Curaeus curaeus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The austral blackbird (Curaeus curaeus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina and Chile, and it migrates to regions close by. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Its plumage is entirely black with a slight bluish hint, and its physical features consist of black legs, black eyes, and a sharp beak with missing pigmentation in the head, chest, and wings. Compared to other birds in its family, the Austral Blackbird has a highly varied voice, and they do a lot of singing and calling together.
Their main habitats are woodlands, forests, lakeshores, beaches, fields, valley bottoms, and rocky shores. It is commonly found in small flocks of 6 to 20 in and around the forest, and never in the open land. Can be commonly found in protected areas in national parks around Chile and Argentina. They are found in protected areas where the conditions support proper living and breeding.
They are typically drawn to nectar and like feeding on different kinds of flowers. When the bird feeds on these plants it will create a yellow color... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Austral Blackbird sighting in Tierra del Fuego National Park on a given day, based on 181 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 36th most-seen of the 78 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Austral Blackbird in Tierra del Fuego National Park on a given day, against about 10% in July–August and December–May, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Austral Blackbird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate Austral Blackbird sightings, Tierra del Fuego National Park ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Torres del Paine National Park (Chile, about 40%), Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (Chile, about 30%) and Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Austral Blackbird that you can see in Tierra del Fuego National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Patagonian Sierra-Finch (about 90%), Austral Thrush (about 90%) and Rufous-collared Sparrow (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Austral Blackbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Tierra del Fuego National Park (181 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.
