Hylophilus flavipes
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The scrub greenlet (Hylophilus flavipes) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Tobago, and Venezuela. The scrub greenlet's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, AviList, and the independent South American Classification Committee assign it these seven subspecies:
Clements does recognize these taxa as distinctive within the full species, calling them the "scrub greenlet (yellow-green)", "scrub greenlet (Tobago)" and "scrub greenlet (scrub)". The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2 | Coiba National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 5 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 7 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Manuel Antonio National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Corcovado National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 11 | Marino Ballena National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 13 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet sighting in Coiba National Park on a given day, based on 82 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 22nd most-seen of the 118 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–February and July
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet in Coiba National Park on a given day, against about 20% in August, the lowest month. Those are among Coiba National Park's driest months, with about 200 mm of rain a month against 590 mm in November. May and October have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scrub Greenlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Scrub Greenlet sightings, Coiba National Park ranks 2nd at about 40%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Main Ridge Forest Reserve (Trinidad and Tobago, about 40%).
Same family: Vireonidae
The closest relatives of the Scrub Greenlet that you can see in Coiba National Park (family Vireonidae, Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis) are Yellow-green Vireo (about 20%) and Rufous-browed Peppershrike (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scrub Greenlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Coiba National Park (82 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.
