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Where does the Rock Martin live?

Ptyonoprogne fuligula has 205,812 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1874 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Rock Martin
Rock Martin β€” Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesHirundinidaePtyonoprogne

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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 152,345
Namibia 19,817
Kenya 15,733
Tanzania 5,120
Uganda 2,348
Zimbabwe 1,896
Lesotho 1,689
Nigeria 1,687
Israel 1,249
Rwanda 891
Zambia 418
Ghana 355
Cameroon 341
Botswana 320
Ethiopia 307
Angola 292
Eswatini 292
Malawi 151
DR Congo 137
Mozambique 81
Senegal 77
United Arab Emirates 43
Egypt 22
Guinea 20
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 19
Jordan 19
Burundi 18
Mali 16
Niger 16
Togo 12
Congo 11
Liberia 11
Oman 11
Benin 9
Morocco 6
Saudi Arabia 6
Sierra Leone 5
Chad 5
Djibouti 4
Gabon 3

Showing the top 40 of 46 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.