Hylopezus nattereri
Silhouette: Edwin Price · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The speckle-breasted antpitta (Cryptopezus nattereri) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The speckle-breasted antpitta has a complicated taxonomic history. It was originally described in 1937 as Grallaria natteri. Soon it was realized that it and several other species did not belong in Grallaria so genus Hylopezus, which had earlier been merged into Grallaria, was resurrected for them. By the middle of the century the speckle-breasted antpitta had been reallocated as a subspecies of the white-browed antpitta (Hylopezus ochroleucus). A 1995 publication showed that it should again be treated as the species Hylopezus natteri. A 2019 publication showed that Hylopezus was paraphyletic with respect to two other genera and that the speckle-breasted antpitta properly belonged to none of them. The authors erected genus Cryptopezus for it.
The speckle-breasted antpitta is the only member of its genus and has no subspecies. The speckle-breasted antpitta is about 13.5 to 14 cm (5.3 to 5.5 in) long; two males weighed 31 and 33 g (1.1 and 1.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults... Wikipedia →
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Argentina · 2026
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Brazil · 2019
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Brazil · 2015
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Speckle-breasted Antpitta sighting in Itatiaia National Park on a given day, based on 130 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 176th most-seen of the 352 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–April and June–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Speckle-breasted Antpitta in Itatiaia National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Speckle-breasted Antpitta sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Itatiaia National Park, in our data
Itatiaia National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Speckle-breasted Antpitta sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Speckle-breasted Antpitta is recorded against all the birds logged in Itatiaia National Park (130 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.
