Sericornis maculatus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area. Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species. It was reclassified as a species in 2019. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flinders Chase | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Rottnest Island | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Spotted Scrubwren sighting in Perth on a given day, based on 568 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 78th most-seen of the 162 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and April–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Spotted Scrubwren in Perth on a given day, against under 5% in January and March, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Spotted Scrubwren sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Perth, in our data
Perth is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Spotted Scrubwren sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Acanthizidae
The closest relatives of the Spotted Scrubwren that you can see in Perth (family Acanthizidae, Thornbills and Allies) are Weebill (about 30%), Western Gerygone (about 30%) and Yellow-rumped Thornbill (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Spotted Scrubwren is recorded against all the birds logged in Perth (568 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.
