Microeca flavigaster
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The lemon-bellied flyrobin or lemon-bellied flycatcher (Microeca flavigaster) is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. Found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
John Gould described the species in 1843 from a specimen from Port Essington in the Northern Territory. The species name is from the Latin word flavus meaning 'yellow', and Ancient Greek gaster meaning 'belly'. Four subspecies are recognised: the nominate flavigaster is found across the top of the Northern Territory, subspecies flavissima in Cape York and New Guinea, subspecies laetissima along the central-northern Queensland coast, and subspecies tormenti in the Kimberley of northwestern Australia. The two Queensland subspecies are separated by the Atherton Tableland and Burdekin-Lynd Divide, and are possibly kept apart by a population of the jacky winter (Microeca fascinans) that replaces it in some areas. Genetic analysis shows that the two Queensland subspecies are very closely related, but that there is quite a large separation from subspecies flavigaster. Subspecies tormenti... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Nitmiluk National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-breasted Flycatcher sighting in Nitmiluk National Park on a given day, based on 76 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 38th most-seen of the 103 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and December–January
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Lemon-breasted Flycatcher in Nitmiluk National Park on a given day, against about 10% in July, the lowest month. Those are among Nitmiluk National Park's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain a month against almost none in August.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lemon-breasted 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.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Lemon-breasted Flycatcher sightings, Nitmiluk National Park ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Kakadu National Park (Australia, about 50%) and Litchfield National Park (Australia, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Lemon-breasted Flycatcher that you can see in Nitmiluk National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Great Bowerbird (about 80%), Brown Honeyeater (about 60%) and Torresian Crow (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lemon-breasted Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Nitmiluk National Park (76 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.
