tit (Melaniparus albiventris) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. It is found in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The white-bellied tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Melaniparus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake Nakuru National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 3 | Kidepo Valley National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 4 | Aberdare National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 5 | Masai Mara National Reserve | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Lake Manyara National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Serengeti National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 8 | Samburu National Reserve | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 9 | Tarangire National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-bellied Tit sighting in Nairobi on a given day, based on 157 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 61st most-seen of the 234 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.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-bellied Tit in Nairobi on a given day, against about 10% in September to July, the lowest months. That is one of Nairobi's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 150 mm in April.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-bellied Tit 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 Nairobi, in our data
Nairobi is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-bellied Tit sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the White-bellied Tit that you can see in Nairobi (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Common Bulbul (about 80%), Abyssinian Thrush (about 70%) and Pied Crow (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-bellied Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Nairobi (157 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.
