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Black-crowned Tchagra
Tchagra senegalus · Family Malaconotidae
Tchagra senegalus
Family Malaconotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 140,408
- Countries and territories with records
- 53
About this species
This species has 140,408 occurrence records from 53 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (56.2%), Kenya (6.2%), Nigeria (4.9%), Uganda (4.5%) and Zimbabwe (3.5%); together they account for 75.3% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tchagra senegalus combines the genus name Tchagra with the species epithet senegalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Tchagra; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tchagra australis, Tchagra tchagra and Tchagra jamesi.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 50 species of the family Malaconotidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Laniarius ferrugineus. Its record count is 4.3 times the family average (32,707). The family Malaconotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.