What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Lizard Buzzard been recorded?

Kaupifalco monogrammicus occurrence evidence comes from 642 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1878 to 2025. Most records come from Kenya.

Lizard Buzzard
Lizard Buzzard — Photo (display-sized rendition): https://www.flickr.com/photos/francesco_veronesi/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeKaupifalco

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

642 records across 21 countries and territories, 1878–2025.

Kaupifalco monogrammicus · GBIF taxon key 2480440

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

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.

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When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

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.

Records over time

18782025

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

Where Lizard Buzzard has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Lizard Buzzard. 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 410
Uganda 91
Guinea 40
Senegal 14
Zimbabwe 14
Tanzania 12
South Africa 11
Malawi 10
Mozambique 10
Angola 8
Gambia 4
Côte d'Ivoire 3
Ghana 3
DR Congo 2
Central African Republic 2
Namibia 2
Rwanda 2
Botswana 1
Sudan 1
Sierra Leone 1
Togo 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.