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Where does the African Fish-Eagle live?

Haliaeetus vocifer has 251,738 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1853 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

African Fish-Eagle
African Fish-Eagle β€” Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa / CC BY 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeHaliaeetus

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
South Africa 151,023
Kenya 25,411
Botswana 13,639
Uganda 12,709
Zimbabwe 8,127
Tanzania 8,021
Zambia 7,934
Namibia 6,243
Ethiopia 4,228
Senegal 2,752
Rwanda 1,921
Mozambique 1,850
Malawi 1,658
Gambia 1,638
Eswatini 1,082
DR Congo 930
Benin 400
Angola 357
Gabon 300
Ghana 292
Congo 234
Chad 166
Guinea-Bissau 147
Cameroon 134
Nigeria 93
Mauritania 85
South Sudan 80
Niger 55
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 31
Burkina Faso 25
Belgium 23
Guinea 21
Equatorial Guinea 21
Sudan 18
Sierra Leone 18
Central African Republic 17
Lesotho 17
Burundi 13
Somalia 6
Liberia 5

Showing the top 40 of 45 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.