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 Virunga National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 218th most-seen of the 316 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.
May and June
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Temminck's Courser in Virunga National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July to April, 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.
10th of 25
Of the 25 parks where we can rate Temminck's Courser sightings, Virunga National Park ranks 10th 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 Virunga 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.
