Terpsiphone paradisi
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the monarch flycatcher family, Monarchidae. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, with resident and breeding populations in most of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, as well as parts of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Indian paradise flycatcher has a length of 20–50 cm (7.9–19.7 in) from beak to tail. Males have elongated central tail feathers, and a black and rufous plumage in some populations, while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head. Indian paradise flycatchers feed on insects, including grasshoppers, butterflies and praying mantises, as well as flies. The Indian paradise flycatcher typically captures prey in the air, kills it by hitting it on a rock, and then extracts the inner parts. often below a densely canopied tree.
The Indian paradise flycatcher was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema... Wikipedia →
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dushanbe | 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | |
| 5 | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Bhopal | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Srinagar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Paradise-Flycatcher sighting in Surat on a given day, based on 39 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 33rd most-seen of the 114 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Paradise-Flycatcher in Surat on a given day, against about 10% in May and October, the lowest months. That is one of Surat's driest months, with almost no rain against 450 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Indian Paradise-Flycatcher 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 69
Of the 69 cities where we can rate Indian Paradise-Flycatcher sightings, Surat ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Jabalpur (India, about 60%) and Raipur (India, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Indian Paradise-Flycatcher that you can see in Surat (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Red-whiskered Bulbul (about 70%), House Crow (about 60%) and Black Drongo (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Indian Paradise-Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Surat (39 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.
