Falco severus
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The Oriental hobby (Falco severus) is a species of falcon typically 27–30 cm long. It can be found locally in the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the north of the Indian subcontinent, across the eastern Himalayas, east across southern China and the Philippines, and southwards through Indochina to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands; its distribution is patchy, being absent from Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula, despite occurring both north and south of there. It has been recorded as a vagrant from Malaysia and southern India.
It is a member of Falco subgenus Falco, the hobbies. Adults are rich orange-red below, bluish-grey above with a black hood and pale throat. Juveniles have black streaks on its rufous chest and a mottled back. They do not exhibit sexual dimorphism. It differs from the Eurasian hobby in the wholly orange-red underparts (not just the legs and lower belly), and from the more similar Australian hobby in the more extensive... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 3 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 5 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Hobby sighting in Namdapha National Park on a given day, based on 371 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 39th most-seen of the 298 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and November
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Hobby in Namdapha National Park on a given day, against about 20% in March–May, October and December, the lowest months. Those are among Namdapha National Park's driest months, with about 70 mm of rain a month against 660 mm in July. June to September have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Oriental Hobby sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Yes
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Oriental Hobby sightings, Namdapha National Park has the highest daily chance: about 30%. Next come Khao Sok National Park (Thailand, about 10%) and Tangkoko Nature Reserve (Indonesia, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Oriental Hobby is recorded against all the birds logged in Namdapha National Park (371 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.
