Terpsiphone paradisi
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the monarch flycatcher family, Monarchidae. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, with resident and breeding populations in most of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, as well as parts of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Indian paradise flycatcher has a length of 20–50 cm (7.9–19.7 in) from beak to tail. Males have elongated central tail feathers, and a black and rufous plumage in some populations, while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head. Indian paradise flycatchers feed on insects, including grasshoppers, butterflies and praying mantises, as well as flies. The Indian paradise flycatcher typically captures prey in the air, kills it by hitting it on a rock, and then extracts the inner parts. often below a densely canopied tree.
The Indian paradise flycatcher was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema... Wikipedia →
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dushanbe | 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | |
| 5 | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Bhopal | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Srinagar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Paradise-Flycatcher sighting in Minneriya National Park on a given day, based on 202 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 38th most-seen of the 155 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Paradise-Flycatcher in Minneriya National Park on a given day, against about 10% in August and September, the lowest months. That is one of Minneriya National Park's driest months, with about 70 mm of rain against 340 mm in November.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Indian Paradise-Flycatcher 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 38
Of the 38 parks where we can rate Indian Paradise-Flycatcher sightings, Minneriya National Park ranks 7th at about 30%. The best odds are in Wilpattu National Park (Sri Lanka, about 60%), Yala National Park (Sri Lanka, about 50%) and Udawalawe National Park (Sri Lanka, about 50%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Indian Paradise-Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Minneriya National Park (202 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.
