🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the African Green-Pigeon live?

Treron calvus has 102,005 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1862 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

African Green-Pigeon
African Green-Pigeon — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeTreron

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 51,337
Uganda 8,324
Kenya 7,256
Ghana 6,445
Botswana 3,768
Tanzania 3,582
Zambia 2,515
Zimbabwe 2,088
Nigeria 1,944
Namibia 1,880
Gambia 1,488
Eswatini 1,322
DR Congo 1,226
Mozambique 1,146
Côte d'Ivoire 1,010
Cameroon 905
Rwanda 785
Equatorial Guinea 654
Gabon 652
Liberia 441
Malawi 427
Angola 423
Guinea-Bissau 413
Congo 357
São Tomé & Príncipe 336
Benin 284
Senegal 262
Guinea 190
Sierra Leone 163
Central African Republic 159
Togo 123
Ethiopia 45
Burkina Faso 19
South Sudan 12
Burundi 9
Niger 5
Mali 3
United States 2
Greece 1
Sudan 1

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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.