Red-knobbed Coot
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Red-knobbed Coot

Fulica cristata

Overview

uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, Garden Route and Addo Elephant National Park are among the 18 atlas places where the Red-knobbed Coot is recorded. Its records concentrate most heavily in South Africa, Spain, and Kenya, with about 176,000 open records across 11 countries. This map follows where those records gather.

Because this bird is recorded in both hemispheres, the active seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months recorded there.

Records
175,681
Countries
11
Atlas places
18
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Red-knobbed Coot as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 158512 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Spain
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8025 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2975 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2309 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1294 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ethiopia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 953 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 622 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Morocco
    25 km zone · high confidence · 519 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 248 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Oman
    25 km zone · high confidence · 224 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Red-knobbed Coot