Pyriglena leuconota
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The East Amazonian fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil. The East Amazonian fire-eye was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824 and given the binomial name Myothera leuconota. The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.
The East Amazonian fire-eye's taxonomy remains unsettled. The International Ornithological Congress, the Clements taxonomy, and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society treat it as a species with these three subspecies:
However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats the three taxa as subspecies of what it calls the white-backed fire-eye, with the binomial Pyriglena leuconota sensu lato. Starting in 2020 the other three systems split the white-backed into the East Amazonian, Tapajos, and western fire-eyes.
The Tapajos fire-eye is 16 to 18 cm... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an East Amazonian Fire-eye sighting in Machalilla National Park on a given day, based on 41 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 121st most-seen of the 248 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.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an East Amazonian Fire-eye in Machalilla National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, April, June–August and November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most East Amazonian Fire-eye sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate East Amazonian Fire-eye sightings, Machalilla National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Amboró National Park (Bolivia, about 30%).
Same family: Thamnophilidae
The closest relatives of the East Amazonian Fire-eye that you can see in Machalilla National Park (family Thamnophilidae, Typical Antbirds) are Collared Antshrike (about 30%), Plain Antvireo (about 10%) and Great Antshrike (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the East Amazonian Fire-eye is recorded against all the birds logged in Machalilla National Park (41 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.
