🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Northern Gray-headed Sparrow live?

Passer griseus has 80,648 records in 42 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesPasseridaePasser

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
Uganda 17,570
Nigeria 13,062
Kenya 7,617
Tanzania 6,784
Ghana 5,867
Gambia 5,724
Rwanda 5,072
Senegal 3,955
Zambia 3,081
Cameroon 1,691
DR Congo 1,378
Zimbabwe 791
Malawi 782
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 675
Namibia 608
Ethiopia 554
Liberia 523
Gabon 521
Benin 467
Congo 459
Botswana 365
Angola 336
Equatorial Guinea 324
Sierra Leone 283
Togo 248
Guinea-Bissau 244
Burkina Faso 238
Guinea 227
Chad 222
Mali 219
Niger 160
Burundi 141
Central African Republic 94
South Africa 78
Algeria 69
Mauritania 64
South Sudan 44
Mozambique 41
Eritrea 37
Sudan 27

Showing the top 40 of 42 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.