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) [XC417650]
by Stanislas Wroza from do\u00f1ana visitable, sevilla, andaluc\u00eda, Spain (call, trumpet call)
Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica) [XC431996]
by Bernard BOUSQUET from \u00c1rea Metropolitana de Sevilla (near Isla Mayor), Sevilla, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (flight call)