Batis fratrum
Silhouette: Mathieu Pélissié · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Woodwards' batis (Batis fratrum) or the Zululand batis, is a species of small bird in the wattle-eyes family, Platysteiridae. It occurs in southeastern Africa where it is found in woodlands and forests. A description of Woodwards' batis by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley was included as a footnote in an article on birds from Lake St. Lucia in South Africa by the English missionaries and farmers Richard and John Woodward (the Woodward brothers) published in 1900. Shelley coined the binomial name Pachypora fratrum. The specific name fratrum is Latin for "of the brothers". Woodwards' batis is now placed in the genus Batis that was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1833. The species is monotypic.
Woodwards' batis is 10.5 cm (4.1 in) in length and weighs 10.3–13.8 g (0.36–0.49 oz). It is a small active bird which is similar to a flycatcher and shows the typical patterns and plumage colours of the genus Batis. It is blue-grey above with a short white supercilium, black mask on the face, an orange-red eyes and the tail is black with the outer tail feathers edged white and all of the tail feathers except the middle two are... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Woodwards' Batis sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 402 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 62nd most-seen of the 351 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.
May and September–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Woodwards' Batis in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against about 20% in January–April and June–August, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Woodwards' Batis sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in our data
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Woodwards' Batis sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Woodwards' Batis is recorded against all the birds logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (402 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.
