Birds of Liberia
Liberia hosts 367 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
- Northern FiscalLanius humeralis
- Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
- Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
- Little GreenbulEurillas virens
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
- Green HyliaHylia prasina
- Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
- Simple GreenbulChlorocichla simplex
- Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
- Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
- Olive-bellied SunbirdCinnyris chloropygius
- Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
- Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
- African Green PigeonTreron calvus
- African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
- Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
- White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
- Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
- Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
- Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
- Olive-naped WeaverPloceus brachypterus
- Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
- Yellow-throated TinkerbirdPogoniulus subsulphureus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
- Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
- Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
- Yellow-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus bilineatus
- Slender-billed GreenbulStelgidillas gracilirostris
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Chestnut-and-black WeaverPloceus castaneofuscus
- Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
- Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
- Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
- Western NicatorNicator chloris
- Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Yellow-browed CamaropteraCamaroptera superciliaris
- Double-spurred SpurfowlPternistis bicalcaratus
- Whistling CisticolaCisticola lateralis
- Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
- Common SwiftApus apus
- Naked-faced BarbetGymnobucco calvus
- Sharpe's ApalisApalis sharpii
- Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
- Blue-throated Brown SunbirdCyanomitra cyanolaema
- Little Grey GreenbulEurillas gracilis
- Guinea TuracoTauraco persa
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- Red-tailed GreenbulCriniger calurus
- Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
- Square-tailed Saw-wingPsalidoprocne nitens
- Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- Black Bee-eaterMerops gularis
- White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
- African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolor
- Olive-green CamaropteraCamaroptera chloronota
- White-tailed AletheAlethe diademata
- Red-rumped TinkerbirdPogoniulus atroflavus
- Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
- Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
- Grey-headed BristlebillBleda canicapillus
- Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
- African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
- Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- White-spotted FlufftailSarothrura pulchra
- Brown IlladopsisIlladopsis fulvescens
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Honeyguide GreenbulBaeopogon indicator
- Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- Western Bearded GreenbulCriniger barbatus
- Splendid SunbirdCinnyris coccinigastrus
- Red-vented MalimbeMalimbus scutatus
- Red-faced CisticolaCisticola erythrops
- Western Bronze-naped PigeonColumba iriditorques
- Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
- Chestnut-breasted NigritaNigrita bicolor
- Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
- Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macroura
- Crimson SeedcrackerPyrenestes sanguineus
- Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
- Icterine GreenbulPhyllastrephus icterinus
- Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulator
- Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Green CrombecSylvietta virens
- Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
- Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
- Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglotta
- Vieillot's BarbetLybius vieilloti
- Superb SunbirdCinnyris superbus
- Johanna's SunbirdCinnyris johannae
- Yellow-casqued HornbillCeratogymna elata
- Buff-throated SunbirdChalcomitra adelberti
- Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australis
- Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
- Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
- Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcherBias musicus
- Western BluebillSpermophaga haematina
- European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
- Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
- Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeri
- Red-breasted SwallowCecropis semirufa
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Carmelite SunbirdChalcomitra fuliginosa
- African JacanaActophilornis africanus
- Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
- Red-tailed BristlebillBleda syndactylus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
- Lowland Sooty BoubouLaniarius leucorhynchus
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Buff-spotted WoodpeckerPardipicus nivosus
- Spotted GreenbulIxonotus guttatus
- Finsch's Rufous ThrushStizorhina finschi
- Shining DrongoDicrurus atripennis
- Fraser's SunbirdDeleornis fraseri
- Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabini
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Little Green SunbirdAnthreptes seimundi
- Crested MalimbeMalimbus malimbicus
- Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
- Yellow-chinned SunbirdAnthreptes rectirostris
- Yellow-spotted BarbetBuccanodon duchaillui
- Orange WeaverPloceus aurantius
- White-bibbed SwallowHirundo nigrita
- Mangrove SunbirdAnthreptes gabonicus
- African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Yellow-bearded GreenbulCriniger olivaceus
- Garden WarblerSylvia borin
- African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
- Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badia
- Ansorge's GreenbulEurillas ansorgei
- Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
- Timneh ParrotPsittacus timneh
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Black-casqued HornbillCeratogymna atrata
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Plain GreenbulEurillas curvirostris
- Western Long-tailed HornbillHorizocerus albocristatus
- Melancholy WoodpeckerDendropicos lugubris
- Kemp's LongbillMacrosphenus kempi
- Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster
- Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
- Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
- Black-throated CoucalCentropus leucogaster
- Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
- Copper-tailed StarlingHylopsar cupreocauda
- Green-tailed BristlebillBleda eximius
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelis
- Long-billed PipitAnthus similis
- Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothorax
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eyePlatysteira blissetti
- Pale-breasted IlladopsisIlladopsis rufipennis
- Brown-cheeked HornbillBycanistes cylindricus
- Hairy-breasted BarbetTricholaema hirsuta
- Tit HyliaPholidornis rushiae
- Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- White-tailed Ant ThrushNeocossyphus poensis
- Black-capped ApalisApalis nigriceps
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
- Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
- Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
- Brown-chested AletheChamaetylas poliocephala
- Rufous-sided BroadbillSmithornis rufolateralis
- Olive Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx olivinus
- Blackcap IlladopsisIlladopsis cleaveri
- Latham's FrancolinPeliperdix lathami
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- European Honey BuzzardPernis apivorus
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
- Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullus
- Hartlaub's DuckPteronetta hartlaubii
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
- Green-backed WoodpeckerCampethera maculosa
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- West African Crested TernThalasseus albididorsalis
- Lemon-bellied CrombecSylvietta denti
- Blue-headed Crested FlycatcherTrochocercus nitens
- Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
- Leaf-lovePhyllastrephus scandens
- Reichenbach's SunbirdAnabathmis reichenbachii
- Cassin's HoneybirdProdotiscus insignis
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Western Barn OwlTyto alba
- Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens
- Fraser's Forest FlycatcherFraseria ocreata
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Rock PratincoleGlareola nuchalis
- Red-billed Dwarf HornbillLophoceros camurus
- Sabine's SpinetailRhaphidura sabini
- Dusky Crested FlycatcherElminia nigromitrata
- African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Rufous-winged IlladopsisIlladopsis rufescens
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
- Blue-throated RollerEurystomus gularis
- Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- White-breasted NigritaNigrita fusconotus
- Chestnut-winged StarlingOnychognathus fulgidus
- Fire-bellied WoodpeckerChloropicus pyrrhogaster
- African Dwarf KingfisherIspidina lecontei
- Western Yellow-billed BarbetTrachylaemus goffinii
- African Wood OwlStrix woodfordii
- Oriole WarblerHypergerus atriceps
- Purple-throated CuckooshrikeCampephaga quiscalina
- Golden GreenbulCalyptocichla serinus
- Ayres's Hawk-EagleHieraaetus ayresii
- Rufous-crowned EremomelaEremomela badiceps
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Grey ParrotPsittacus erithacus
- Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
- Allen's GallinulePorphyrio alleni
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- African Shrike-flycatcherMegabyas flammulatus
- Ahanta SpurfowlPternistis ahantensis
- White-browed Forest FlycatcherFraseria cinerascens
