Phaethornis pretrei
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The planalto hermit (Phaethornis pretrei) is a species of hummingbird. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru. At one time, the planalto hermit was suggested to belong to a monotypic genus Anisoterus but this treatment was quickly rejected. It is closely related to the sooty-capped hermit (P. augusti) and may form a superspecies with it. It has no recognized subspecies, but several that have been proposed have been shown to be based on aberrant specimens or individual variation.
The planalto hermit is about 14 to 16.5 cm (5.5 to 6.5 in) long. Males weigh 4.5 to 7 g (0.16 to 0.25 oz) and females 3 to 5 g (0.11 to 0.18 oz). This medium-sized hermit has mostly olive green upperparts with reddish uppertail coverts. The next-to-inner tail feathers are longer than the others and all have white tips. Their underparts are cinnamon red. The face has a black "mask" with a white supercilium and gular stripe. The sexes are similar but the female has shorter wings and a less strongly decurved bill.
Major taxonomic systems place the planalto hermit in a wide swath of Brazil south of the Amazon rainforest... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 5 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maceió | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Planalto Hermit sighting in Serra da Canastra National Park on a given day, based on 192 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 54th most-seen of the 294 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June, August and October
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Planalto Hermit in Serra da Canastra National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January, the lowest month. Those are among Serra da Canastra National Park's driest months, with about 65 mm of rain a month against 280 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Planalto Hermit sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 9
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Planalto Hermit sightings, Serra da Canastra National Park ranks 2nd at about 30%. The best odds are in Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil, about 40%).
Same family: Trochilidae
The closest relatives of the Planalto Hermit that you can see in Serra da Canastra National Park (family Trochilidae, Hummingbirds) are White-vented Violetear (about 50%), Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (about 30%) and Glittering-bellied Emerald (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Planalto Hermit is recorded against all the birds logged in Serra da Canastra National Park (192 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.
