Edolisoma tenuirostre
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The Sahul cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre), previously known as the common cicadabird or slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of passerine bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is placed in the reinstated genus Edolisoma by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by Mayr & Diamond (2001); and Pedersen et al. (2018) described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the Indo-Pacific island region and Australia in the Pleistocene. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Royal National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 5 | Noosa National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 7 | Kosciuszko National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 8 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 9 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 10 | Blue Mountains National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Cicadabird sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 177 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 75th most-seen of the 208 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October and November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Cicadabird in Daintree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, the lowest month. Those are among Daintree National Park's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain a month against 380 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Cicadabird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate Common Cicadabird sightings, Daintree National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Springbrook National Park (Australia, about 20%).
Same family: Campephagidae
The closest relatives of the Common Cicadabird that you can see in Daintree National Park (family Campephagidae, Cuckooshrikes) are Varied Triller (about 50%), Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (about 10%) and White-bellied Cuckooshrike (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Cicadabird is recorded against all the birds logged in Daintree National Park (177 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.
