Setophaga graciae
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
Grace's warbler (Setophaga graciae) is a small New World warbler that specializes in pine woods. Grace's warbler was discovered by Elliott Coues in the Rocky Mountains in 1864. He requested that the new species be named after his 18-year-old sister, Grace Darling Coues, and his request was honored when Spencer Fullerton Baird described the species scientifically in 1865.
Grace's warbler is a small bird, 11–13 cm long. It is mostly gray on top, with broken black streaks across the back and flanks and two white bars on the wings. The throat and breast are a vibrant yellow, and the rest of the underparts are white. It has a yellow half-eye ring under the eye and a long yellow "eyebrow" stripe that starts at the base of the beak and runs above the eye, fading to white after it passes the eye.
Grace's warblers breed from the south-western United States to Nicaragua and winter in their breeding range from north-eastern Sinaloa and north-western Durango south. They are almost always found in pine forests, even in migration, though at the northern end of their range (in southern Nevada and Utah and southwestern Colorado) they... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celaque National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 2 | La Tigra National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 3 | Guadalupe Mountains National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Zion National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Grand Canyon National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 7 | Cusuco National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 8 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 9 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇧🇿 Belize |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 2 | Toluca | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 3 | Guadalajara | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 4 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 5 | Mexico City | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 6 | San Francisco | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Los Angeles | 🇺🇸 United States |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Grace's Warbler sighting in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 247th most-seen of the 277 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Grace's Warbler in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, against under 5% in May to March, the lowest months. That is one of Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary's driest months, with about 75 mm of rain against 300 mm in June.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grace's Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
10th of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate Grace's Warbler sightings, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary ranks 10th at under 5%. The best odds are in Celaque National Park (Honduras, about 30%), La Tigra National Park (Honduras, about 20%) and Guadalupe Mountains National Park (United States, about 10%).
Same genus: Setophaga
The closest relatives of the Grace's Warbler that you can see in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (genus Setophaga, Setophaga Warblers) are American Redstart (about 40%), Magnolia Warbler (about 40%) and Hooded Warbler (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grace's Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
