Hylophilus flavipes
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The scrub greenlet (Hylophilus flavipes) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Tobago, and Venezuela. The scrub greenlet's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, AviList, and the independent South American Classification Committee assign it these seven subspecies:
Clements does recognize these taxa as distinctive within the full species, calling them the "scrub greenlet (yellow-green)", "scrub greenlet (Tobago)" and "scrub greenlet (scrub)". The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2 | Coiba National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 5 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 7 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Manuel Antonio National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Corcovado National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 11 | Marino Ballena National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 13 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet sighting in Parque Natural Metropolitano on a given day, based on 168 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 124th most-seen of the 328 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.
October and December–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scrub Greenlet in Parque Natural Metropolitano on a given day, against under 5% in February–September and November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scrub Greenlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
7th of 13
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Scrub Greenlet sightings, Parque Natural Metropolitano ranks 7th at under 5%. The best odds are in Main Ridge Forest Reserve (Trinidad and Tobago, about 40%), Coiba National Park (Panama, about 40%) and Piedras Blancas National Park (Costa Rica, about 10%).
Same genus: Hylophilus
The closest relatives of the Scrub Greenlet that you can see in Parque Natural Metropolitano (genus Hylophilus, Scrub Greenlets) are Lesser Greenlet (about 30%) and Golden-fronted Greenlet (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scrub Greenlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Parque Natural Metropolitano (168 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.
