Birds of Cape Verde
Cape Verde hosts 110 regularly occurring species in this directory, 2 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to Cape Verde
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- Iago SparrowPasser iagoensis
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Brown-necked RavenCorvus ruficollis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Spanish SparrowPasser hispaniolensis
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Cape Verde SwiftApus alexandri
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Eurasian BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Bar-tailed LarkAmmomanes cinctura
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Black-crowned Sparrow-LarkEremopterix nigriceps
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Red-billed TropicbirdPhaethon aethereus
- Greater Hoopoe-LarkAlaemon alaudipes
- Cape Verde ShearwaterCalonectris edwardsii
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Cape Verde WarblerAcrocephalus brevipennis
- Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Cream-colored CourserCursorius cursor
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Boyd's ShearwaterPuffinus boydi
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Cape Verde PetrelPterodroma feae
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Bulwer's PetrelBulweria bulwerii
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- White-faced Storm PetrelPelagodroma marina
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Raso LarkAlauda razae
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Scopoli's ShearwaterCalonectris diomedea
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Egyptian VultureNeophron percnopterus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
- Great SkuaStercorarius skua
- Zino's PetrelPterodroma madeira
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
- Wilson's Storm PetrelOceanites oceanicus
- European Storm PetrelHydrobates pelagicus
- Red KiteMilvus milvus
- Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Sargasso ShearwaterPuffinus lherminieri
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- Sudan Golden SparrowPasser luteus
- Barolo ShearwaterPuffinus baroli
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicarius
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- Diamond DoveGeopelia cuneata