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Where does the Blue-spotted Wood-Dove live?

Turtur afer has 36,141 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1876 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove — Thomas Brown / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesColumbiformesColumbidaeTurtur

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 9,184
Nigeria 4,087
Ghana 4,042
Gambia 3,241
Kenya 2,743
Ethiopia 1,106
Tanzania 987
Cameroon 835
Zimbabwe 818
Rwanda 787
Guinea-Bissau 782
DR Congo 723
Malawi 711
Liberia 652
Congo 616
Zambia 589
Gabon 571
Benin 546
Côte d'Ivoire 539
Guinea 365
Senegal 351
Mozambique 329
Sierra Leone 300
South Africa 290
Angola 287
Equatorial Guinea 230
Central African Republic 183
Togo 182
Burundi 16
Burkina Faso 14
Mali 9
Eritrea 8
Chad 6
Niger 4
United States 3
Namibia 2
Sudan 2
South 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.