Pericrocotus speciosus
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus) is a small passerine bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They are common resident breeding birds in forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country. While the male of most subspecies are scarlet to orange with black upper parts, the females are usually yellow with greyish olive upper parts. Several former subspecies have been elevated to a species status in recent works. These include the orange minivet. All subspecies have the same habits of gleaning for insects and are often seen in mixed-species foraging flocks, usually foraging in small groups, high up in the forest canopy.
The scarlet minivet is 20–22 cm (7.9–8.7 in) long with a strong dark beak and long wings. The male has black upperparts and head, and scarlet underparts, tail edges, rump and wing patches. The shape and colour of the wing patches and the shade or orange in the male varies across populations. In the subspecies nigroluteus and marchesae from south Philippines the scarlet/orange is entirely... Wikipedia →
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Minivet sighting in Cuc Phuong National Park on a given day, based on 95 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 29th most-seen of the 159 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.
February
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Minivet in Cuc Phuong National Park on a given day, against about 10% in April, August and October, the lowest months. That is one of Cuc Phuong National Park's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain against 390 mm in August. July has too few records to rate.
Between 3 and 6 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scarlet Minivet sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
7th of 28
Of the 28 parks where we can rate Scarlet Minivet sightings, Cuc Phuong National Park ranks 7th at about 30%. The best odds are in Royal Manas National Park (Bhutan, about 60%), Namdapha National Park (India, about 50%) and Manas National Park (India, about 40%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scarlet Minivet is recorded against all the birds logged in Cuc Phuong National Park (95 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.
