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Where does the African Pied Wagtail live?

Motacilla aguimp has 188,038 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

African Pied Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeMotacilla

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 77,416
Kenya 43,625
Uganda 15,472
Tanzania 12,085
Zambia 8,134
Zimbabwe 6,782
Rwanda 3,781
Ghana 3,342
Namibia 3,207
Botswana 2,731
Malawi 2,375
Eswatini 2,077
DR Congo 1,895
Mozambique 1,114
Ethiopia 792
Nigeria 775
Senegal 600
Gabon 282
Egypt 198
Angola 196
Cameroon 193
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 180
Congo 129
Burundi 106
Benin 94
Sierra Leone 91
Central African Republic 83
Togo 71
Liberia 47
South Sudan 37
Lesotho 28
Sudan 23
Niger 16
Mali 12
Guinea 11
Equatorial Guinea 11
Somalia 9
Guinea-Bissau 4
Singapore 4
Burkina Faso 3

Showing the top 40 of 44 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.