Elaenia albiceps
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The white-crested elaenia (Elaenia albiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The white-crested elaenia was formally described in 1837 as Muscipeta albiceps by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye. They noted that the species occurred in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Yungas region in Bolivia and the Tacna region of Peru. In 1925 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr restricted the type locality to the Yungas region in Bolivia based on the provenance of the type species. The specific epithet albiceps combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with -ceps meaning "-headed". The white-crested elaenia is now placed in the genus Elaenia that was introduced in 1836 by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall.
Six subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 5 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 8 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 10 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 2 | Quito | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Arequipa | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 7 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 9 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia sighting in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park on a given day, based on 411 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 70 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and November–December
In those months about 90% of wildlife watchers report a White-crested Elaenia in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park on a given day, against about 20% in July and September, the lowest months. Those are among Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park's driest months, with about 150 mm of rain a month against 490 mm in June.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-crested Elaenia 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 10
Of the 10 parks where we can rate White-crested Elaenia sightings, Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park ranks 2nd at about 60%. The best odds are in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Argentina, about 70%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Tyrannidae
The closest relatives of the White-crested Elaenia that you can see in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (family Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers) are Tufted Tit-Tyrant (about 60%), Fire-eyed Diucon (about 50%) and Patagonian Tyrant (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-crested Elaenia is recorded against all the birds logged in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (411 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.
