What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Senegal Coucal been recorded?

Centropus senegalensis occurrence evidence comes from 316 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1873 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Senegal Coucal
Senegal Coucal — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCuculiformesCuculidaeCentropus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

316 records across 21 countries and territories, 1873–2026.

Centropus senegalensis · GBIF taxon key 5231999

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: November.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18732026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Senegal Coucal has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Senegal Coucal. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Uganda 131
Senegal 53
Guinea 40
Ghana 24
Botswana 14
Zimbabwe 11
Côte d'Ivoire 8
Gambia 6
Cameroon 5
Namibia 5
Tanzania 4
Angola 3
Zambia 3
Malawi 2
Benin 1
Congo 1
Egypt 1
Guinea-Bissau 1
Liberia 1
Nigeria 1
South Africa 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.