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 Mikumi National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 160th most-seen of the 261 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.
July to October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Mikumi National Park on a given day, against under 5% in November to June, the lowest months. Those are among Mikumi National Park's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain a month against 200 mm in April.
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.
4th of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Mikumi National Park ranks 4th 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 Mikumi National Park (16 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.
