Turdoides hartlaubii
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Hartlaub's babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii) or the Angola babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, which is native to south central Africa. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.
The species is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DRC, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Hartlaub's babbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moremi Game Reserve | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 2 | Kafue National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 3 | Chobe National Park | 🇧🇼 Botswana |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lubango | 🇦🇴 Angola |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Hartlaub's Babbler sighting in Lubango on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 7th most-seen of the 35 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Hartlaub's Babbler in Lubango on a given day, against about 10% in January–February and August, the lowest months. That is one of Lubango's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain against 210 mm in March. April–June and November–December have too few records to rate.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hartlaub's Babbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lubango, in our data
Lubango is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Hartlaub's Babbler sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Hartlaub's Babbler that you can see in Lubango (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Pied Crow (about 40%), Common Bulbul (about 30%) and Blue-breasted Cordonbleu (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hartlaub's Babbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Lubango (19 verified sightings), 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.
