Sporophila peruviana
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The parrot-billed seedeater (Sporophila peruviana) is a small species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in various shrubby habitats in western Ecuador and western Peru. Outside the breeding season, it is quite social and frequently seen in flocks with other small seed-eating birds.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guayaquil | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Parrot-billed Seedeater sighting in Machalilla National Park on a given day, based on 107 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 69th most-seen of the 248 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.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Parrot-billed Seedeater in Machalilla National Park on a given day, against under 5% in November, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Parrot-billed Seedeater sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Machalilla National Park, in our data
Machalilla National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Parrot-billed Seedeater sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Sporophila
The closest relatives of the Parrot-billed Seedeater that you can see in Machalilla National Park (genus Sporophila, Typical Seedeaters and Seed-Finches) are Variable Seedeater (about 30%) and Chestnut-throated Seedeater (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Parrot-billed Seedeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Machalilla National Park (107 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.
