Birds of the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic hosts 418 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Grey ParrotPsittacus erithacus
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
- Olive-bellied SunbirdCinnyris chloropygius
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- White-thighed HornbillBycanistes albotibialis
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeri
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Green CrombecSylvietta virens
- Green HyliaHylia prasina
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Little GreenbulEurillas virens
- Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- Square-tailed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne nitens
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
- Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Sooty ChatMyrmecocichla nigra
- Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Vieillot's Black WeaverPloceus nigerrimus
- Black-casqued HornbillCeratogymna atrata
- Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
- Yellow-browed CamaropteraCamaroptera superciliaris
- Guinea TuracoTauraco persa
- Hartlaub's DuckPteronetta hartlaubii
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Chestnut Wattle-eyeDyaphorophyia castanea
- Heuglin's SpurfowlPternistis icterorhynchus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
- Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
- Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Brown IlladopsisIlladopsis fulvescens
- Chestnut-breasted NigritaNigrita bicolor
- Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolor
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Fire-crested AletheAlethe castanea
- Gosling's ApalisApalis goslingi
- Lowland Sooty BoubouLaniarius leucorhynchus
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Grasshopper BuzzardButastur rufipennis
- Little Grey GreenbulEurillas gracilis
- Yellow-eyed BristlebillBleda ugandae
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
- Spotted GreenbulIxonotus guttatus
- Sabine's SpinetailRhaphidura sabini
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Western NicatorNicator chloris
- Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulator
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Red-tailed BristlebillBleda syndactylus
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
- Buff-throated ApalisApalis rufogularis
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
- Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus
- Superb SunbirdCinnyris superbus
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Cassin's SpinetailNeafrapus cassini
- Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
- Afep PigeonColumba unicincta
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- Denham's BustardNeotis denhami
- Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badia
- Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabini
- Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
- Fraser's Rufous ThrushStizorhina fraseri
- Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macroura
- Purple-headed StarlingHylopsar purpureiceps
- Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullus
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Sun LarkGalerida modesta
- Red-eyed PuffbackDryoscopus senegalensis
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- Tropical BoubouLaniarius major
- Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioides
- Black-and-white-casqued HornbillBycanistes subcylindricus
- Brown BabblerTurdoides plebejus
- Western BluebillSpermophaga haematina
- Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta rara
- Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjecta
- Yellow-throated NicatorNicator vireo
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- White-spotted FlufftailSarothrura pulchra
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Splendid SunbirdCinnyris coccinigastrus
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureus
- Banded PriniaPrinia bairdii
- White-throated GreenbulPhyllastrephus albigularis
- White-crested TuracoTauraco leucolophus
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicauda
- Blue-throated Brown SunbirdCyanomitra cyanolaema
- Western Black-headed BatisBatis erlangeri
- Green-backed EremomelaEremomela canescens
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
- Red-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus atroflavus
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Cassin's FlycatcherMuscicapa cassini
- Blackcap IlladopsisIlladopsis cleaveri
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
- Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
- Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens
- Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvata
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- Olive-green CamaropteraCamaroptera chloronota
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
- Red-tailed GreenbulCriniger calurus
- Green-backed WoodpeckerCampethera maculosa
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
- Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosus
- Fawn-breasted WaxbillEstrilda paludicola
- Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
