Phibalura flavirostris
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The swallow-tailed cotinga (Phibalura flavirostris) is a species of passerine bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The swallow-tailed cotinga was long considered to be a member of family Cotingidae. However, for a time some taxonomic systems were unsure and separated it as incertae sedis. A study published in 2014 firmly placed it in Cotingidae.
The swallow-tailed cotinga's further taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treat the taxon as a monotypic species. The IOC and HBW treat boliviana as a separate species and assign it the English names Palkachupa cotinga and Apolo cotinga respectively.
This article follows the monotypic species model. The swallow-tailed cotinga is about 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs about 43 to 60 g (1.5 to 2.1 oz). The sexes have different plumage though both have the eponymous long divided tail. Adult females have... Wikipedia →
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Brazil · 2019
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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 Swallow-tailed Cotinga sighting in Itatiaia National Park on a given day, based on 89 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 191st 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 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Swallow-tailed Cotinga in Itatiaia National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August and November–June, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Swallow-tailed Cotinga 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 Itatiaia National Park, in our data
Itatiaia National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Swallow-tailed Cotinga sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Cotingidae
The closest relatives of the Swallow-tailed Cotinga that you can see in Itatiaia National Park (family Cotingidae, Cotingas) are Chestnut-crowned Becard (about 30%), Greenish Schiffornis (about 20%) and Black-and-gold Cotinga (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Swallow-tailed Cotinga is recorded against all the birds logged in Itatiaia National Park (89 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.
