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Where does the Black-winged Bishop live?

Euplectes hordeaceus has 14,290 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1854 to 2026. Most records come from Ghana.

Black-winged Bishop
Black-winged Bishop — Photo: Nigel Voaden from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesPloceidaeEuplectes

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

18542026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Ghana 2,370
Uganda 1,773
Tanzania 1,536
Gambia 1,456
Nigeria 1,412
Kenya 799
Malawi 654
Zambia 596
Mozambique 547
Ethiopia 500
DR Congo 483
Zimbabwe 307
Benin 278
São Tomé & Príncipe 278
Cameroon 203
Angola 194
Senegal 150
Côte d'Ivoire 138
Guinea 123
Sierra Leone 75
Guinea-Bissau 61
Gabon 54
Rwanda 47
Togo 41
Burkina Faso 34
Liberia 31
Congo 24
South Sudan 21
Central African Republic 18
Qatar 15
Burundi 14
Mali 11
United Arab Emirates 10
Singapore 10
Sudan 6
United States 5
South Africa 4
Guadeloupe 3
Kuwait 3
France 1

Showing the top 40 of 45 places.

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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.