Tchagra australis
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In 3 days ~80% 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 |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra sighting in Ruaha National Park on a given day, based on 115 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 25th most-seen of the 276 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May and November
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Brown-crowned Tchagra in Ruaha National Park on a given day, against about 20% in June, the lowest month.
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.
Among the best
Of the 40 parks where we can rate Brown-crowned Tchagra sightings, Ruaha National Park ranks 2nd at about 50%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe, about 50%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown-crowned Tchagra is recorded against all the birds logged in Ruaha National Park (115 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.
