What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Peters's Twinspot been recorded?

Hypargos niveoguttatus occurrence evidence comes from 310 records in 9 countries and territories, from 1898 to 2024. Most records come from Kenya.

AvesPasseriformesEstrildidaeHypargos

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

310 records across 9 countries and territories, 1898–2024.

Hypargos niveoguttatus · GBIF taxon key 2493646

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: June. 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

18982024

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

Where Peters's Twinspot has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Peters's Twinspot. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Kenya 99
Malawi 90
Tanzania 62
Mozambique 25
Zimbabwe 15
Zambia 14
Canada 2
Somalia 2
DR Congo 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.