Vagrant to Burundi, France, Italy, Malta, Oman, Portugal, Somalia, United Arab Emirates.
Southern Spain and northern Morocco; Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda southern through Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Zaire and Tanzania, west to Angola and south to South Africa; also Madagascar.
 
Population
Estimated population is 110,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).
Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata) [XC513967]
by Dawie de Swardt from S'Albufera NP, Mallorca, Spain (begging call)
Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata) [XC195721]
by Jos\u00e9 Carlos Sires from Green Point Park, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (call, adult contact call with chicks)