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Where does the Senegal Coucal live?

Centropus senegalensis has 54,609 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from Nigeria.

Senegal Coucal
Senegal Coucal — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCuculiformesCuculidaeCentropus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Nigeria 12,908
Gambia 8,229
Ghana 5,849
Zimbabwe 4,884
Senegal 4,849
Botswana 2,780
Zambia 2,328
Uganda 1,903
Namibia 1,724
Benin 1,632
Côte d'Ivoire 807
Guinea-Bissau 687
Burkina Faso 629
Liberia 617
Cameroon 553
South Africa 465
Guinea 386
Togo 368
Congo 354
DR Congo 330
Malawi 288
Mali 252
Gabon 251
Sierra Leone 240
Chad 233
Kenya 150
Egypt 138
Tanzania 121
Angola 110
Niger 105
Mozambique 98
Central African Republic 93
Ethiopia 93
Mauritania 67
South Sudan 65
Sudan 18
Rwanda 3
Greece 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.