Birds of Ethiopia
Ethiopia hosts 691 regularly occurring species in this directory, 14 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to Ethiopia
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
- Ethiopian SiskinSerinus nigriceps
- White-winged Cliff ChatMonticola semirufus
- Yellow-fronted ParrotPoicephalus flavifrons
- Spot-breasted LapwingVanellus melanocephalus
- Abyssinian LongclawMacronyx flavicollis
- Abyssinian WoodpeckerDendropicos abyssinicus
- Ethiopian BushcrowZavattariornis stresemanni
- White-tailed SwallowHirundo megaensis
- Harwood's SpurfowlPternistis harwoodi
- Archer's LarkHeteromirafra archeri
- Ankober SerinCrithagra ankoberensis
- Yellow-throated SeedeaterCrithagra flavigula
- Salvadori's SeedeaterCrithagra xantholaema
- Red-billed PytiliaPytilia lineata
All regular species
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- Swainson's SparrowPasser swainsonii
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
- African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
- Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht
- Dusky Turtle DoveStreptopelia lugens
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
- Wattled IbisBostrychia carunculata
- Brown-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra tristriata
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Abyssinian ThrushTurdus abyssinicus
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Tacazze SunbirdNectarinia tacazze
- Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
- Fan-tailed RavenCorvus rhipidurus
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
- Augur BuzzardButeo augur
- Streaky SeedeaterCrithagra striolata
- Superb StarlingLamprotornis superbus
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Tawny EagleAquila rapax
- White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali
- Ethiopian Bee-eaterMerops lafresnayii
- Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- White-collared PigeonColumba albitorques
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Northern FiscalLanius humeralis
- African CitrilCrithagra citrinelloides
- Black-winged LovebirdAgapornis taranta
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus
- African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
- Rüppell's StarlingLamprotornis purpuroptera
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Pied WheatearOenanthe pleschanka
- Moorland ChatPinarochroa sordida
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis
- Mourning Collared DoveStreptopelia decipiens
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- Isabelline WheatearOenanthe isabellina
- Ethiopian BoubouLaniarius aethiopicus
- Rüppell's Robin-ChatCossypha semirufa
- White-headed Buffalo WeaverDinemellia dinemelli
- Thick-billed RavenCorvus crassirostris
- Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
- Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellus
- Ethiopian White-eyeZosterops poliogastrus
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Silvery-cheeked HornbillBycanistes brevis
- Rüppell's WeaverPloceus galbula
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
- Northern White-crowned ShrikeEurocephalus ruppelli
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata
- Blue-winged GooseCyanochen cyanoptera
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Ethiopian SiskinSerinus nigriceps
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Black-billed BarbetLybius guifsobalito
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
- White-rumped BabblerTurdoides leucopygia
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata
- Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioides
- Thekla's LarkGalerida theklae
- African Grey FlycatcherBradornis microrhynchus
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
- Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
- Ethiopian CisticolaCisticola lugubris
- Nyanza SwiftApus niansae
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Nubian WoodpeckerCampethera nubica
- Grey-backed FiscalLanius excubitoroides
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
- Abyssinian White-eyeZosterops abyssinicus
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Crested FrancolinOrtygornis sephaena
- Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus
- Abyssinian Ground HornbillBucorvus abyssinicus
- Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
- Blue-naped MousebirdUrocolius macrourus
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Rouget's RailRougetius rougetii
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Hemprich's HornbillLophoceros hemprichii
- Ethiopian OrioleOriolus monacha
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Black-billed Wood HoopoePhoeniculus somaliensis
- Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Banded BarbetLybius undatus
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
- Von der Decken's HornbillTockus deckeni
- Eastern Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos spodocephalus
- Wattled StarlingCreatophora cinerea
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus
- Cut-throat FinchAmadina fasciata
- Slate-colored BoubouLaniarius funebris
- Reichenow's SeedeaterCrithagra reichenowi
- Western Black-headed BatisBatis erlangeri
- Buff-bellied WarblerPhyllolais pulchella
- Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatus
