Xanthotis macleayanus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Macleay's honeyeater (Xanthotis macleayanus) is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. Within Australia it has a limited distribution, occurring only in northern Queensland from Cooktown to the southern end of the Paluma Range. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and tropical moist lowland forests. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Macleay's Honeyeater sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 449 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 46th most-seen of the 208 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and August–October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Macleay's Honeyeater in Daintree National Park on a given day, against about 10% in April and May, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Macleay's Honeyeater sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Macleay's Honeyeater sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Meliphagidae
The closest relatives of the Macleay's Honeyeater that you can see in Daintree National Park (family Meliphagidae, Honeyeaters) are Helmeted Friarbird (about 50%), Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (about 50%) and Hornbill Friarbird (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Macleay's Honeyeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Daintree National Park (449 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.