- White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
- White-breasted NigritaNigrita fusconotus
- Honeyguide GreenbulBaeopogon indicator
- Red-billed Dwarf HornbillLophoceros camurus
- Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachys
- Xavier's GreenbulPhyllastrephus xavieri
- Brown TwinspotClytospiza monteiri
- Yellow-throated CuckooChrysococcyx flavigularis
- Spot-breasted IbisBostrychia rara
- Dybowski's TwinspotEuschistospiza dybowskii
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- Abyssinian Ground HornbillBucorvus abyssinicus
- Red-headed LovebirdAgapornis pullarius
- Fraser's Forest FlycatcherFraseria ocreata
- Brown-backed WoodpeckerDendropicos obsoletus
- Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Pygmy SunbirdHedydipna platura
- Black Bee-eaterMerops gularis
- Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
- Cabanis's BuntingEmberiza cabanisi
- Western Violet-backed SunbirdAnthreptes longuemarei
- White-bibbed SwallowHirundo nigrita
- Eastern Bearded GreenbulCriniger chloronotus
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris
- Fiery-necked NightjarCaprimulgus pectoralis
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
- Red-fronted ParrotPoicephalus gulielmi
- Icterine GreenbulPhyllastrephus icterinus
- Leaf-lovePhyllastrephus scandens
- Red-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus rufus
- Red-crowned MalimbeMalimbus coronatus
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Brown-eared WoodpeckerPardipicus caroli
- Chattering CisticolaCisticola anonymus
- Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineus
- Blue-headed Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus nitens
- Rufous-tailed Palm ThrushCichladusa ruficauda
- White-browed Forest FlycatcherFraseria cinerascens
- White-bearded GreenbulCriniger ndussumensis
- Cassin's MalimbeMalimbus cassini
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Black-crowned WaxbillEstrilda nonnula
- Yellow-spotted BarbetBuccanodon duchaillui
- Blue-breasted Bee-eaterMerops variegatus
- Western Long-tailed HornbillHorizocerus albocristatus
- African Spotted CreeperSalpornis salvadori
- Bristle-nosed BarbetGymnobucco peli
- Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsuta
- White-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus poensis
- Rufous-sided BroadbillSmithornis rufolateralis
- Johanna's SunbirdCinnyris johannae
- African Dwarf KingfisherIspidina lecontei
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- Northern CrombecSylvietta brachyura
- White-chinned PriniaSchistolais leucopogon
- Western Dwarf HornbillHorizocerus hartlaubi
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
- White-crowned LapwingVanellus albiceps
- Yellow LongbillMacrosphenus flavicans
- Grey-headed BatisBatis orientalis
- Yellow-winged PytiliaPytilia hypogrammica
- Black-collared LovebirdAgapornis swindernianus
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- Grey-throated BarbetGymnobucco bonapartei
- Bat HawkMacheiramphus alcinus
- Pennant-winged NightjarCaprimulgus vexillarius
- Black-bellied SeedcrackerPyrenestes ostrinus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Pallid SwiftApus pallidus
- Collared FlycatcherFicedula albicollis
- Palestine SunbirdCinnyris osea
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Eastern Crested GuineafowlGuttera pucherani
- Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
- Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
- Dusky Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx mechowi
- Brown-rumped BuntingEmberiza affinis
- Latham's FrancolinPeliperdix lathami
- Brown-chested LapwingVanellus superciliosus
- Plumed GuineafowlGuttera plumifera
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Crested MalimbeMalimbus malimbicus
- Yellow-crested WoodpeckerChloropicus xantholophus
- Egyptian PloverPluvianus aegyptius
- Rufous-crowned EremomelaEremomela badiceps
- Fraser's SunbirdDeleornis fraseri
- Gabon CoucalCentropus anselli
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Lesser Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chloropterus
- Simple GreenbulChlorocichla simplex
- Scaly SpurfowlPternistis squamatus
- Blue-throated RollerEurystomus gularis
- Fernando Po BatisBatis poensis
- Bare-cheeked TrogonApaloderma aequatoriale
- Black-headed Bee-eaterMerops breweri
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularis
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
- Yellow-bellied HyliotaHyliota flavigaster
- Thick-billed CuckooPachycoccyx audeberti
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Yellow-billed OxpeckerBuphagus africanus
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Rock PratincoleGlareola nuchalis
- Marsh TchagraBocagia minuta
- Red-winged PytiliaPytilia phoenicoptera
- Spotted HoneyguideIndicator maculatus
- Sjöstedt's GreenbulBaeopogon clamans
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Black-bellied BustardLissotis melanogaster
- Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
- Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
- Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollis
- Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Buff-spotted WoodpeckerPardipicus nivosus
