Tchagra australis
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
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 Pretoria on a given day, based on 55 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 74th most-seen of the 177 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra in Pretoria on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
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.
Among the best
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings, Pretoria ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Yaoundé (Cameroon, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-crowned Tchagra is recorded against all the birds logged in Pretoria (55 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.