- BrubruNilaus afer
- Mountain WagtailMotacilla clara
- Eurasian BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Red-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis niger
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Northern Red BishopEuplectes franciscanus
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Bruce's Green PigeonTreron waalia
- Rattling CisticolaCisticola chiniana
- Steppe EagleAquila nipalensis
- Marico SunbirdCinnyris mariquensis
- Yellow-bellied EremomelaEremomela icteropygialis
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Red-winged StarlingOnychognathus morio
- Red-faced CrombecSylvietta whytii
- Pink-backed PelicanPelecanus rufescens
- Northern CrombecSylvietta brachyura
- Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
- Grey-headed BatisBatis orientalis
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Little Rock ThrushMonticola rufocinereus
- Buff-breasted WheatearOenanthe bottae
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Egyptian VultureNeophron percnopterus
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Yellow-bellied WaxbillCoccopygia quartinia
- Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
- Red-bellied ParrotPoicephalus rufiventris
- Yellow-spotted Bush SparrowGymnoris pyrgita
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularis
- Chestnut-naped SpurfowlPternistis castaneicollis
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Eastern Chanting GoshawkMelierax poliopterus
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
- Purple RollerCoracias naevius
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Eastern Yellow-billed HornbillTockus flavirostris
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos
- Somali FiscalLanius somalicus
- Grey Wren-WarblerCalamonastes simplex
- White-winged Cliff ChatMonticola semirufus
- White-billed StarlingOnychognathus albirostris
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Abyssinian SunbirdCinnyris habessinicus
- Buff-crested BustardLophotis gindiana
- African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
- White-browed CoucalCentropus superciliosus
- Somali CrowCorvus edithae
- Little WeaverPloceus luteolus
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Yellow-fronted ParrotPoicephalus flavifrons
- Yellow-necked SpurfowlPternistis leucoscepus
- Rüppell's Black ChatMyrmecocichla melaena
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Vitelline Masked WeaverPloceus vitellinus
- Shelley's StarlingLamprotornis shelleyi
- Yellow-crowned CanarySerinus flavivertex
- Brown Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus umbrovirens
- White StorkCiconia ciconia
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- Slender-billed StarlingOnychognathus tenuirostris
- Ethiopian SwallowHirundo aethiopica
- Abyssinian WheatearOenanthe lugubris
- Black-headed OrioleOriolus larvatus
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
- Spot-breasted LapwingVanellus melanocephalus
- White-crowned StarlingLamprotornis albicapillus
- Cinnamon-breasted BuntingEmberiza tahapisi
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Kori BustardArdeotis kori
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Yellow BishopEuplectes capensis
- Abyssinian Ground ThrushGeokichla piaggiae
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Pygmy FalconPolihierax semitorquatus
- Lappet-faced VultureTorgos tracheliotos
- Red-fronted BarbetTricholaema diademata
- Cinnamon Bracken WarblerBradypterus cinnamomeus
- Yellow-breasted BarbetTrachyphonus margaritatus
- Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
- African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Abyssinian ScimitarbillRhinopomastus minor
- Isabelline ShrikeLanius isabellinus
- African SilverbillEuodice cantans
- Black-winged LapwingVanellus melanopterus
- Abyssinian LongclawMacronyx flavicollis
- Nile Valley SunbirdHedydipna metallica
- Slender-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus clarus
- Erckel's SpurfowlPternistis erckelii
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Blue-billed TealSpatula hottentota
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Somali BuntingEmberiza poliopleura
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- D'Arnaud's BarbetTrachyphonus darnaudii
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Blanford's LarkCalandrella blanfordi
- Mouse-colored Penduline TitAnthoscopus musculus
- Crimson-rumped WaxbillEstrilda rhodopyga
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Blue-headed CoucalCentropus monachus
- Black Crowned CraneBalearica pavonina
- White-bellied BustardEupodotis senegalensis
- Eastern Olivaceous WarblerIduna pallida
- Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
- Common CraneGrus grus
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- Eastern Plantain-eaterCrinifer zonurus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotis
- Red-throated WryneckJynx ruficollis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Abyssinian WoodpeckerDendropicos abyssinicus
- Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Somali OstrichStruthio molybdophanes
- White-browed Robin-ChatCossypha heuglini
- White-bellied CanaryCrithagra dorsostriata
- Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii
- Ethiopian BushcrowZavattariornis stresemanni
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Golden-breasted StarlingLamprotornis regius
- Black-chested Snake EagleCircaetus pectoralis
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Eastern Violet-backed SunbirdAnthreptes orientalis
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Red-and-yellow BarbetTrachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Chestnut WeaverPloceus rubiginosus
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Chestnut-bellied SandgrousePterocles exustus
- Black-throated BarbetTricholaema melanocephala
- Common Rock ThrushMonticola saxatilis
- White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Pale PriniaPrinia somalica
- Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
- Lesser Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chloropterus
- Spotted Palm ThrushCichladusa guttata
- Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferruginea
- African Olive PigeonColumba arquatrix
- Verreaux's EagleAquila verreauxii
- Bare-eyed ThrushTurdus tephronotus
- African Black DuckAnas sparsa
- Lesser FlamingoPhoeniconaias minor
- White-tailed SwallowHirundo megaensis
- Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
- Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- Arabian BustardArdeotis arabs
- Grey-capped Social WeaverPseudonigrita arnaudi
- White-headed VultureTrigonoceps occipitalis
- Shelley's SparrowPasser shelleyi
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Lesser Masked WeaverPloceus intermedius
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- African Spotted CreeperSalpornis salvadori
- Long-tailed Paradise WhydahVidua paradisaea
- Bearded WoodpeckerChloropicus namaquus
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Hunter's SunbirdChalcomitra hunteri
- Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Black ScimitarbillRhinopomastus aterrimus
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- Ortolan BuntingEmberiza hortulana
- Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
- Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- Boran CisticolaCisticola bodessa
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Pygmy BatisBatis perkeo
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
- Vulturine GuineafowlAcryllium vulturinum
- Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
- Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- Fawn-colored LarkCalendulauda africanoides
- Chestnut SparrowPasser eminibey
- Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor
- Lesser Swamp WarblerAcrocephalus gracilirostris
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba
- Red-billed TealAnas erythrorhyncha
- BlackstartOenanthe melanura
- Black-capped Social WeaverPseudonigrita cabanisi
- Long-billed PipitAnthus similis
- Red-tailed ShrikeLanius phoenicuroides
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Bristle-crowned StarlingOnychognathus salvadorii
- Moorland FrancolinScleroptila psilolaema
- African SnipeGallinago nigripennis
- Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Mountain BuzzardButeo oreophilus
- African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Saddle-billed StorkEphippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Straw-tailed WhydahVidua fischeri
- Pectoral-patch CisticolaCisticola brunnescens
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Singing Bush LarkMirafra javanica
- White-backed DuckThalassornis leuconotus
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- Three-banded CourserRhinoptilus cinctus
- Montane NightjarCaprimulgus poliocephalus
- Lichtenstein's SandgrousePterocles lichtensteinii
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Yellow-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra xanthopygia
- Abyssinian OwlAsio abyssinicus
- Cape Eagle-OwlBubo capensis
- Masked ShrikeLanius nubicus
- Half-collared KingfisherAlcedo semitorquata
- Taita FiscalLanius dorsalis
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Northern BrownbulPhyllastrephus strepitans
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Sombre Rock ChatOenanthe dubia
- Pearl-spotted OwletGlaucidium perlatum
- Red-naped BushshrikeLaniarius ruficeps
- Mottled SwiftTachymarptis aequatorialis
- Clapperton's SpurfowlPternistis clappertoni
- Tawny PipitAnthus campestris
- African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
- Pringle's PuffbackDryoscopus pringlii
- SecretarybirdSagittarius serpentarius
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Speckle-fronted WeaverSporopipes frontalis
- Stout CisticolaCisticola robustus
- Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
- Rufous-breasted SparrowhawkAccipiter rufiventris
- Southern PochardNetta erythrophthalma
- Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectus
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Speke's WeaverPloceus spekei
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- Olive Bee-eaterMerops superciliosus
- Somali CrombecSylvietta isabellina
- Northern Grosbeak-CanaryCrithagra donaldsoni
- Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckii
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser superciliosus
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Ayres's Hawk-EagleHieraaetus ayresii
- Fawn-breasted WaxbillEstrilda paludicola
- Pale White-eyeZosterops flavilateralis
- Harwood's SpurfowlPternistis harwoodi
- Scaly SpurfowlPternistis squamatus
- Short-toed Snake EagleCircaetus gallicus
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Western Black-eared WheatearOenanthe hispanica
- Tiny CisticolaCisticola nana
- Archer's LarkHeteromirafra archeri
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Ankober SerinCrithagra ankoberensis
- Yellow-throated SeedeaterCrithagra flavigula
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- Green-backed HoneybirdProdotiscus zambesiae
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Horus SwiftApus horus
- Yellow-crowned BishopEuplectes afer
- Scaly-throated HoneyguideIndicator variegatus
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Fan-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes axillaris
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix signatus
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- Salvadori's SeedeaterCrithagra xantholaema
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Northern Masked WeaverPloceus taeniopterus
- Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macroura
- White-winged Collared DoveStreptopelia reichenowi
- Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
- Brown-tailed Rock ChatOenanthe scotocerca
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- Long-legged BuzzardButeo rufinus
- Three-streaked TchagraTchagra jamesi
- Ashy CisticolaCisticola cinereolus
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- European RollerCoracias garrulus
- Siberian StonechatSaxicola maurus
- Magpie StarlingSpeculipastor bicolor
- Pale Crag MartinPtyonoprogne obsoleta
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- Abyssinian CrimsonwingCryptospiza salvadorii
- Striolated BuntingEmberiza striolata
- Fox KestrelFalco alopex
- Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandarius
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Green-backed EremomelaEremomela canescens
- Red-billed PytiliaPytilia lineata
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Foxy CisticolaCisticola troglodytes
- Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Yellow-vented EremomelaEremomela flavicrissalis
- Eastern Imperial EagleAquila heliaca
- Donaldson Smith's NightjarCaprimulgus donaldsoni
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Red-capped Robin-ChatCossypha natalensis
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris
- Cape TealAnas capensis
- Lesser JacanaMicroparra capensis
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Black-headed GonolekLaniarius erythrogaster
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris
- White-winged WidowbirdEuplectes albonotatus
- Maccoa DuckOxyura maccoa
- Western Banded Snake EagleCircaetus cinerascens
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- African Yellow WarblerIduna natalensis
- Hartlaub's BustardLissotis hartlaubii
- Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- White-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis albirostris
- QuailfinchOrtygospiza atricollis
- Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
- Black-faced SandgrousePterocles decoratus
- Black Scrub RobinCercotrichas podobe
- Kafa White-eyeZosterops kaffensis
- Thrush NightingaleLuscinia luscinia
- Reichard's SeedeaterCrithagra reichardi
- Upcher's WarblerHippolais languida
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Juba WeaverPloceus dichrocephalus
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Scissor-tailed KiteChelictinia riocourii
- Malachite SunbirdNectarinia famosa
- Somali CourserCursorius somalensis
- Allen's GallinulePorphyrio alleni
- Four-banded SandgrousePterocles quadricinctus
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Lesser Grey ShrikeLanius minor
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- Parrot-billed SparrowPasser gongonensis
- Harlequin QuailCoturnix delegorguei
- Black-bellied BustardLissotis melanogaster
- Pallas's GullIchthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- Black CuckooshrikeCampephaga flava
- Black-bellied SunbirdCinnyris nectarinioides
- Egyptian PloverPluvianus aegyptius
- Steel-blue WhydahVidua hypocherina
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Common OstrichStruthio camelus
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Desert CisticolaCisticola aridulus
- Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
- Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureus
- Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
- Grasshopper BuzzardButastur rufipennis
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Little Rush WarblerBradypterus baboecala
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Brown-backed HoneybirdProdotiscus regulus
- Star-spotted NightjarCaprimulgus stellatus
- White-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra leucopygia
- Green MalkohaCeuthmochares australis
- Freckled NightjarCaprimulgus tristigma
- Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
- Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvata
- White-throated RobinIrania gutturalis
- Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus
- Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Sombre NightjarCaprimulgus fraenatus
- Black-crowned Sparrow-LarkEremopterix nigriceps
- Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjecta
- Coqui FrancolinCampocolinus coqui
- Ovambo SparrowhawkAccipiter ovampensis
- Plain NightjarCaprimulgus inornatus
- Somali SparrowPasser castanopterus
- Somali StarlingOnychognathus blythii
- Basra Reed WarblerAcrocephalus griseldis
- Yellow-throated SandgrousePterocles gutturalis
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Greater Short-toed LarkCalandrella brachydactyla
- Orange-winged PytiliaPytilia afra
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca
- African CuckooCuculus gularis
- Gambaga FlycatcherMuscicapa gambagae
- Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
- Greater KestrelFalco rupicoloides
- Marsh WarblerAcrocephalus palustris
- Desert WheatearOenanthe deserti
- Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
- Slender-billed GullChroicocephalus genei
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleuUraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Crowned HornbillLophoceros alboterminatus
- Black BishopEuplectes gierowii
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- African RailRallus caerulescens
- Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- White-crowned WheatearOenanthe leucopyga
- Brown-rumped BuntingEmberiza affinis
- Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Orange-breasted WaxbillAmandava subflava
- Icterine WarblerHippolais icterina
- Semicollared FlycatcherFicedula semitorquata
- Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- Water Thick-kneeBurhinus vermiculatus
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
- SilverbirdEmpidornis semipartitus
- Beaudouin's Snake EagleCircaetus beaudouini
- Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemus
- Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollis
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris
- Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareia
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
- Masked LarkSpizocorys personata
- Brown BabblerTurdoides plebejus
- Pale RockfinchCarpospiza brachydactyla
- Somali Bee-eaterMerops revoilii
- Red-pate CisticolaCisticola ruficeps
- White-headed BabblerTurdoides leucocephala
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineus
- Desert LarkAmmomanes deserti
- Bat HawkMacheiramphus alcinus
- Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
- Sooty FalconFalco concolor
- Yellow-bellied HyliotaHyliota flavigaster
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Cyprus WheatearOenanthe cypriaca
- White-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha albicapillus
- Brown-backed WoodpeckerDendropicos obsoletus
- Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcher
- Pygmy SunbirdHedydipna platura
- Cuckoo-finchAnomalospiza imberbis
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Amur FalconFalco amurensis
- Pink-breasted LarkCalendulauda poecilosterna
- Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
- Common PochardAythya ferina
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus
- Common ButtonquailTurnix sylvaticus
- Black-winged PratincoleGlareola nordmanni
- Blue-breasted Bee-eaterMerops variegatus
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Green-backed WoodpeckerCampethera maculosa
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Sahel Paradise WhydahVidua orientalis
- Eastern Black-headed BatisBatis minor
- Wilson's IndigobirdVidua wilsoni
- Heuglin's BustardNeotis heuglinii
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Golden PipitTmetothylacus tenellus
- Griffon VultureGyps fulvus
- European NightjarCaprimulgus europaeus
- African Marsh HarrierCircus ranivorus
- Egyptian NightjarCaprimulgus aegyptius
- Scarce SwiftSchoutedenapus myoptilus
- Barka IndigobirdVidua larvaticola
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
- Eleonora's FalconFalco eleonorae
- Orange River FrancolinScleroptila gutturalis
- Stuhlmann's StarlingPoeoptera stuhlmanni
- Nubian NightjarCaprimulgus nubicus
- Great SnipeGallinago media
- Southern Red-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus pusillus
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- Spotted SandgrousePterocles senegallus
- Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser donaldsoni
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- Purple-banded SunbirdCinnyris bifasciatus
- African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Red-headed LovebirdAgapornis pullarius
- Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides
- Eurasian Scops OwlOtus scops
- Meyer's ParrotPoicephalus meyeri
- Long-toed LapwingVanellus crassirostris
- Bushveld PipitAnthus caffer
- Highland Rush WarblerBradypterus centralis
- Eastern Red-rumped SwallowCecropis daurica
- Mourning WheatearOenanthe lugens
- Violet Wood HoopoePhoeniculus damarensis
- Somali WheatearOenanthe phillipsi
- Philippa's CrombecSylvietta philippae
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Brown-necked RavenCorvus ruficollis
- Olive-tree WarblerHippolais olivetorum
- Pel's Fishing OwlScotopelia peli
- Marsh TchagraBocagia minuta
- Saker FalconFalco cherrug
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus
- Greater Hoopoe-LarkAlaemon alaudipes
- White-headed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne albiceps
- Sudan Golden SparrowPasser luteus
- Fischer's StarlingLamprotornis fischeri
- Cinereous BuntingEmberiza cineracea
- Dusky BabblerTurdoides tenebrosa