Chlorophoneus nigrifrons
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The black-fronted bushshrike (Chlorophoneus nigrifrons) is a passerine bird of the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae. It inhabits forests mainly in East Africa. It forms a superspecies with the many-colored bushshrike (C. multicolor) and the two are sometimes considered to be a single species.
The bird is 18–19 centimetres long. It is variable in appearance and has several different colour morphs. All birds have green upperparts, grey crown and upper back, yellow tip to the tail and dark bill and legs. The orange morph has a black mask and forehead and orange underparts, shading to yellow under the tail. The red morph is similar but redder on the throat and breast with yellow on the belly and undertail-coverts. The buff form has buff underparts and a pale throat. The black morph has an entirely black face, forehead, throat and breast and green belly and undertail-coverts. Females are duller than the males with less black on the forehead. Juvenile birds have buffish underparts with dark barring and yellow edges to the wing-feathers. The song includes repeated bell-like phrases. Pairs often duet together.
It has a patchy distribution and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arusha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 2 | Mkomazi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 3 | Gorongosa National Park | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | |
| 4 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Fronted Bushshrike sighting in Mkomazi National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 198th most-seen of the 272 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November and December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Fronted Bushshrike in Mkomazi National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April and June–August, the lowest months. Those are among Mkomazi National Park's wettest months, with about 140 mm of rain a month against 5 mm in July. May has too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Fronted Bushshrike sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Black-Fronted Bushshrike sightings, Mkomazi National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Arusha National Park (Tanzania, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Fronted Bushshrike is recorded against all the birds logged in Mkomazi National Park (11 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.
