Tchagra australis
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The brown-crowned tchagra (Tchagra australis) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Eswatini, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry savanna. Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yaoundé | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | |
| 2 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 5 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 6 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 7 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra sighting in Amboseli National Park on a given day, based on 56 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 194th most-seen of the 362 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August, October and December–April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra in Amboseli National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–July, September and November, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
34th of 40
Of the 40 parks where we can rate Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings, Amboseli National Park ranks 34th at about 10%. The best odds are in Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe, about 50%), Ruaha National Park (Tanzania, about 50%) and uMkhuze Game Reserve (South Africa, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Malaconotidae
The closest relatives of the Brown-crowned Tchagra that you can see in Amboseli National Park (family Malaconotidae, Bushshrikes and Allies) are Slate-colored Boubou (about 20%), Rosy-patched Bushshrike (about 10%) and Brubru (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-crowned Tchagra is recorded against all the birds logged in Amboseli National Park (56 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
