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Where does the Yellow-billed Stork live?

Mycteria ibis has 95,737 records in 61 countries and territories, from 1863 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Yellow-billed Stork
Yellow-billed Stork — Marcusajohn63 / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCiconiiformesCiconiidaeMycteria

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 35,177
Kenya 21,333
Tanzania 8,260
Botswana 6,178
Uganda 4,399
Zambia 3,295
Namibia 2,691
Zimbabwe 2,545
Rwanda 1,948
Ethiopia 1,879
Gambia 1,732
Mozambique 1,556
Senegal 1,402
Malawi 620
United Arab Emirates 325
Israel 322
Eswatini 272
DR Congo 259
Madagascar 194
Egypt 163
Angola 133
Gabon 129
Chad 120
Benin 104
Djibouti 97
Guinea-Bissau 95
Cameroon 86
Spain 71
Mauritania 59
Burundi 46
Sudan 38
Nigeria 20
Guinea 19
São Tomé & Príncipe 19
Congo 17
Netherlands 17
South Sudan 13
Belgium 10
Niger 8
Côte d'Ivoire 7

Showing the top 40 of 61 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.