Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica, the brown-spotted locust, is a species of bird grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in the Afrotropics and Indomalaya. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 3 | Serengeti National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 5 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust sighting in Nairobi National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 18th most-seen of the 34 insects 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.
March–April, July, October and December–January
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust in Nairobi National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May–June, August–September and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown‐spotted Locust 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 4 parks where we can rate Brown‐spotted Locust sightings, Nairobi National Park has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania, about 10%) and Serengeti National Park (Tanzania, about 10%).
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Brown‐spotted Locust that you can see in Nairobi National Park (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Garden Locust (about 10%) and Morphacris fasciata (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown‐spotted Locust is recorded against all the insects logged in Nairobi National Park (7 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.
