Cyligramma latona
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Cyligramma latona, the cream-striped owl, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gonarezhou National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 2 | Gorongosa National Park | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | |
| 3 | Hwange National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 4 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 5 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Pilanesberg National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 9 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 10 | Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 11 | Etosha National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 12 | Moremi Game Reserve | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 13 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 14 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 15 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 16 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Addis Ababa | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 4 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 5 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 8 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Creamstriped Owl sighting in Nairobi on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 69th most-seen of the 123 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and June
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Creamstriped Owl in Nairobi on a given day, against under 5% in March, May, July and September–December, the lowest months. Those are among Nairobi's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in April.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Creamstriped Owl sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
5th of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Creamstriped Owl sightings, Nairobi ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Pretoria (South Africa, about 30%), Johannesburg (South Africa, about 30%) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia, about 20%).
Same family: Erebidae
The closest relatives of the Creamstriped Owl that you can see in Nairobi (family Erebidae, Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths) are Sundowner Moth (about 10%), Walker's Owl (about 10%) and Small Cloth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Creamstriped Owl is recorded against all the insects logged in Nairobi (8 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.
