Coracina striata
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The bar-bellied cuckooshrike (Coracina striata) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and its natural habitats include mangrove forest, dry forest, swamp forest, and secondary forest. The plumage varies among the subspecies, with different amounts of barring on the underparts. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed the species as one of least-concern.
The bar-bellied cuckooshrike was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Corvus striatus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. Buffon believed that his specimen had come from New Guinea but the species does not occur there; the type locality has been... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Way Kambas National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 2 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike sighting in Taman Negara National Park on a given day, based on 53 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 172nd most-seen of the 293 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, June and August–September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike in Taman Negara National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April–May, July and October–February, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike 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 3
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike sightings, Taman Negara National Park ranks 2nd at under 5%. The best odds are in Way Kambas National Park (Indonesia, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike is recorded against all the birds logged in Taman Negara National Park (53 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.
