What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Black Scrub-Robin been recorded?

Cercotrichas podobe occurrence evidence comes from 30 records in 5 countries and territories, from 1919 to 2023. Most records come from Senegal.

Black Scrub-Robin
Black Scrub-Robin — Photo (display-sized rendition): jujurenoult · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesMuscicapidaeCercotrichas

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

30 records across 5 countries and territories, 1919–2023.

Cercotrichas podobe · GBIF taxon key 2492476

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

5 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: January. 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

19192023

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

Where Black Scrub-Robin has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Black Scrub-Robin. 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
Senegal 24
Chad 3
Egypt 1
Israel 1
Somalia 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records concentrated in part of the year. 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.