eBird & Macaulay Library · East Africa

Tanzania

Bird photos, sound recordings and videos from Tanzania in eBird's Macaulay Library, week by week.

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East Africa eBird country archives

Tanzania, week of 1 Nov 2026

25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week

The archive gained 1,027 photos, sounds and videos from Tanzania in the week, 21% of East Africa's total. Of the 1,027 items added, 465 were photographed or recorded in the 30 days before.

Net change in media

+1,027

Week before: +1,415

Photos

+778

Week before: +1,134

Sounds

+234

Week before: +274

Videos

+15

Week before: +7

New species

Week before: 0

Who added the most (12)

New sound recordings from Tanzania, by person

#	Contributor	Sounds added
1	Martin Tlustos16 species	+54
2	David Moyer32 species	+46
3	Andrew Spencer25 species	+38
4	Tamara Schoch12 species	+35
5	Reuben Shallom16 species	+30

A name opens that person's newest uploads on eBird.

1–5 of 12 recordists

New species (4)

First photo, sound or video from Tanzania

Species	Media added
Hadada Ibis (Eastern)Bostrychia hagedash erlangeri/nilotica	+11 sound
Lemon Dove (Lemon)Aplopelia larvata larvata/bronzina	+11 sound
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata	+55 photos
Little SwiftApus affinis	+11 photo

The archive held nothing of these from Tanzania before this week. Subspecies and hybrids are listed as their own entries. A name opens the newest media from there on eBird.

Week by week (9)

Net change for Tanzania in each week on record

Week of	Media	Photos	Sounds	Videos
Showing	+1,027	+778	+234	+15
	+1,415	+1,134	+274	+7
	+1,490	+1,210	+279	+1
	+876	+803	+72	+1
	+1,740	+1,507	+229	+4
	+858	+752	+106	0
	+438	+370	+68	0
	+923	+821	+88	+14

1–8 of 9 weeks

All time

Everything in the archive from Tanzania up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.

Media in the archive

289,452

#2 of 9 in East Africa

Photos

273,367

94.4% of the archive

Sound recordings

13,975

30.3% of East Africa's sounds

Videos

2,110

0.7% of the archive

Species with media

1,396

Birds and bats

Species counts on this page include subspecies, forms, hybrids and unidentified entries such as "gull sp." as separate entries, so they are higher than the true number of species. We are correcting this.

Media archive over time

Cumulative catalog metadata by observation year

Tanzania

Earliest dated record from 1957. Busiest completed year: 2025 (58,825 media).

Top sound recordists of all time (20)

Most sound recordings from Tanzania in the archive

#	Contributor	Sounds
1	David Moyer479 species	2,240
2	Martin Tlustos106 species	1,890
3	H. H. van de Rijt-Plooij0 species	1,820
4	Reuben Shallom325 species	1,760
5	Peter Boesman255 species	684

A name opens that person's newest sound recordings on eBird.

1–5 of 20 recordists

eBird & Macaulay Library · collected 1 Nov 2026 · 289,452 media from Tanzania

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