Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

The great kiskadee is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genus Pitangus. It breeds in open woodland with some tall trees, including cultivation and around human habitation. It is found from the extreme southern United States south to Argentina. It was introduced to Bermuda in 1957, and to Tobago in about 1970. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 475,206 times across 31 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 32°C (typically 30 to 32°C, from 5 areas). That holds across 45° of latitude, which suggests its timing follows temperature more than the calendar.

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in South America ranged from 22°S in March to 3°N in November, about 2,700 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.