Xeno-canto · East Africa
Tanzania
Wildlife sound recordings from Tanzania on Xeno-canto, week by week.
Updated every SundayCounts recordings, not animals
Tanzania, week of 1 Nov 2026
25 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · the latest week
The archive gained 36 recordings from Tanzania in the week, 73% of East Africa's total.
Net change in recordings
+36
Week before: +2
New species
+5
First recording from Tanzania
Unidentified sounds
-3
Week before: -4
Who added the most (3+)
New recordings from Tanzania, by recordist
| Contributor | Sounds added |
|---|---|
| Ardgard Mwamgeni1 species | +23 |
| Yusuph Wilangali9 species | +11 |
| Kileo Jumah2 species | +2 |
A name opens that recordist's sounds on Xeno-canto.
New species (5)
First recording from Tanzania
| Species | Sounds added |
|---|---|
| Galam white-lipped frogHylarana galamensis | +2New to East Africa |
| Callulina kreffti | +1New to East Africa |
| Eastern puddle frogPhrynobatrachus acridoides | +1New to East Africa |
| Tinker Reed FrogHyperolius tuberilinguis | +1New to East Africa |
| Guttural ToadSclerophrys gutturalis | +1 |
The archive held no recording of these species from Tanzania before this week. A name opens the species' recordings from there on Xeno-canto.
Week by week (11)
Net change for Tanzania in each week on record
| Week of | Recordings | New species |
|---|---|---|
| Showing | +36 | +5 |
| +2 | — | |
| +25 | +12 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| +11 | +6 | |
| +1 | 0 | |
| +22 | +2 | |
| +1 | 0 |
1–8 of 11 weeks
All time
Everything in the archive from Tanzania up to 1 Nov 2026. These figures stay the same whichever week is chosen above.
Recordings in the archive
8,975
#2 of 9 in East Africa
Species
693
Across all wildlife groups
Unidentified sounds
30
Share of East Africa
31.8%
Of 28,193 recordings
Cumulative archive growth
Field dates from 2000 onward.
Top recordists of all time (10)
Most recordings from Tanzania in the archive
| Contributor | Sounds |
|---|---|
| Louis A. Hansen191 species | 3,882 |
| Isaac Kilusu347 species | 1,001 |
| Frank Lambert281 species | 815 |
| Peter Boesman254 species | 641 |
| Bernard BOUSQUET147 species | 386 |
A name opens that recordist's sounds on Xeno-canto.
1–5 of 10 recordists
Sound recordings by group
Distribution across cataloged wildlife groups.
- bats10.0%
- birds8,80698.1%
- frogs690.8%
- grasshoppers30.0%
- land mammals150.2%
- soundscapes00.0%
- unknown810.9%
Top places (5)
Places in Tanzania with the most recordings
Xeno-canto · collected 1 Nov 2026 · 8,975 recordings from Tanzania
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