Monticola sharpei
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on François Desbordes' illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The forest rock thrush (Monticola sharpei) is a songbird in the family Muscicapidae, formerly placed in the Turdidae together with the other chats. It now includes Benson's rock thrush and Amber Mountain rock thrush as subspecies.
It is endemic to Madagascar. The type locality is the forests east of Ambatondrazaka, which in turn lies south of Lake Alaotra. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranomafana National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Forest Rock-Thrush sighting in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, based on 247 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 102 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Forest Rock-Thrush in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, against about 10% in August, the lowest month. January and June have too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Forest Rock-Thrush sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Ranomafana National Park, in our data
Ranomafana National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Forest Rock-Thrush sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Muscicapidae
The closest relatives of the Forest Rock-Thrush that you can see in Ranomafana National Park (family Muscicapidae, Old World Flycatchers, Robins, and Chats) are Madagascar Magpie-Robin (about 60%) and African Stonechat (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Forest Rock-Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Ranomafana National Park (247 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.
