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Where does the African Gray Hornbill live?

Lophoceros nasutus has 190,769 records in 41 countries and territories, from 1824 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

African Gray Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesBucerotiformesBucerotidaeLophoceros

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 92,629
Namibia 14,677
Kenya 10,400
Botswana 8,965
Nigeria 8,857
Zimbabwe 8,314
Tanzania 7,950
Uganda 7,846
Gambia 7,798
Zambia 5,237
Ghana 4,931
Senegal 3,791
Ethiopia 1,745
Benin 1,281
Malawi 995
Rwanda 917
Mozambique 859
Saudi Arabia 459
Eswatini 400
Burkina Faso 380
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 307
Cameroon 284
Guinea-Bissau 264
Guinea 252
Chad 204
Mali 170
Angola 140
Togo 133
DR Congo 108
Niger 101
South Sudan 81
Central African Republic 70
Mauritania 49
Sierra Leone 47
Yemen 44
Sudan 40
Somalia 19
Eritrea 17
Burundi 3
Greece 3

Showing the top 40 of 41 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.