Heliolais erythropterus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The red-winged prinia or the red-winged warbler (Prinia erythroptera) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It formerly belonged in the monotypic genus Heliolais. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where its natural habitat is dry savanna.
The red-winged prinia was described by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine in 1849 under the binomial name Drymoica erythroptera. The type locality is West Africa. The specific epithet erythroptera comes from the Ancient Greek eruthros for "red" and -pteros, "-winged".
There are four subspecies: Most taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorongosa National Park | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | |
| 2 | Niokolo-Koba National Park | 🇸🇳 Senegal | |
| 3 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Red-winged Warbler sighting in Niokolo-Koba National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 171st most-seen of the 215 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.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-winged Warbler in Niokolo-Koba National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–March and September, the lowest months. That is one of Niokolo-Koba National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 300 mm in August. May–July and October have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-winged Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 3
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Red-winged Warbler sightings, Niokolo-Koba National Park ranks 2nd at under 5%. The best odds are in Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique, about 10%).
Same family: Cisticolidae
The closest relatives of the Red-winged Warbler that you can see in Niokolo-Koba National Park (family Cisticolidae, Cisticolas and Allies) are Green-backed Camaroptera (about 50%), Senegal Eremomela (about 40%) and Tawny-flanked Prinia (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-winged Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Niokolo-Koba National Park (14 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.
