Friendly Bush-Warbler

Friendly Bush-Warbler

Locustella accentor

Silhouette: Afsarnayakkan · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR Endemic
Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
at Kinabalu Park

In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%

40 Verified sightings at Kinabalu Park From 2019 to 2026
40 In 1 park
August Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Friendly Bush-Warbler

The friendly bush warbler (Locustella accentor), also known as the Kinabalu friendly warbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It is endemic to the island of Borneo. Wikipedia →

Sounds

Song0:47

Malaysia · 2026

© Ding Li Yong · XC1102851 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:08

Malaysia · 2024

© Wai Loon Wong · XC946333 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song0:59

Malaysia · 2024

© Lim Ying Hien · XC953272 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Kinabalu Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
<5%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Friendly Bush-Warbler in Kinabalu Park?

Rare

Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Friendly Bush-Warbler sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 40 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 152nd most-seen of the 247 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Friendly Bush-Warbler in Kinabalu Park?

Any time of year

In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Friendly Bush-Warbler in Kinabalu Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.

What time of day is best to see a Friendly Bush-Warbler?

Between midnight and 3 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Friendly Bush-Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Friendly Bush-Warbler?

Only Kinabalu Park, in our data

Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Friendly Bush-Warbler sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Where does the Friendly Bush-Warbler sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Friendly Bush-Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Kinabalu Park (40 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.

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