Curaeus curaeus
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The austral blackbird (Curaeus curaeus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina and Chile, and it migrates to regions close by. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Its plumage is entirely black with a slight bluish hint, and its physical features consist of black legs, black eyes, and a sharp beak with missing pigmentation in the head, chest, and wings. Compared to other birds in its family, the Austral Blackbird has a highly varied voice, and they do a lot of singing and calling together.
Their main habitats are woodlands, forests, lakeshores, beaches, fields, valley bottoms, and rocky shores. It is commonly found in small flocks of 6 to 20 in and around the forest, and never in the open land. Can be commonly found in protected areas in national parks around Chile and Argentina. They are found in protected areas where the conditions support proper living and breeding.
They are typically drawn to nectar and like feeding on different kinds of flowers. When the bird feeds on these plants it will create a yellow color... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report an Austral Blackbird sighting in Santiago on a given day, based on 5,624 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 8th most-seen of the 110 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and August–November
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report an Austral Blackbird in Santiago on a given day, against about 40% in February, the lowest month.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Austral Blackbird 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 Santiago, in our data
Santiago is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Austral Blackbird sightings: about 60% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Icteridae
The closest relatives of the Austral Blackbird that you can see in Santiago (family Icteridae, New World Blackbirds and Orioles) are Shiny Cowbird (about 60%), Long-tailed Meadowlark (about 30%) and Yellow-winged Blackbird (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Austral Blackbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Santiago (5,624 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.
