Campephaga flava
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The black cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava) is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. The species is closely related to Petit's cuckooshrike and the red-shouldered cuckooshrike, and forms a superspecies with them. It is also known as the African black cuckooshrike.
It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Black Cuckooshrike - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Wikipedia →
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black Cuckoo-shrike sighting in Nairobi National Park on a given day, based on 267 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 145th most-seen of the 371 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black Cuckoo-shrike in Nairobi National Park on a given day, against about 10% in September and December–April, the lowest months. That is one of Nairobi National Park's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 180 mm in April.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black Cuckoo-shrike sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 41
Of the 41 parks where we can rate Black Cuckoo-shrike sightings, Nairobi National Park ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Arusha National Park (Tanzania, about 30%) and uMkhuze Game Reserve (South Africa, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Black Cuckoo-shrike that you can see in Nairobi National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Common Bulbul (about 70%), Superb Starling (about 60%) and Variable Sunbird (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black Cuckoo-shrike is recorded against all the birds logged in Nairobi National Park (267 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.
