What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Cricket Longtail been recorded?

Spiloptila clamans occurrence evidence comes from 15 records in 4 countries and territories, from 1960 to 2019. Most records come from Senegal.

Cricket Longtail
Cricket Longtail — Photo (display-sized rendition): Francesco Veronesi · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesCisticolidaeSpiloptila

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

15 records across 4 countries and territories, 1960–2019.

Spiloptila clamans · GBIF taxon key 9780994

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-24. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

3 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.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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 Cricket Longtail has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Cricket Longtail. 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
Senegal 7
Chad 6
Western Sahara 1
Kenya 1

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