Birds of Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea hosts 321 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 Equatorial Guinea
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Little GreenbulEurillas virens
- Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
- Green HyliaHylia prasina
- Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureus
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Grey ParrotPsittacus erithacus
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
- Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
- Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolor
- Yellow-lored BristlebillBleda notatus
- Fire-crested AletheAlethe castanea
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Blue-throated Brown SunbirdCyanomitra cyanolaema
- Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
- Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeri
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothorax
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Fraser's Rufous ThrushStizorhina fraseri
- Yellow LongbillMacrosphenus flavicans
- Black-casqued HornbillCeratogymna atrata
- Yellow-spotted BarbetBuccanodon duchaillui
- Red-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus atroflavus
- Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
- Red-tailed GreenbulCriniger calurus
- Chestnut Wattle-eyeDyaphorophyia castanea
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowi
- Western NicatorNicator chloris
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Olive-bellied SunbirdCinnyris chloropygius
- Red-tailed BristlebillBleda syndactylus
- Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Spotted GreenbulIxonotus guttatus
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badia
- Oriole FinchLinurgus olivaceus
- Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulator
- Buff-throated ApalisApalis rufogularis
- Forest White-eyeZosterops stenocricotus
- Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus
- Afep PigeonColumba unicincta
- Brown-chested AletheChamaetylas poliocephala
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- Rufous-sided BroadbillSmithornis rufolateralis
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Brown IlladopsisIlladopsis fulvescens
- Western Mountain GreenbulArizelocichla tephrolaema
- Icterine GreenbulPhyllastrephus icterinus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Eastern Bearded GreenbulCriniger chloronotus
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- Ethiopian SwallowHirundo aethiopica
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- White-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus poensis
- Olive-green CamaropteraCamaroptera chloronota
- Fraser's SunbirdDeleornis fraseri
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Square-tailed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne nitens
- Simple GreenbulChlorocichla simplex
- Blackcap IlladopsisIlladopsis cleaveri
- Olive Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx olivinus
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Red-billed Dwarf HornbillLophoceros camurus
- Shining DrongoDicrurus atripennis
- White-breasted NigritaNigrita fusconotus
- Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
- White-bearded GreenbulCriniger ndussumensis
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Buff-spotted WoodpeckerPardipicus nivosus
- Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabini
- Pale-breasted IlladopsisIlladopsis rufipennis
- Chestnut-capped FlycatcherErythrocercus mccallii
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Green CrombecSylvietta virens
- Yellow-browed CamaropteraCamaroptera superciliaris
- Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
- Purple-headed StarlingHylopsar purpureiceps
- Western Bronze-naped PigeonColumba iriditorques
- Vieillot's Black WeaverPloceus nigerrimus
- Yellow-throated NicatorNicator vireo
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Plain GreenbulEurillas curvirostris
- Yellow-bellied Wattle-eyePlatysteira concreta
- Chattering CisticolaCisticola anonymus
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Grey-throated BarbetGymnobucco bonapartei
- Grey ApalisApalis cinerea
- Black-headed WaxbillEstrilda atricapilla
- Ansorge's GreenbulEurillas ansorgei
- Sabine's SpinetailRhaphidura sabini
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Bare-cheeked TrogonApaloderma aequatoriale
- Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
- Xavier's GreenbulPhyllastrephus xavieri
- Long-legged PipitAnthus pallidiventris
- Superb SunbirdCinnyris superbus
- Tit HyliaPholidornis rushiae
- Red-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus rufus
- Bocage's AkalatSheppardia bocagei
- Cassin's SpinetailNeafrapus cassini
- Evergreen Forest WarblerBradypterus lopezi
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Banded PriniaPrinia bairdii
- Green LongtailUrolais epichlorus
- Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
- Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsuta
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- White-bibbed SwallowHirundo nigrita
- Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullus
- Brown-eared WoodpeckerPardipicus caroli
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
- Lemon-bellied CrombecSylvietta denti
- Golden GreenbulCalyptocichla serinus
- Yellow-chinned SunbirdAnthreptes rectirostris
- Waller's StarlingOnychognathus walleri
- Mountain Sooty BoubouLaniarius poensis
- Lowland AkalatSheppardia cyornithopsis
- Sjöstedt's GreenbulBaeopogon clamans
- Bates's SwiftApus batesi
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Hartlaub's DuckPteronetta hartlaubii
- Yellow-footed FlycatcherMuscicapa sethsmithi
- Mountain Saw-wingPsalidoprocne fuliginosa
- White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster
- Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Black-necked Wattle-eyePlatysteira chalybea
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- White-bellied Robin-ChatCossyphicula roberti
- Black-crowned WaxbillEstrilda nonnula
- Green-throated SunbirdChalcomitra rubescens
- White-browed Forest FlycatcherFraseria cinerascens
- Cameroon SunbirdCyanomitra oritis
- Falkenstein's GreenbulChlorocichla falkensteini
- Yellow-throated CuckooChrysococcyx flavigularis
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Black-faced Rufous WarblerBathmocercus rufus
- Black-capped Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus herberti
- Western Long-tailed HornbillHorizocerus albocristatus
- Western BluebillSpermophaga haematina
