Tchagra australis
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
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 |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra sighting in Lake Manyara National Park on a given day, based on 80 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 55th most-seen of the 307 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.
April
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra in Lake Manyara National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January and July–October, the lowest months. That is one of Lake Manyara National Park's wettest months, with about 260 mm of rain against 15 mm in September.
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.
12th of 40
Of the 40 parks where we can rate Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings, Lake Manyara National Park ranks 12th at about 20%. 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.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-crowned Tchagra is recorded against all the birds logged in Lake Manyara National Park (80 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.
