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Where does the Bronze mannikin live?

Lonchura cucullata has 236,098 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1875 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Bronze mannikin
Bronze mannikin — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesEstrildidaeLonchura

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 122,003
Kenya 19,257
Uganda 14,248
Puerto Rico 10,821
Zimbabwe 9,649
Nigeria 8,944
Ghana 6,643
Tanzania 6,420
Gambia 6,003
Zambia 4,431
Mozambique 3,975
Rwanda 3,629
Eswatini 2,986
Ethiopia 2,092
Malawi 1,857
DR Congo 1,289
Cameroon 1,226
United States 1,192
Senegal 1,063
Côte d'Ivoire 819
Gabon 806
Benin 804
Angola 737
São Tomé & Príncipe 596
Liberia 582
Namibia 500
Equatorial Guinea 472
Guinea-Bissau 370
Congo 369
Togo 365
Guinea 335
Botswana 305
Burkina Faso 269
Sierra Leone 258
Mali 124
Chad 118
Burundi 109
Singapore 103
Central African Republic 102
Mayotte 99

Showing the top 40 of 49 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.