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Where does the Palm-nut Vulture live?

Gypohierax angolensis has 40,530 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1868 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Palm-nut Vulture
Palm-nut Vulture β€” Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland / CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeGypohierax

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
Uganda 10,970
Gambia 5,316
South Africa 4,451
Tanzania 3,358
Kenya 2,968
Ghana 2,276
Rwanda 1,448
Senegal 1,121
Gabon 1,069
DR Congo 998
Angola 855
Cameroon 709
Guinea-Bissau 585
Nigeria 577
Equatorial Guinea 510
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 499
Malawi 470
Congo 442
Mozambique 347
Zimbabwe 306
Liberia 304
Sierra Leone 300
Zambia 190
Guinea 146
Central African Republic 98
Benin 82
Burundi 69
Togo 45
Burkina Faso 7
Mali 5
Namibia 3
South Sudan 2
Botswana 1
Poland 1
Chad 1
ZZ 1

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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.