Cursorius temminckii
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
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 →
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser sighting in Ngorongoro Conservation Area on a given day, based on 81 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 289th most-seen of the 519 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Ngorongoro Conservation Area on a given day, against under 5% in October and December–August, the lowest months.
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.
8th of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Ngorongoro Conservation Area ranks 8th at under 5%. 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%).
Same family: Glareolidae
The closest relatives of the Temminck's Courser that you can see in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (family Glareolidae, Pratincoles and Coursers) are Double-banded Courser (about 10%) and Collared Pratincole (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Temminck's Courser is recorded against all the birds logged in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (81 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.
