๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Southern Red Bishop live?

Euplectes orix has 386,317 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1864 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Southern Red Bishop
Southern Red Bishop โ€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesPloceidaeEuplectes

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 357,386
Zimbabwe 6,957
Namibia 4,352
Tanzania 2,893
Uganda 2,408
Zambia 2,136
Botswana 1,931
Eswatini 1,542
Mozambique 1,529
Kenya 1,067
United Arab Emirates 1,062
Malawi 946
Rwanda 877
Lesotho 585
DR Congo 155
Angola 88
Burundi 83
Ethiopia 48
Spain 33
Sudan 28
Kuwait 22
United States 21
Bahrain 20
Ghana 17
Senegal 16
Benin 15
Hong Kong 14
Portugal 14
Qatar 12
Singapore 9
Australia 8
Belgium 5
Canada 4
Guadeloupe 3
Oman 3
Somalia 3
Taiwan 3
ZZ 3
Cameroon 2
France 2

Showing the top 40 of 53 places.

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