Touit surdus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The golden-tailed parrotlet (Touit surdus) is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to eastern Brazil. The golden-tailed parrotlet is monotypic. However, the northern population might merit separation as a subspecies.
The golden-tailed parrotlet is about 16 cm (6.3 in) long. Its body is mostly green, darker above than below, and rather emerald green on the rump and uppertail coverts. Its forehead, lores, and cheeks are yellow; it has a white eye ring. Its scapulars are olive-brown. Its flight feathers are dusky brown with green edges, its primary coverts dark brown, the other wing coverts green, and the carpal area blue. Males' central tail feathers are green and the others greenish yellow; all have narrow black tips. Females are very similar to males but have somewhat duller underparts and greener tail feathers.
The golden-tailed parrotlet has a disjunct distribution in northeastern and eastern Brazil. It is found in Ceará, intermittently from Pernambuco to Alagoas, and again intermittently between Bahia and São Paulo... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Golden-tailed Parrotlet sighting in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, based on 115 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 118th most-seen of the 336 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.
May–June and August–September
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Golden-tailed Parrotlet in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, the lowest month. Those are among Serra dos Órgãos National Park's driest months, with about 95 mm of rain a month against 310 mm in November.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Golden-tailed Parrotlet sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Serra dos Órgãos National Park, in our data
Serra dos Órgãos National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Golden-tailed Parrotlet sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Golden-tailed Parrotlet is recorded against all the birds logged in Serra dos Órgãos National Park (115 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.
