Erythropygia barbata
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on François Desbordes' illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The miombo scrub robin (Tychaedon barbata) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. This species was formerly placed in the genus Cercotrichas.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Wikipedia →
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Malawi · 2023
© Marc Henrion · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kafue National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Central Bearded Scrub Robin sighting in Kafue National Park on a given day, based on 83 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 117th most-seen of the 338 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Central Bearded Scrub Robin in Kafue National Park on a given day, against about 10% in August–September and December–June, the lowest months. Those are among Kafue National Park's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 290 mm in January.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Central Bearded Scrub Robin 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 Kafue National Park, in our data
Kafue National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Central Bearded Scrub Robin sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Central Bearded Scrub Robin is recorded against all the birds logged in Kafue National Park (83 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.
