Batis pririt
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The pririt batis (Batis pririt) also known as the pririt puff-back flycatcher or pririt puffback, is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in Southern Africa and southwestern Angola. It is a small stout insect-eating bird, found in dry broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush.
The pririt batis is strikingly patterned. The adult male has a dark grey crown and back, black eye mask and white throat. It has a black rump and tail, and its wing are black with white edging to the flight feathers and a long white shoulder patch. The underparts are white with a broad black breast band and black speckles on the flanks. The female and juvenile plumages differ in that there is no black breast band, but the throat and breast are a warm buff colour.
The pririt batis hunts by flycatching, or by taking prey from the ground like a shrike. The song is typically a slow descending series of whistled notes: teuu, teuu, teuu, teuu. Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1 Pririt batis - Species text in The Atlas of Southern... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterberg Plateau Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 2 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 3 | Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 4 | Etosha National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pririt Batis sighting in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, based on 88 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 31st most-seen of the 108 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Pririt Batis in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, against under 5% in November, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pririt Batis 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 Pririt Batis sightings, Namib-Naukluft National Park ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Waterberg Plateau Park (Namibia, about 60%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Pririt Batis that you can see in Namib-Naukluft National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Cape Sparrow (about 80%), Familiar Chat (about 60%) and Pied Crow (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pririt Batis is recorded against all the birds logged in Namib-Naukluft National Park (88 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.
