Cursorius temminckii
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In 3 days ~10%
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 Tsavo West National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 313th most-seen of the 380 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Tsavo West National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to June, the lowest months. That is one of Tsavo West National Park's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain against 140 mm in November.
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.
19th of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Tsavo West National Park ranks 19th 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%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Temminck's Courser is recorded against all the birds logged in Tsavo West National Park (14 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.
