Tchagra australis
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
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 30% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra sighting in Nairobi National Park on a given day, based on 412 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 97th most-seen of the 371 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra in Nairobi National Park on a given day, against about 20% in July, September–October and December–February, the lowest months. That is one of Nairobi National Park's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain against 180 mm in April.
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.
6th of 40
Of the 40 parks where we can rate Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings, Nairobi National Park ranks 6th at about 30%. 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.
Same family: Malaconotidae
The closest relatives of the Brown-crowned Tchagra that you can see in Nairobi National Park (family Malaconotidae, Bushshrikes and Allies) are Tropical Boubou (about 40%), Slate-colored Boubou (about 40%) and Black-backed Puffback (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-crowned Tchagra is recorded against all the birds logged in Nairobi National Park (412 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.
