Phylloscopus forresti
Silhouette: Jiekun He · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Sichuan leaf warbler (Phylloscopus forresti) is a species of leaf warbler found in central China. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jiuzhaigou National Park | 🇨🇳 China |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chengdu | 🇨🇳 China |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Sichuan Leaf-Warbler sighting in Jiuzhaigou National Park on a given day, based on 77 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 131 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Sichuan Leaf-Warbler in Jiuzhaigou National Park on a given day, against about 20% in November, the lowest month. That is one of Jiuzhaigou National Park's wettest months, with about 150 mm of rain against 15 mm in December. January to March have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sichuan Leaf-Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Jiuzhaigou National Park, in our data
Jiuzhaigou National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sichuan Leaf-Warbler sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Phylloscopus
The closest relatives of the Sichuan Leaf-Warbler that you can see in Jiuzhaigou National Park (genus Phylloscopus, Leaf Warblers) are Buff-barred Warbler (about 50%), Hume's Warbler (about 50%) and Tickell's Leaf Warbler (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sichuan Leaf-Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Jiuzhaigou National Park (77 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.
