Porzana cinerea
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct. Wikipedia →
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Thailand · 2025
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Indonesia · 2017
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Australia · 2024
© Tom Hunt · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Way Kambas National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denpasar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 2 | Makassar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Phnom Penh | 🇰🇭 Cambodia | |
| 4 | Cebu City | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 5 | Davao City | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 6 | Manila | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 7 | Bangkok | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 8 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-browed Crake sighting in Phnom Penh on a given day, based on 249 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 40th most-seen of the 154 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.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-browed Crake in Phnom Penh on a given day, against about 10% in May to March, the lowest months. That is one of Phnom Penh's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain against 190 mm in June.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-browed Crake sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate White-browed Crake sightings, Phnom Penh ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Denpasar (Indonesia, about 20%) and Makassar (Indonesia, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-browed Crake is recorded against all the birds logged in Phnom Penh (249 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.
