Cursorius temminckii
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.
This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Temminck's courser - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser sighting in Gonarezhou National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 187th most-seen of the 233 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Gonarezhou National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, July–August and November, the lowest months. Those are among Gonarezhou National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in January. March–April, June and December–January have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Temminck's Courser sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Gonarezhou National Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya, about 20%), Serengeti National Park (Tanzania, about 10%) and Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Temminck's Courser is recorded against all the birds logged in Gonarezhou National Park (13 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.