- Little Green SunbirdAnthreptes seimundi
- Spotted HoneyguideIndicator maculatus
- Woodhouse's AntpeckerParmoptila woodhousei
- Annobon White-eyeZosterops griseovirescens
- White-spotted FlufftailSarothrura pulchra
- Dusky Crested FlycatcherElminia nigromitrata
- Olive-naped WeaverPloceus brachypterus
- Blue-headed Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus nitens
- Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolor
- Fernando Po SpeiropsZosterops brunneus
- Black Bee-eaterMerops gularis
- Guinea TuracoTauraco persa
- Chestnut-breasted NigritaNigrita bicolor
- Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
- Pale-fronted NigritaNigrita luteifrons
- White-bellied Crested FlycatcherElminia albiventris
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- Red-faced CrimsonwingCryptospiza reichenovii
- Cameroon Olive PigeonColumba sjostedti
- Black-capped ApalisApalis nigriceps
- Fraser's Forest FlycatcherFraseria ocreata
- Lyre-tailed HoneyguideMelichneutes robustus
- Honeyguide GreenbulBaeopogon indicator
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Yellow BishopEuplectes capensis
- Uganda Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus budongoensis
- Sjöstedt's Barred OwletGlaucidium sjostedti
- Long-tailed HawkUrotriorchis macrourus
- Fernando Po BatisBatis poensis
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- Elliot's WoodpeckerDendropicos elliotii
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcherBias musicus
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Cameroon Olive GreenbulPhyllastrephus poensis
- Black-and-white-casqued HornbillBycanistes subcylindricus
- Violet-backed HyliotaHyliota violacea
- White-thighed HornbillBycanistes albotibialis
- Cassin's FlycatcherMuscicapa cassini
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- African Dwarf KingfisherIspidina lecontei
- Rufous-bellied HelmetshrikePrionops rufiventris
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
- Crested MalimbeMalimbus malimbicus
- Rufous-crowned EremomelaEremomela badiceps
- African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta
- White-tailed WarblerPoliolais lopezi
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollis
- Blue-throated RollerEurystomus gularis
- Dusky Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx mechowi
- Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachys
- Fiery-breasted BushshrikeMalaconotus cruentus
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Naked-faced BarbetGymnobucco calvus
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Little Grey GreenbulEurillas gracilis
- Black-bellied SeedcrackerPyrenestes ostrinus
- Many-colored BushshrikeChlorophoneus multicolor
- Cassin's MalimbeMalimbus cassini
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- West African Crested TernThalasseus albididorsalis
- Black-throated CoucalCentropus leucogaster
- Violet-tailed SunbirdAnthreptes aurantius
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- Green-backed WoodpeckerCampethera maculosa
- White-throated GreenbulPhyllastrephus albigularis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Gabon WoodpeckerDendropicos gabonensis
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Chestnut-winged StarlingOnychognathus fulgidus
- Johanna's SunbirdCinnyris johannae
- Rufous-vented Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufocinerea
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- African Shrike-flycatcherMegabyas flammulatus
- Least HoneyguideIndicator exilis
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- Blue-headed CoucalCentropus monachus
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Bat HawkMacheiramphus alcinus
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Bocage's BushshrikeChlorophoneus bocagei
- Black-billed WeaverPloceus melanogaster
- Pel's Fishing OwlScotopelia peli
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
- Mackinnon's ShrikeLanius mackinnoni
- Scaly SpurfowlPternistis squamatus
- Gabon CoucalCentropus anselli
- Shelley's OlivebackNesocharis shelleyi
- Zenker's HoneyguideMelignomon zenkeri
- Western Dwarf HornbillHorizocerus hartlaubi
- Bates's SunbirdCinnyris batesi
- Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
- Lühder's BushshrikeLaniarius luehderi
- Reichenbach's SunbirdAnabathmis reichenbachii
- Blue-breasted Bee-eaterMerops variegatus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Great EgretArdea alba
- African Black SwiftApus barbatus
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Greater Swamp WarblerAcrocephalus rufescens
- Scarce SwiftSchoutedenapus myoptilus
- Ursula's SunbirdCinnyris ursulae
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Mountain WagtailMotacilla clara
- Brown-capped WeaverPloceus insignis
- Latham's FrancolinPeliperdix lathami
- Spot-breasted IbisBostrychia rara
- Brown NightjarVeles binotatus
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha
- Rachel's MalimbeMalimbus racheliae
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- Bar-tailed TrogonApaloderma vittatum
- Willcocks's HoneyguideIndicator willcocksi
- Nkulengu RailHimantornis haematopus
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- White-chinned PriniaSchistolais leucopogon
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- Cassin's HoneybirdProdotiscus insignis
- Lowland Sooty BoubouLaniarius leucorhynchus
- Grey-headed BroadbillSmithornis sharpei
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
- African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicauda
- Grey-chested BabblerKakamega poliothorax
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- HamerkopScopus umbretta
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Blue-headed Bee-eaterMerops muelleri
- Blue-moustached Bee-eaterMerops mentalis
- Red-eyed PuffbackDryoscopus senegalensis
- Grey PratincoleGlareola cinerea
- Grey-necked RockfowlPicathartes oreas
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Sharpe's DrongoDicrurus sharpei
- Cassin's Hawk-EagleAquila africana
- Carmelite SunbirdChalcomitra fuliginosa
- Little Grey FlycatcherMuscicapa epulata
- Vermiculated Fishing OwlScotopelia bouvieri
- Plumed GuineafowlGuttera plumifera
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Grey-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Narrow-tailed StarlingPoeoptera lugubris
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- Black Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera
- Pink-backed PelicanPelecanus rufescens
- Black NoddyAnous minutus
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Rosy Bee-eaterMerops malimbicus
- Maned OwlJubula lettii