Coccopygia quartinia
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The yellow-bellied waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) is a species of estrildid finch native to East Africa. The bird is now named yellow-bellied swee. It breeds in east central and south-eastern Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the swee waxbill.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volcanoes National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 2 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Aberdare National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Bale Mountains National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 5 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Arusha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 8 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 9 | Mkomazi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 11 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 12 | Lake Nakuru National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 13 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addis Ababa | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 2 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-bellied Waxbill sighting in Volcanoes National Park on a given day, based on 131 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 40th most-seen of the 156 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and October
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-bellied Waxbill in Volcanoes National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February–March and June, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-bellied Waxbill sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Yellow-bellied Waxbill sightings, Volcanoes National Park has the highest daily chance: about 30%. Next come Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda, about 20%) and Aberdare National Park (Kenya, about 20%).
Same family: Estrildidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-bellied Waxbill that you can see in Volcanoes National Park (family Estrildidae, Waxbills and Allies) are Red-billed Firefinch (about 40%), Black-crowned Waxbill (about 40%) and Kandt's Waxbill (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-bellied Waxbill is recorded against all the birds logged in Volcanoes National Park (131 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.
