Garrulax berthemyi
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The buffy laughingthrush (Pterorhinus berthemyi), also known as the chestnut-winged laughingthrush, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the rusty laughingthrush, P. poecilorhynchus; a species restricted to Taiwan following the split. Compared to the rusty laughingthrush, the buffy laughingthrush has paler grey underparts, more contrasting rufous wings, broader white tips to the tail, and distinct black lores.
This species was formerly placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Nanjing | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Buffy Laughingthrush sighting in Nanjing on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 58th most-seen of the 162 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Buffy Laughingthrush in Nanjing on a given day, against under 5% in March and July–December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Buffy Laughingthrush 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 Nanjing, in our data
Nanjing is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Buffy Laughingthrush sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Garrulax
The closest relatives of the Buffy Laughingthrush that you can see in Nanjing (genus Garrulax, Typical Laughingthrushes) are Masked Laughingthrush (about 70%), Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush (about 30%) and Chinese Hwamei (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Buffy Laughingthrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Nanjing (7 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.
