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Where does the Tambourine Dove live?

Turtur tympanistria has 80,413 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1847 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Tambourine Dove
Tambourine Dove — Alan Manson / CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
South Africa 41,617
Uganda 10,053
Kenya 9,183
Ghana 4,533
Tanzania 3,616
Nigeria 1,859
Zimbabwe 1,684
Eswatini 995
Rwanda 958
Mozambique 881
Ethiopia 820
Malawi 566
DR Congo 522
Equatorial Guinea 468
Côte d'Ivoire 421
Zambia 421
Liberia 350
Cameroon 345
Sierra Leone 228
Benin 188
Angola 187
Gabon 147
Congo 84
Mayotte 54
Central African Republic 45
Guinea 42
Comoros 41
Togo 28
Burundi 27
Guinea-Bissau 23
Somalia 9
South Sudan 5
Sudan 3
United States 3
Namibia 2
Oman 1
Senegal 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.