Conirostrum bicolor
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The bicolored conebill (Conirostrum bicolor) is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is a resident breeder in South America from Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south and east to the Guianas, northeast Peru and Brazil.
The bicolored conebill is 11.4 cm long and weighs 11 g. The adult is grey-blue above and buff-tinged grey below, with red eyes, pink legs and a sharp, pointed bill. The primary flight feathers are bluish with brown edgings. The sexes are similar, although the female may be a little duller, but immature birds are greenish above and have pale yellow underparts. Birds sometimes breed in immature plumage.
It is similar to the pearly-breasted conebill, alongside which it occurs in the Amazon. It also resembles the female hooded tanager, but is much smaller and more delicate-looking than that species. The bicolored conebill has a disjunct range made of two populations, one restricted to the coasts of northern South America, from the Atlantic coast of Colombia to the shores of southern Brazil, and another found along the Amazon river. The Amazonian population is found from the mouth of the river, albeit scarcely... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Santos | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Maracaibo | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 5 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Bicolored Conebill sighting in Rio de Janeiro on a given day, based on 78 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 138th most-seen of the 278 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bicolored Conebill in Rio de Janeiro on a given day, against under 5% in June to April, the lowest months. That is one of Rio de Janeiro's driest months, with about 70 mm of rain against 230 mm in December.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bicolored Conebill sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Bicolored Conebill sightings, Rio de Janeiro ranks 5th at under 5%. The best odds are in Vitória (Brazil, about 20%), Fortaleza (Brazil, about 20%) and Santos (Brazil, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bicolored Conebill is recorded against all the birds logged in Rio de Janeiro (78 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.
