Apalis flavida
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The yellow-breasted apalis (Apalis flavida) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. The brown-tailed apalis (A. flavocincta) was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.
It is widespread across Sub-Saharan Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, and moist savanna. Image at ADW Yellow-breasted apalis - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 2 | Zanzibar City | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 3 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 5 | Lilongwe | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 6 | Serrekunda | 🇬🇲 Gambia | |
| 7 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 8 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 9 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 10 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-breasted Apalis sighting in Lake Manyara National Park on a given day, based on 83 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 69th most-seen of the 307 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.
February and April
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-breasted Apalis in Lake Manyara National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January, June–July and October, the lowest months. Those are among Lake Manyara National Park's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain a month against 15 mm in September.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-breasted Apalis sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
16th of 40
Of the 40 parks where we can rate Yellow-breasted Apalis sightings, Lake Manyara National Park ranks 16th at about 20%. The best odds are in uMkhuze Game Reserve (South Africa, about 50%), Nairobi National Park (Kenya, about 40%) and iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Cisticolidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-breasted Apalis that you can see in Lake Manyara National Park (family Cisticolidae, Cisticolas and Allies) are Green-backed Camaroptera (about 40%), Rattling Cisticola (about 30%) and Tawny-flanked Prinia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-breasted Apalis is recorded against all the birds logged in Lake Manyara 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.
