Elaenia albiceps
Silhouette: Edwin Price · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The white-crested elaenia (Elaenia albiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The white-crested elaenia was formally described in 1837 as Muscipeta albiceps by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye. They noted that the species occurred in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Yungas region in Bolivia and the Tacna region of Peru. In 1925 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr restricted the type locality to the Yungas region in Bolivia based on the provenance of the type species. The specific epithet albiceps combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with -ceps meaning "-headed". The white-crested elaenia is now placed in the genus Elaenia that was introduced in 1836 by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall.
Six subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 5 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 8 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 10 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Quito | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Arequipa | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 7 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 9 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia sighting in Quito on a given day, based on 360 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 26th most-seen of the 167 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and December–January
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia in Quito on a given day, against about 10% in May and July, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-crested Elaenia sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 10
Of the 10 cities where we can rate White-crested Elaenia sightings, Quito ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Santiago (Chile, about 30%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-crested Elaenia is recorded against all the birds logged in Quito (360 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.
