Poecilodryas cerviniventris
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) is a small, diurnal, insectivorous, perching (passerine) bird in the family Petroicidae, a group commonly known as the Australo-Papuan or Australasian robins. It is also known as the buff-sided fly-robin, buff-sided shrike-robin, and Isabellflankenschnäpper (German). The buff-sided robin is endemic to northern Australia, where it primarily occurs in riparian forests and monsoon vine thickets from the Kimberly region of Western Australia to the north-west Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria. The plumage of the adult birds is characterized by a dark hood and back with a prominent white stripe on the supercilium; a white throat, white wing and tail bars, and a striking buff to orange patch on the flank below the wings. Adult birds are not sexually dimorphic; however, males are generally larger and can be separated from females based on morphological measurements. Buff-sided robins predominantly take insects from the ground by sallying from an observational perch. Insects are also occasionally taken by hawking on the wing or by gleaning from the trunk or foliage of riparian vegetation.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-sided Robin sighting in Kakadu National Park on a given day, based on 76 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 118th most-seen of the 186 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.
January, March–April and September–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-sided Robin in Kakadu National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–August and December, the lowest months. February has too few records to rate.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Buff-sided 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 Kakadu National Park, in our data
Kakadu National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Buff-sided 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 Buff-sided Robin is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakadu National Park (76 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.
