Cursorius temminckii
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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 →
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser sighting in Serengeti National Park on a given day, based on 324 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 148th most-seen of the 469 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Serengeti National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and December, the lowest months. That is one of Serengeti National Park's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain against 5 mm in July.
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.
2nd of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Serengeti National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya, about 20%).
Same family: Glareolidae
The closest relatives of the Temminck's Courser that you can see in Serengeti National Park (family Glareolidae, Pratincoles and Coursers) are Double-banded Courser (about 20%), Collared Pratincole (about 10%) and Three-banded Courser (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 Serengeti National Park (324 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.
