Common Cicadabird

Common Cicadabird

Edolisoma tenuirostre

Silhouette: PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Lamington National Park

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%

249 Verified sightings at Lamington National Park From 2019 to 2026
710 In all 10 parks
November Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Common Cicadabird

The Sahul cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre), previously known as the common cicadabird or slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of passerine bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is placed in the reinstated genus Edolisoma by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by Mayr & Diamond (2001); and Pedersen et al. (2018) described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the Indo-Pacific island region and Australia in the Pleistocene. Wikipedia →

Sounds

Song0:15

Australia · 2025

© Marc Anderson · XC1088937 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:27

Australia · 2025

© Peter Boesman · XC1066550 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:17

Papua New Guinea · 2000

© Phil Gregory · XC800937 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Springbrook National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~20%
2 Daintree National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~10%
3 Lamington National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~10%
4 Royal National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
5 Noosa National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
6 Litchfield National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
7 Kosciuszko National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
8 Raja Ampat 🇮🇩 Indonesia
<5%
9 Kakadu National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
10 Blue Mountains National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Brisbane 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%
2 Sydney 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Common Cicadabird in Lamington National Park?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Cicadabird sighting in Lamington National Park on a given day, based on 249 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 57th most-seen of the 171 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Common Cicadabird in Lamington National Park?

November

In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Cicadabird in Lamington National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April to September, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Common Cicadabird?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Cicadabird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Is Lamington National Park the best place to see a Common Cicadabird?

3rd of 10

Of the 10 parks where we can rate Common Cicadabird sightings, Lamington National Park ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Springbrook National Park (Australia, about 20%) and Daintree National Park (Australia, about 10%).

Where does the Common Cicadabird sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Common Cicadabird is recorded against all the birds logged in Lamington National Park (249 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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