🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Dideric Cuckoo live?

Chrysococcyx caprius has 184,813 records in 50 countries and territories, from 1865 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCuculiformesCuculidaeChrysococcyx

When it is recorded

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Peak month: December. 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
South Africa 137,970
Kenya 11,319
Uganda 5,953
Tanzania 5,094
Namibia 4,133
Nigeria 3,366
Zimbabwe 2,801
Ghana 2,430
Botswana 1,838
Eswatini 1,511
Zambia 1,251
Mozambique 1,142
DR Congo 525
Gambia 521
Ethiopia 518
Malawi 507
Benin 445
Senegal 428
Cameroon 371
Rwanda 314
Oman 280
Gabon 275
Congo 271
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 242
Burkina Faso 232
Liberia 156
Equatorial Guinea 133
Angola 123
Lesotho 109
Guinea-Bissau 107
Togo 98
Saudi Arabia 68
Guinea 61
Sierra Leone 44
Cyprus 28
Central African Republic 24
South Sudan 23
Mali 16
Mauritania 16
Burundi 12

Showing the top 40 of 50 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.