Chalcomitra adelberti
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The buff-throated sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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Ghana · 2022
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakum National Park | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abidjan | 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-throated Sunbird sighting in Kakum National Park on a given day, based on 240 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 23rd most-seen of the 250 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 to November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-throated Sunbird in Kakum National Park on a given day, against about 30% in January and February, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Buff-throated Sunbird 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 Kakum National Park, in our data
Kakum National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Buff-throated Sunbird sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nectariniidae
The closest relatives of the Buff-throated Sunbird that you can see in Kakum National Park (family Nectariniidae, Sunbirds and Spiderhunters) are Collared Sunbird (about 70%), Olive Sunbird (about 50%) and Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Buff-throated Sunbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakum National Park (240 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.
