Myrmothera campanisona
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The thrush-like antpitta (Myrmothera campanisona) is a species of bird in the antpitta family Grallariidae. It is native to Amazonia. The thrush-like antpitta was described in 1778 by the French polymath Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Buffon used the French name "Le grand Béfroi". A hand-colored engraving was published separately to accompany Buffon's description. Buffon did not introduce scientific names but 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann coined the binomial name Myrmornin campanisonam for Buffon's bird. The specific epithet campanisona combines the Late Latin campana meaning "bell" with the Latin sonus meaning "sounding". The thrush-like antpitta was known under a large number of scientific names before arriving in genus Myrmothera that was introduced in 1816 by Louis Pierre Vieillot.
The thrush-like antpitta has these five subspecies: What is now the Tapajos antpitta (M. subcanescens) was previously treated as a sixth subspecies. Beginning in 2018 taxonomic... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 2 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 4 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Thrush-like Antpitta sighting in Manu National Park on a given day, based on 174 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 297th most-seen of the 641 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May, September and November–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Thrush-like Antpitta in Manu National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, June–August and October, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Thrush-like Antpitta sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 7
Of the 7 parks where we can rate Thrush-like Antpitta sightings, Manu National Park ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 10%) and Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Thrush-like Antpitta is recorded against all the birds logged in Manu National Park (174 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.
