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Where does the Yellow-crowned Gonolek live?

Laniarius barbarus has 24,800 records in 26 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2026. Most records come from Gambia.

Yellow-crowned Gonolek
Yellow-crowned Gonolek β€” Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland / CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMalaconotidaeLaniarius

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
Gambia 7,361
Nigeria 6,893
Senegal 4,642
Ghana 3,308
Burkina Faso 756
Guinea-Bissau 496
Benin 471
Mali 234
Togo 153
Guinea 90
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 76
Niger 76
Cameroon 58
DR Congo 41
Mauritania 34
Kenya 30
Sudan 30
Uganda 19
Rwanda 14
Sierra Leone 6
South Sudan 3
United Arab Emirates 2
Tanzania 2
Congo 1
Eritrea 1
Ethiopia 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.