Birds of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso hosts 292 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
- Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
- Yellow-crowned GonolekLaniarius barbarus
- Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
- Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellus
- Yellow-billed ShrikeCorvinella corvina
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
- African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Double-spurred SpurfowlPternistis bicalcaratus
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Senegal ParrotPoicephalus senegalus
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
- Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
- African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
- Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- African SilverbillEuodice cantans
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Senegal EremomelaEremomela pusilla
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcher
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Purple StarlingLamprotornis purpureus
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Pygmy SunbirdHedydipna platura
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Brown BabblerTurdoides plebejus
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Little WeaverPloceus luteolus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
- Vitelline Masked WeaverPloceus vitellinus
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- White-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis albirostris
- Mourning Collared DoveStreptopelia decipiens
- Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
- Speckle-fronted WeaverSporopipes frontalis
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioides
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
- Northern Red BishopEuplectes franciscanus
- Purple RollerCoracias naevius
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Northern CrombecSylvietta brachyura
- Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectus
- Western Olivaceous WarblerIduna opaca
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Grasshopper BuzzardButastur rufipennis
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
- Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
- White-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra leucopygia
- African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Vieillot's BarbetLybius vieilloti
- Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotis
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosus
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- PiapiacPtilostomus afer
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
- Blackcap BabblerTurdoides reinwardtii
- Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureus
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
- Four-banded SandgrousePterocles quadricinctus
- Gosling's BuntingEmberiza goslingi
- Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjecta
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- African CuckooCuculus gularis
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglotta
- Allen's GallinulePorphyrio alleni
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Yellow-billed OxpeckerBuphagus africanus
- Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Pearl-spotted OwletGlaucidium perlatum
- Black Scrub RobinCercotrichas podobe
- Sahel Paradise WhydahVidua orientalis
- Cut-throat FinchAmadina fasciata
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser superciliosus
- Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- Lesser Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chloropterus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Bruce's Green PigeonTreron waalia
- Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
- Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- Senegal BatisBatis senegalensis
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
- White-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha albicapillus
- Black ScimitarbillRhinopomastus aterrimus
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Blue-bellied RollerCoracias cyanogaster
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
- Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus
- Egyptian PloverPluvianus aegyptius
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Olive-naped WeaverPloceus brachypterus
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Abyssinian Ground HornbillBucorvus abyssinicus
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Sun LarkGalerida modesta
- Heuglin's Masked WeaverPloceus heuglini
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Yellow-crowned BishopEuplectes afer
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- Plain NightjarCaprimulgus inornatus
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicauda
- Fine-spotted WoodpeckerCampethera punctuligera
- Neumann's StarlingOnychognathus neumanni
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandarius
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Chestnut-bellied SandgrousePterocles exustus
- Swamp FlycatcherMuscicapa aquatica
- Savile's BustardLophotis savilei
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- BrubruNilaus afer
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Bronze-tailed StarlingLamprotornis chalcurus
- Beaudouin's Snake EagleCircaetus beaudouini
- Pied-winged SwallowHirundo leucosoma
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Yellow-bellied EremomelaEremomela icteropygialis
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
- Fox KestrelFalco alopex
- Brown-backed WoodpeckerDendropicos obsoletus
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Scissor-tailed KiteChelictinia riocourii
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- Tawny EagleAquila rapax
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- Oriole WarblerHypergerus atriceps
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Brown-rumped BuntingEmberiza affinis
- Red-winged PytiliaPytilia phoenicoptera
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
- Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
- White-headed VultureTrigonoceps occipitalis
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckii
- Western Banded Snake EagleCircaetus cinerascens
- Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta rara
- West African SeedeaterCrithagra canicapilla
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor
- Short-toed Snake EagleCircaetus gallicus
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- Lesser JacanaMicroparra capensis
- Yellow-bellied HyliotaHyliota flavigaster
- Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Western Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus bonelli
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineus
- Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
- Sudan Golden SparrowPasser luteus
- Black CoucalCentropus grillii
- Sharpe's DrongoDicrurus sharpei
- Rufous CisticolaCisticola rufus
- Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvata
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Saddle-billed StorkEphippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Lappet-faced VultureTorgos tracheliotos
- Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
- Denham's BustardNeotis denhami
- Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
- Black-crowned Sparrow-LarkEremopterix nigriceps
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- Splendid SunbirdCinnyris coccinigastrus
- Yellow-spotted Bush SparrowGymnoris pyrgita
- Bronze-winged CourserRhinoptilus chalcopterus
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
- Red-footed FalconFalco vespertinus
- Brown-necked RavenCorvus ruficollis
- Singing Bush LarkMirafra javanica
- African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
- African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- White-bellied BustardEupodotis senegalensis
- Common ButtonquailTurnix sylvaticus
- Anteater ChatMyrmecocichla aethiops
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
- Crested LarkGalerida cristata
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- Ethiopian SwallowHirundo aethiopica
- Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macroura
- Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachys