Cursorius temminckii
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
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 →
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser sighting in Masai Mara National Reserve on a given day, based on 638 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 398 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.
February–March, May and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Masai Mara National Reserve on a given day, against about 10% in July, the lowest month.
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.
Yes
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Masai Mara National Reserve has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come 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 Masai Mara National Reserve (638 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.
