What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Yellow-billed Stork been recorded?

Mycteria ibis occurrence evidence comes from 390 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1863 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Yellow-billed Stork
Yellow-billed Stork — Photo (display-sized rendition): Marcusajohn63 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCiconiiformesCiconiidaeMycteria

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

390 records across 25 countries and territories, 1863–2026.

Mycteria ibis · GBIF taxon key 2481936

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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

18632026

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

Where Yellow-billed Stork has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Yellow-billed Stork. 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
Uganda 110
Kenya 71
South Africa 55
Namibia 35
Botswana 23
Senegal 16
Tanzania 14
Rwanda 12
Zambia 8
Benin 6
Austria 5
Ethiopia 5
United States 5
Gambia 4
Belgium 3
Burundi 3
Djibouti 3
Mozambique 3
Guinea-Bissau 2
São Tomé & Príncipe 2
Angola 1
Germany 1
Luxembourg 1
Malawi 1
ZZ 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.