Gnorimopsar chopi
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
The chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi) is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Icteridae, which contains the New World blackbirds, grackles, New World orioles and related species. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Gnorimopsar. This species is found in South America south of the Amazon rainforest.
The chopi blackbird was first formally described as Agelaius chopi in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot with its type locality given as "Paraguay to Buenos Aires", the type locality was descignated as Paraguay in 1962 by Cuello and Gerzenstein. The genus Gnorimopsar is placed in the subfamily Agelaiinae, the New World blackbirds, of the family Icteridae.
The chopi blackbird has two subspecies: G. chopi chopi (Vieillot, 1919) - south east Bolivia, central and south eastern Brazil to Uruguay and northeastern Argentina. G. chopi sulcirostris (Spix, 1824) - eastern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina...
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 9 | Madidi National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 10 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 12 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Brasilia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 6 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Goiânia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 3 | Edward Youde Aviary | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Chopí Blackbird sighting in Madidi National Park on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 87th most-seen of the 239 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, July–September and November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Chopí Blackbird in Madidi National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January–February, May–June and October, the lowest months. March and December have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chopí Blackbird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
9th of 13
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Chopí Blackbird sightings, Madidi National Park ranks 9th at about 10%. The best odds are in Emas National Park (Brazil, about 70%), Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Brazil, about 70%) and Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Icteridae
The closest relatives of the Chopí Blackbird that you can see in Madidi National Park (family Icteridae, New World Blackbirds and Orioles) are Yellow-rumped Cacique (about 30%), Crested Oropendola (about 20%) and Russet-backed Oropendola (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chopí Blackbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Madidi National Park (22 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.
