Cyanolanius madagascarinus
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Madagascar blue vanga (Cyanolanius madagascarinus) is a bird species in the family Vangidae. It is found in Madagascar, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the blue vanga in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on the island of Madagascar. He used the French name Le pie-griesche bleu de Madagascar and the Latin name Lanius Madagascariensis coeruleus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition in 1766, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the blue vanga. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Loxia madagascarina and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus Cyanolanius that was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranomafana National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | Ankarafantsika National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 3 | Mantadia National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Blue Vanga sighting in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, based on 375 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 21st most-seen of the 102 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, July and November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Blue Vanga in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, against about 30% in April, the lowest month. January and June have too few records to rate.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blue Vanga sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Blue Vanga sightings, Ranomafana National Park has the highest daily chance: about 40%. Next come Ankarafantsika National Park (Madagascar, about 30%) and Mantadia National Park (Madagascar, about 30%).
Same family: Vangidae
The closest relatives of the Blue Vanga that you can see in Ranomafana National Park (family Vangidae, Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies) are Tylas Vanga (about 60%), Red-tailed Vanga (about 60%) and Common Newtonia (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blue Vanga is recorded against all the birds logged in Ranomafana National Park (375 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.
