Birds of Burundi
Burundi hosts 242 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- White-browed Robin-ChatCossypha heuglini
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Tropical BoubouLaniarius major
- Chubb's CisticolaCisticola chubbi
- African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
- Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Northern FiscalLanius humeralis
- Rüppell's StarlingLamprotornis purpuroptera
- Mountain Masked ApalisApalis personata
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- Yellow-streaked GreenbulPhyllastrephus flavostriatus
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Rwenzori ApalisOreolais ruwenzorii
- Grey-backed FiscalLanius excubitoroides
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Green White-eyeZosterops stuhlmanni
- Mountain OrioleOriolus percivali
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Regal SunbirdCinnyris regius
- Black-throated ApalisApalis jacksoni
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Chestnut-throated ApalisApalis porphyrolaema
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Holub's Golden WeaverPloceus xanthops
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Mountain Sooty BoubouLaniarius poensis
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Black-billed TuracoTauraco schuettii
- Barred Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx montanus
- White-browed CoucalCentropus superciliosus
- Angola SwallowHirundo angolensis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Rwenzori Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris stuhlmanni
- Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
- Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
- Bronze SunbirdNectarinia kilimensis
- Banded PriniaPrinia bairdii
- African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
- Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
- Blue-headed SunbirdCyanomitra alinae
- Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
- Doherty's BushshrikeTelophorus dohertyi
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- Streaky SeedeaterCrithagra striolata
- Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- African SkimmerRynchops flavirostris
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularis
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- Swamp FlycatcherMuscicapa aquatica
- Kikuyu Mountain GreenbulArizelocichla kikuyuensis
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- Mountain BuzzardButeo oreophilus
- Southern Red BishopEuplectes orix
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Black-crowned WaxbillEstrilda nonnula
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- Abyssinian ThrushTurdus abyssinicus
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- Blue-headed CoucalCentropus monachus
- Red-faced Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus laetus
- Rwenzori BatisBatis diops
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- White-necked RavenCorvus albicollis
- Mackinnon's ShrikeLanius mackinnoni
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaterMerops oreobates
- Grey-chested BabblerKakamega poliothorax
- Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
- Grey-capped WarblerEminia lepida
- Pink-backed PelicanPelecanus rufescens
- Western CitrilCrithagra frontalis
- Waller's StarlingOnychognathus walleri
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- White-headed Wood HoopoePhoeniculus bollei
- Strange WeaverPloceus alienus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
- Arrow-marked BabblerTurdoides jardineii
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Crowned HornbillLophoceros alboterminatus
- White-headed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne albiceps
- Hartlaub's BabblerTurdoides hartlaubii
- Slender-billed WeaverPloceus pelzelni
- Cinnamon Bracken WarblerBradypterus cinnamomeus
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- Red-necked SpurfowlPternistis afer
- Black-and-white-casqued HornbillBycanistes subcylindricus
- Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- Yellow BishopEuplectes capensis
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- White-tailed Blue FlycatcherElminia albicauda
- Black-faced Rufous WarblerBathmocercus rufus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Red-chested SunbirdCinnyris erythrocercus
- Lühder's BushshrikeLaniarius luehderi
- Purple-breasted SunbirdNectarinia purpureiventris
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Chinspot BatisBatis molitor
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Collared Palm ThrushCichladusa arquata
- Grey ApalisApalis cinerea
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus
- African Marsh HarrierCircus ranivorus
- White-browed CrombecSylvietta leucophrys
- Red-throated AletheChamaetylas poliophrys
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- White-tailed Crested FlycatcherElminia albonotata
- Mountain Yellow WarblerIduna similis
- Grauer's WarblerGraueria vittata
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus
- Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
- White-chinned PriniaSchistolais leucopogon
- Dusky CrimsonwingCryptospiza jacksoni
- Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata
- Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- White-starred RobinPogonocichla stellata
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Equatorial AkalatSheppardia aequatorialis
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Olive WoodpeckerDendropicos griseocephalus
- Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
- Black-lored BabblerTurdoides sharpei
- Yellow-bellied WaxbillCoccopygia quartinia
- Bar-tailed TrogonApaloderma vittatum
- Chirping CisticolaCisticola pipiens
- Slender-billed StarlingOnychognathus tenuirostris
- Mountain IlladopsisIlladopsis pyrrhoptera
- Miombo Rock ThrushMonticola angolensis
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
- Grey Crowned CraneBalearica regulorum
- Blue-billed TealSpatula hottentota
- Olive-bellied SunbirdCinnyris chloropygius
- Yellow-eyed Black FlycatcherMelaenornis ardesiacus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Lesser Swamp WarblerAcrocephalus gracilirostris
- Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus
- Wattled StarlingCreatophora cinerea
- Brimstone CanaryCrithagra sulphurata
- Black CuckooshrikeCampephaga flava
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowi
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Fawn-breasted WaxbillEstrilda paludicola
- Abyssinian Ground ThrushGeokichla piaggiae
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
- Golden-tailed WoodpeckerCampethera abingoni
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- African Black DuckAnas sparsa
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Augur BuzzardButeo augur
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
- Cassin's Hawk-EagleAquila africana
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Icterine WarblerHippolais icterina
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata
- European RollerCoracias garrulus
- Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Malachite SunbirdNectarinia famosa
- Lesser Grey ShrikeLanius minor
- Isabelline ShrikeLanius isabellinus
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- Black-headed GonolekLaniarius erythrogaster
- Blue-mantled Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus cyanomelas
- Mountain WagtailMotacilla clara
- African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- Black-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira peltata
- Crimson-rumped WaxbillEstrilda rhodopyga
- Thick-billed SeedeaterCrithagra burtoni
- Yellow-crowned CanarySerinus flavivertex
- Red-faced CrimsonwingCryptospiza reichenovii