African Grey Hornbill in Okavango Delta

Lophoceros nasutus

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Okavango Delta, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in July, September and November. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
11
Records
3,926
Cell size
25 km
Years covered
1981 to 2026

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 11 squares of 25 km carry records for African Grey Hornbill in and around Okavango Delta, and the 3,926 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the African Grey Hornbill

Kruger National Park, the Okavango Delta and Etosha National Park are among the 29 atlas places where the African Grey Hornbill is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, and the map shows where these sightings gather most thickly. The atlas holds about 117,000 records of this bird across 18 countries, including Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Of the 62 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Okavango Delta, the African Grey Hornbill is the 7th most recorded.

The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded