Birds of Ghana
Ghana hosts 592 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
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
- Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
- African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
- Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
- Little GreenbulEurillas virens
- Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
- Chestnut-and-black WeaverPloceus castaneofuscus
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Green HyliaHylia prasina
- Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
- Olive-bellied SunbirdCinnyris chloropygius
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus
- Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
- Senegal ParrotPoicephalus senegalus
- Ethiopian SwallowHirundo aethiopica
- Olive-naped WeaverPloceus brachypterus
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- Northern FiscalLanius humeralis
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Yellow-crowned GonolekLaniarius barbarus
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Double-spurred SpurfowlPternistis bicalcaratus
- Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
- Common SwiftApus apus
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Simple GreenbulChlorocichla simplex
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Splendid SunbirdCinnyris coccinigastrus
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Buff-throated SunbirdChalcomitra adelberti
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- Chestnut-breasted NigritaNigrita bicolor
- Western NicatorNicator chloris
- Vieillot's BarbetLybius vieilloti
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Green CrombecSylvietta virens
- Blue-throated Brown SunbirdCyanomitra cyanolaema
- Senegal EremomelaEremomela pusilla
- Red-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus atroflavus
- Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
- Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolor
- Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsuta
- Naked-faced BarbetGymnobucco calvus
- Blue-throated RollerEurystomus gularis
- Yellow-billed ShrikeCorvinella corvina
- Yellow-browed CamaropteraCamaroptera superciliaris
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Superb SunbirdCinnyris superbus
- Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
- Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
- Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureus
- Black Bee-eaterMerops gularis
- Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulator
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
- Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
- Purple StarlingLamprotornis purpureus
- Black-throated CoucalCentropus leucogaster
- Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
- Red-fronted ParrotPoicephalus gulielmi
- Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeri
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- Fire-bellied WoodpeckerChloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Yellow-mantled WeaverPloceus tricolor
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Western Long-tailed HornbillHorizocerus albocristatus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Tit HyliaPholidornis rushiae
- Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosus
- Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Johanna's SunbirdCinnyris johannae
- Little Green SunbirdAnthreptes seimundi
- Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
- Guinea TuracoTauraco persa
- Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioides
- Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens
- White-breasted NigritaNigrita fusconotus
- Honeyguide GreenbulBaeopogon indicator
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Grey-headed BristlebillBleda canicapillus
- Crested MalimbeMalimbus malimbicus
- Blue-headed CoucalCentropus monachus
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Sharpe's ApalisApalis sharpii
- Finsch's Rufous ThrushStizorhina finschi
- Little Grey GreenbulEurillas gracilis
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha
- Red-tailed GreenbulCriniger calurus
- Icterine GreenbulPhyllastrephus icterinus
- Yellow-spotted BarbetBuccanodon duchaillui
- Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Fraser's Forest FlycatcherFraseria ocreata
- PiapiacPtilostomus afer
- Red-vented MalimbeMalimbus scutatus
- Red-billed HelmetshrikePrionops caniceps
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
- Western Bearded GreenbulCriniger barbatus
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
- Pygmy SunbirdHedydipna platura
- Rufous-sided BroadbillSmithornis rufolateralis
- Fraser's SunbirdDeleornis fraseri
- Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
- Western Yellow-billed BarbetTrachylaemus goffinii
- Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullus
- BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
- Northern Red BishopEuplectes franciscanus
- White-tailed AletheAlethe diademata
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Shining DrongoDicrurus atripennis
- Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badia
- Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabini
- Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Chestnut-winged StarlingOnychognathus fulgidus
- Grasshopper BuzzardButastur rufipennis
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- Whistling CisticolaCisticola lateralis
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- Buff-spotted WoodpeckerPardipicus nivosus
- Plain GreenbulEurillas curvirostris
- Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellus
- Copper-tailed StarlingHylopsar cupreocauda
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
- Square-tailed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne nitens
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Golden GreenbulCalyptocichla serinus
- Blue-bellied RollerCoracias cyanogaster
- Chestnut-capped FlycatcherErythrocercus mccallii
- African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
- Western BluebillSpermophaga haematina
- Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothorax
- Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
- Oriole WarblerHypergerus atriceps
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Brown BabblerTurdoides plebejus
- Rosy Bee-eaterMerops malimbicus
- White-spotted FlufftailSarothrura pulchra
- Senegal BatisBatis senegalensis
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macroura
- Rufous-crowned EremomelaEremomela badiceps
- Olive Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx olivinus
- Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
- Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
- Yellow-chinned SunbirdAnthreptes rectirostris
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Bristle-nosed BarbetGymnobucco peli
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Melancholy WoodpeckerDendropicos lugubris
- Little WeaverPloceus luteolus
- Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
- Brown-cheeked HornbillBycanistes cylindricus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcherBias musicus
- Olive-green CamaropteraCamaroptera chloronota
- Sabine's SpinetailRhaphidura sabini
- Purple RollerCoracias naevius
- Lemon-bellied CrombecSylvietta denti
- Bruce's Green PigeonTreron waalia
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- White-backed VultureGyps africanus
- Red-tailed BristlebillBleda syndactylus
- Grey ParrotPsittacus erithacus
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser superciliosus
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
- Orange WeaverPloceus aurantius
- Long-tailed HawkUrotriorchis macrourus
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Fanti Saw-wingPsalidoprocne obscura
- Kemp's LongbillMacrosphenus kempi
- Blue-headed Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus nitens
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eyePlatysteira blissetti
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
- Blackcap BabblerTurdoides reinwardtii
- Black-casqued HornbillCeratogymna atrata
- Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
- Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Northern CrombecSylvietta brachyura
- Western Dwarf HornbillHorizocerus hartlaubi
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
- Cassin's HoneybirdProdotiscus insignis
- Puvel's IlladopsisIlladopsis puveli
- Cassin's SpinetailNeafrapus cassini
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster
- Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Violet-backed HyliotaHyliota violacea
- Spotted GreenbulIxonotus guttatus
- Black-capped ApalisApalis nigriceps
- Reichenbach's SunbirdAnabathmis reichenbachii
- Red-billed Dwarf HornbillLophoceros camurus
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Yellow-bearded GreenbulCriniger olivaceus
- White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
- Sun LarkGalerida modesta
- White-necked RockfowlPicathartes gymnocephalus
- White-bibbed SwallowHirundo nigrita
- Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
- Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
- Pearl-spotted OwletGlaucidium perlatum
- Black ScimitarbillRhinopomastus aterrimus
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Purple-throated CuckooshrikeCampephaga quiscalina
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- Wilson's IndigobirdVidua wilsoni
- BrubruNilaus afer
- Cassin's FlycatcherMuscicapa cassini
- Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons
- Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachys
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Cassin's Hawk-EagleAquila africana
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- White-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus poensis
- Marsh TchagraBocagia minuta
- West African Crested TernThalasseus albididorsalis
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Little Grey FlycatcherMuscicapa epulata
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- White-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha albicapillus
- Mangrove SunbirdAnthreptes gabonicus
- Gosling's BuntingEmberiza goslingi
- Ansorge's GreenbulEurillas ansorgei
- Brown IlladopsisIlladopsis fulvescens
- Rock PratincoleGlareola nuchalis
- Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Swamp FlycatcherMuscicapa aquatica
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- White-headed VultureTrigonoceps occipitalis
- Fine-spotted WoodpeckerCampethera punctuligera
- Black-bellied SeedcrackerPyrenestes ostrinus
- Blackcap IlladopsisIlladopsis cleaveri
- Preuss's WeaverPloceus preussi
- Nkulengu RailHimantornis haematopus
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineus
- Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Blue-moustached Bee-eaterMerops mentalis
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- Pale-breasted IlladopsisIlladopsis rufipennis
- White-throated GreenbulPhyllastrephus albigularis
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Lowland Sooty BoubouLaniarius leucorhynchus
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Ahanta SpurfowlPternistis ahantensis
- Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
- Four-banded SandgrousePterocles quadricinctus
- Lesser Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chloropterus
- Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
- Green-tailed BristlebillBleda eximius
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotis
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- Brown NightjarVeles binotatus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
- Egyptian PloverPluvianus aegyptius
- African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicauda
- African CuckooCuculus gularis
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris
- Abyssinian Ground HornbillBucorvus abyssinicus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Rufous CisticolaCisticola rufus
- Green-backed WoodpeckerCampethera maculosa
- Fernando Po BatisBatis poensis
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
- Forest Penduline TitAnthoscopus flavifrons
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglotta
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
- Black SpinetailTelacanthura melanopygia
- White-throated FrancolinCampocolinus albogularis
- Western Bronze-naped PigeonColumba iriditorques
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Tessmann's FlycatcherFraseria tessmanni
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- Hartlaub's DuckPteronetta hartlaubii
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- QuailfinchOrtygospiza atricollis
- Yellow-casqued HornbillCeratogymna elata
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- Rufous-winged IlladopsisIlladopsis rufescens
- Bronze-tailed StarlingLamprotornis chalcurus
- Brown-rumped BuntingEmberiza affinis
- Latham's FrancolinPeliperdix lathami
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Yellow-throated CuckooChrysococcyx flavigularis
- Red-winged PytiliaPytilia phoenicoptera
- Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvata
- Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjecta
- Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Ayres's Hawk-EagleHieraaetus ayresii
- Red-fronted AntpeckerParmoptila rubrifrons
- Yellow-billed OxpeckerBuphagus africanus
- Willcocks's HoneyguideIndicator willcocksi
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Fiery-necked NightjarCaprimulgus pectoralis
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- White-headed Wood HoopoePhoeniculus bollei
- Mourning Collared DoveStreptopelia decipiens
- Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcher
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- African SilverbillEuodice cantans
- Narrow-tailed StarlingPoeoptera lugubris
- Western Violet-backed SunbirdAnthreptes longuemarei
- Blue-shouldered Robin-ChatCossypha cyanocampter
- Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
- Pied-winged SwallowHirundo leucosoma
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Beaudouin's Snake EagleCircaetus beaudouini
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Rock-loving CisticolaCisticola aberrans
- Bates's SwiftApus batesi
- Plain NightjarCaprimulgus inornatus
- Red-chested OwletGlaucidium tephronotum
- Sharpe's DrongoDicrurus sharpei
- Brown-backed WoodpeckerDendropicos obsoletus
- African Shrike-flycatcherMegabyas flammulatus
- Yellow-crowned BishopEuplectes afer
- Tropical BoubouLaniarius major
- Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
- Leaf-lovePhyllastrephus scandens
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Fox KestrelFalco alopex
- Allen's GallinulePorphyrio alleni
- Brown-eared WoodpeckerPardipicus caroli
- Cape ParrotPoicephalus robustus
- Thick-billed CuckooPachycoccyx audeberti
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Yellow-footed HoneyguideMelignomon eisentrauti
- Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
- Black-bellied BustardLissotis melanogaster
- Spot-breasted IbisBostrychia rara
- Great Spotted CuckooClamator glandarius
- Togo Paradise WhydahVidua togoensis
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
- Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
- White-crowned LapwingVanellus albiceps
- Dorst's CisticolaCisticola guinea
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- Slender-billed WeaverPloceus pelzelni
- Red-headed LovebirdAgapornis pullarius
- African Dwarf KingfisherIspidina lecontei
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
- Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Afep PigeonColumba unicincta
- Dusky Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx mechowi
- Heuglin's Masked WeaverPloceus heuglini
- African Spotted CreeperSalpornis salvadori
- White-crested Tiger HeronTigriornis leucolopha
- African Barred OwletGlaucidium capense
- Gambaga FlycatcherMuscicapa gambagae
- Least HoneyguideIndicator exilis
- Western Banded Snake EagleCircaetus cinerascens
- Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta rara
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- White-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis albirostris
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- Bat HawkMacheiramphus alcinus
- Senegal LapwingVanellus lugubris
- Black-backed CisticolaCisticola eximius
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Black CoucalCentropus grillii
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Golden-tailed WoodpeckerCampethera abingoni
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Vitelline Masked WeaverPloceus vitellinus
- Rufous-rumped LarkPinarocorys erythropygia
- Carmelite SunbirdChalcomitra fuliginosa
- Yellow-bellied HyliotaHyliota flavigaster
- Spotted HoneyguideIndicator maculatus
- Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
- White-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra leucopygia
- Eastern Crested GuineafowlGuttera pucherani
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Fiery-breasted BushshrikeMalaconotus cruentus
- African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
- Saddle-billed StorkEphippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Dusky Crested FlycatcherElminia nigromitrata
- Baumann's Olive GreenbulPhyllastrephus baumanni
- Speckle-fronted WeaverSporopipes frontalis
- Western Olivaceous WarblerIduna opaca
- Many-colored BushshrikeChlorophoneus multicolor
- Lagden's BushshrikeMalaconotus lagdeni
- Denham's BustardNeotis denhami
- Yellow Penduline TitAnthoscopus parvulus
- Freckled NightjarCaprimulgus tristigma
- Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectus
- Nimba FlycatcherMelaenornis annamarulae
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- Cut-throat FinchAmadina fasciata
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Tawny EagleAquila rapax
- White-browed Forest FlycatcherFraseria cinerascens
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Orange-breasted WaxbillAmandava subflava
- Mottled SwiftTachymarptis aequatorialis
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Greater Swamp WarblerAcrocephalus rufescens
- Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- West African SeedeaterCrithagra canicapilla
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Ovambo SparrowhawkAccipiter ovampensis
- Brown-chested AletheChamaetylas poliocephala
- Cabanis's BuntingEmberiza cabanisi
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Little Rush WarblerBradypterus baboecala
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Black-collared LovebirdAgapornis swindernianus
- Bates's SunbirdCinnyris batesi
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- Singing Bush LarkMirafra javanica
- Short-toed Snake EagleCircaetus gallicus
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
- Grey-throated RailCanirallus oculeus
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
- Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
- Pale-fronted NigritaNigrita luteifrons
- Western Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus bonelli
- Swamp NightjarCaprimulgus natalensis
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Goliath HeronArdea goliath
- Common ButtonquailTurnix sylvaticus
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii
- Red-necked NightjarCaprimulgus ruficollis
- Yellow-winged PytiliaPytilia hypogrammica
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
- White-bellied BustardEupodotis senegalensis
- Vieillot's Black WeaverPloceus nigerrimus
- Pel's Fishing OwlScotopelia peli
- Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris
- Emin's ShrikeLanius gubernator
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- Cameroon IndigobirdVidua camerunensis
- White-breasted GuineafowlAgelastes meleagrides
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Water Thick-kneeBurhinus vermiculatus
- Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckii
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
- Long-billed PipitAnthus similis
- Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollis
- Rufous Fishing OwlScotopelia ussheri
- Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
- African PittaPitta angolensis
- Black-headed Bee-eaterMerops breweri
- Blue QuailSynoicus adansonii
- White StorkCiconia ciconia
- African BroadbillSmithornis capensis
- Barka IndigobirdVidua larvaticola
- Sandy Scops OwlOtus icterorhynchus
- Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
- Pallid SwiftApus pallidus
- Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
- Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba
- Red-footed FalconFalco vespertinus
- African SkimmerRynchops flavirostris
- Chestnut Wattle-eyeDyaphorophyia castanea
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
- Great SnipeGallinago media
- Brown-backed HoneybirdProdotiscus regulus
- Bronze-winged CourserRhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Gabon WoodpeckerDendropicos gabonensis
- American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
- Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
- Square-tailed DrongoDicrurus ludwigii