Cryptillas victorini
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Victorin's warbler (Cryptillas victorini) or Victorin's scrub warbler, is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It was recently split from the genus Bradypterus and now belongs to a monotypic genus Cryptillas.
It is endemic to the fynbos of South Africa's coastal Afromontane area. The common name and scientific name commemorates Johan Fredrik Victorin (1831-1855), a Swedish traveler who visited South Africa. Victorin's warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Victorin's Warbler sighting in Garden Route National Park on a given day, based on 67 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 129th most-seen of the 222 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, March–April, June and August–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Victorin's Warbler in Garden Route National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May, July and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Victorin's Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Garden Route National Park, in our data
Garden Route National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Victorin's Warbler sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Victorin's Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Garden Route National Park (67 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.