- Brown-chested AletheChamaetylas poliocephala
- Pale-fronted NigritaNigrita luteifrons
- West African SeedeaterCrithagra canicapilla
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- BrubruNilaus afer
- African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
- Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens
- SecretarybirdSagittarius serpentarius
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
- Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
- Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
- Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
- Plain GreenbulEurillas curvirostris
- Green-throated SunbirdChalcomitra rubescens
- Chestnut-capped FlycatcherErythrocercus mccallii
- Gambaga FlycatcherMuscicapa gambagae
- White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster
- Green-breasted PittaPitta reichenowi
- Yellow-footed FlycatcherMuscicapa sethsmithi
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Tawny EagleAquila rapax
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
- Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
- Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
- Black ScimitarbillRhinopomastus aterrimus
- African Shrike-flycatcherMegabyas flammulatus
- Pale-breasted IlladopsisIlladopsis rufipennis
- Black-headed WaxbillEstrilda atricapilla
- Gabon WoodpeckerDendropicos gabonensis
- Grey PratincoleGlareola cinerea
- Vermiculated Fishing OwlScotopelia bouvieri
- Violet-tailed SunbirdAnthreptes aurantius
- Rufous-rumped LarkPinarocorys erythropygia
- Bates's NightjarCaprimulgus batesi
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- Whistling CisticolaCisticola lateralis
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser superciliosus
- Ansorge's GreenbulEurillas ansorgei
- Western Bronze-naped PigeonColumba iriditorques
- Lyre-tailed HoneyguideMelichneutes robustus
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- Common Rock ThrushMonticola saxatilis
- Golden GreenbulCalyptocichla serinus
- Long-tailed HawkUrotriorchis macrourus
- Nkulengu RailHimantornis haematopus
- Preuss's WeaverPloceus preussi
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- Icterine WarblerHippolais icterina
- Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
- Shining DrongoDicrurus atripennis
- Orange WeaverPloceus aurantius
- Lemon-bellied CrombecSylvietta denti
- Heuglin's Masked WeaverPloceus heuglini
- White-collared StarlingGrafisia torquata
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
- Buff-spotted FlufftailSarothrura elegans
- Little Green SunbirdAnthreptes seimundi
- Blue-shouldered Robin-ChatCossypha cyanocampter
- Reichenbach's SunbirdAnabathmis reichenbachii
- Sahel Paradise WhydahVidua orientalis
- Dusky Crested FlycatcherElminia nigromitrata
- Black SpinetailTelacanthura melanopygia
- Rufous-bellied HelmetshrikePrionops rufiventris
- Dja River Scrub WarblerBradypterus grandis
- Black GuineafowlAgelastes niger
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- Saddle-billed StorkEphippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
- Yellow-billed ShrikeCorvinella corvina
- African CuckooCuculus gularis
- Purple StarlingLamprotornis purpureus
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- Ovambo SparrowhawkAccipiter ovampensis
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcherBias musicus
- Yellow-chinned SunbirdAnthreptes rectirostris
- Bronze-tailed StarlingLamprotornis chalcurus
- Chestnut-winged StarlingOnychognathus fulgidus
- Plain NightjarCaprimulgus inornatus
- Yellow-bellied Wattle-eyePlatysteira concreta
- Speckle-breasted WoodpeckerDendropicos poecilolaemus
- Brown NightjarVeles binotatus
- Lowland AkalatSheppardia cyornithopsis
- Grey Ground ThrushGeokichla princei
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
- Purple RollerCoracias naevius
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
- Freckled NightjarCaprimulgus tristigma
- Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- Olive Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx olivinus
- Beaudouin's Snake EagleCircaetus beaudouini
- Cassin's Hawk-EagleAquila africana
- Elliot's WoodpeckerDendropicos elliotii
- Blue-headed Bee-eaterMerops muelleri
- Forest Penduline TitAnthoscopus flavifrons
- Cameroon IndigobirdVidua camerunensis
- Grey-necked RockfowlPicathartes oreas
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus
- Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandarius
- Mourning Collared DoveStreptopelia decipiens
- Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
- Red-throated WryneckJynx ruficollis
- Great SnipeGallinago media
- Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellus
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Harlequin QuailCoturnix delegorguei
- Bronze-winged CourserRhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Tit HyliaPholidornis rushiae
- Narrow-tailed StarlingPoeoptera lugubris
- Least HoneyguideIndicator exilis
- Violet-backed HyliotaHyliota violacea
- Little Grey FlycatcherMuscicapa epulata
- Rufous-vented Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufocinerea
- Bates's Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone batesi
- Woodhouse's AntpeckerParmoptila woodhousei
- Emin's ShrikeLanius gubernator