Coccopygia quartinia
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The yellow-bellied waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) is a species of estrildid finch native to East Africa. The bird is now named yellow-bellied swee. It breeds in east central and south-eastern Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the swee waxbill.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volcanoes National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 2 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Aberdare National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Bale Mountains National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 5 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Arusha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 8 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 9 | Mkomazi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 11 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 12 | Lake Nakuru National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 13 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addis Ababa | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 2 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-bellied Waxbill sighting in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, based on 266 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 59th most-seen of the 252 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.
August
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-bellied Waxbill in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, against about 10% in October to February, the lowest months. That is one of Nyungwe National Park's driest months, with about 70 mm of rain against 550 mm in December.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-bellied Waxbill 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 13
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Yellow-bellied Waxbill sightings, Nyungwe National Park ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Volcanoes National Park (Rwanda, about 30%).
Same family: Estrildidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-bellied Waxbill that you can see in Nyungwe National Park (family Estrildidae, Waxbills and Allies) are Black-crowned Waxbill (about 40%), Dusky Crimson-wing (about 20%) and Kandt's Waxbill (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-bellied Waxbill is recorded against all the birds logged in Nyungwe National Park (266 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.