- Crowned EagleStephanoaetus coronatus
- Cassin's FlycatcherMuscicapa cassini
- Red-billed HelmetshrikePrionops caniceps
- Yellow-bellied Wattle-eyePlatysteira concreta
- Senegal LapwingVanellus lugubris
- Fanti Saw-wingPsalidoprocne obscura
- Nimba FlycatcherMelaenornis annamarulae
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
- Brown-eared WoodpeckerPardipicus caroli
- Chestnut-capped FlycatcherErythrocercus mccallii
- Cassin's Hawk-EagleAquila africana
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- White-rumped SwiftApus caffer
- Sharpe's DrongoDicrurus sharpei
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Western Dwarf HornbillHorizocerus hartlaubi
- Bates's SwiftApus batesi
- Water Thick-kneeBurhinus vermiculatus
- Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
- Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
- Many-colored BushshrikeChlorophoneus multicolor
- Long-tailed HawkUrotriorchis macrourus
- Blue-moustached Bee-eaterMerops mentalis
- Fiery-breasted BushshrikeMalaconotus cruentus
- African HobbyFalco cuvierii
- Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
- Little Grey FlycatcherMuscicapa epulata
- Baumann's Olive GreenbulPhyllastrephus baumanni
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
- Mountain WagtailMotacilla clara
- Vieillot's Black WeaverPloceus nigerrimus
- African FinfootPodica senegalensis
- Black CoucalCentropus grillii
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachys
- Afep PigeonColumba unicincta
- Puvel's IlladopsisIlladopsis puveli
- Preuss's WeaverPloceus preussi
- Fernando Po BatisBatis poensis
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Asian Woolly-necked StorkCiconia episcopus
- Long-crested EagleLophaetus occipitalis
- White-crowned LapwingVanellus albiceps
- African Cuckoo-HawkAviceda cuculoides
- Willcocks's HoneyguideIndicator willcocksi
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
- Red-chested CuckooCuculus solitarius
- Narina TrogonApaloderma narina
- Senegal ParrotPoicephalus senegalus
- Green TwinspotMandingoa nitidula
- Red-fronted AntpeckerParmoptila rubrifrons
- Sierra Leone PriniaSchistolais leontica
- Gola MalimbeMalimbus ballmanni
- Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
- Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
- Yellow-mantled WeaverPloceus tricolor
- Nkulengu RailHimantornis haematopus
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
- Red-headed LovebirdAgapornis pullarius
- Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha
- Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
- African DarterAnhinga rufa
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
- Blue-headed CoucalCentropus monachus
- Brown NightjarVeles binotatus
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- QuailfinchOrtygospiza atricollis
- Bristle-nosed BarbetGymnobucco peli
- Spotted HoneyguideIndicator maculatus
- Spot-breasted IbisBostrychia rara
- Yellow-footed HoneyguideMelignomon eisentrauti
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
- Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
- Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollis
- Blue-shouldered Robin-ChatCossypha cyanocampter
- Cassin's SpinetailNeafrapus cassini
- Plain NightjarCaprimulgus inornatus
- Violet-backed HyliotaHyliota violacea
- Red-chested OwletGlaucidium tephronotum
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
- Marsh TchagraBocagia minuta
- Gosling's BuntingEmberiza goslingi
- Least HoneyguideIndicator exilis
- Forest White-eyeZosterops stenocricotus
- Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
- Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
- Eastern Crested GuineafowlGuttera pucherani
- Ethiopian SwallowHirundo aethiopica
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Bat HawkMacheiramphus alcinus
- White-throated GreenbulPhyllastrephus albigularis
- Black SpinetailTelacanthura melanopygia
- Gabon WoodpeckerDendropicos gabonensis
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Tropical BoubouLaniarius major
- Croaking CisticolaCisticola natalensis
- Square-tailed DrongoDicrurus ludwigii
- Senegal EremomelaEremomela pusilla
- Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
- Chestnut Wattle-eyeDyaphorophyia castanea
- Dusky Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx mechowi
- Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta rara
- Chattering CisticolaCisticola anonymus
- White-necked RockfowlPicathartes gymnocephalus
- Olive IbisBostrychia olivacea
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
- Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
- African Scops OwlOtus senegalensis
- Plain SwiftApus unicolor
- Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
- Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
- Heuglin's Masked WeaverPloceus heuglini
- Lagden's BushshrikeMalaconotus lagdeni
- Forest Penduline TitAnthoscopus flavifrons
- White-crested Tiger HeronTigriornis leucolopha
- Tessmann's FlycatcherFraseria tessmanni
- Lyre-tailed HoneyguideMelichneutes robustus
- Black-collared LovebirdAgapornis swindernianus