289 species · 67 rare visitors · ordered by how often reported
Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
Yellow-crowned GonolekLaniarius barbarus
Western Red-billed HornbillTockus kempi
Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
Eastern Cattle EgretArdea coromanda
Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
Northern Grey-headed SparrowPasser griseus
Senegal ParrotPoicephalus senegalus
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Yellow-billed ShrikeCorvinella corvina
Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
Brown BabblerTurdoides plebejus
African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus- Sierra Madre CrowCorvus sierramadrensis
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
African ThrushTurdus pelios
Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
Pied CrowCorvus albus
Little HeronButorides atricapilla
Striated HeronButorides striata
Bronze MannikinSpermestes cucullata
Namaqua DoveOena capensis
Lavender WaxbillGlaucestrilda caerulescens
Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava
Neumann's StarlingOnychognathus neumanni
PiapiacPtilostomus afer
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Little WeaverPloceus luteolus
Scarlet-chested SunbirdChalcomitra senegalensis
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
Little EgretEgretta garzetta
Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
Egyptian PloverPluvianus aegyptius
Beautiful SunbirdCinnyris pulchellus
African SilverbillEuodice cantans
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Little SwiftApus affinis
Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Northern Red BishopEuplectes franciscanus
Angola White-eyeZosterops kasaicus
Northern Yellow White-eyeZosterops senegalensis
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Bronze-tailed StarlingLamprotornis chalcurus
African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallus
Mourning Collared DoveStreptopelia decipiens
Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus
Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectus
Northern Red-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus uropygialis
Vitelline Masked WeaverPloceus vitellinus
Bearded BarbetPogonornis dubius
Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
Village IndigobirdVidua chalybeata
Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
Yellow-fronted TinkerbirdPogoniulus chrysoconus
Purple StarlingLamprotornis purpureus
Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
Singing CisticolaCisticola cantans
Gabar GoshawkMicronisus gabar
Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
Blackcap BabblerTurdoides reinwardtii
Pygmy SunbirdHedydipna platura
Grasshopper BuzzardButastur rufipennis
Levaillant's CuckooClamator levaillantii
Double-spurred SpurfowlPternistis bicalcaratus
Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Crested LarkGalerida cristata
Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosus
Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcher
Great EgretArdea alba
Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
HamerkopScopus umbretta
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotis
Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
African Golden OrioleOriolus auratus
Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
White-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis albirostris
Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
Lanner FalconFalco biarmicus
Fox KestrelFalco alopex
White-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha albicapillus- Mali FirefinchLagonosticta virata
Rock DoveColumba livia
RuffCalidris pugnax
Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
Senegal Thick-kneeBurhinus senegalensis
Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureus
Black CrakeZapornia flavirostra
Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus
Gosling's BuntingEmberiza goslingi
Sahel Paradise WhydahVidua orientalis
Woodchat ShrikeLanius senator
Red-necked FalconFalco chicquera
Violet TuracoTauraco violaceus
Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
Yellow-billed EgretArdea brachyrhyncha
Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
Purple RollerCoracias naevius
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla
Senegal EremomelaEremomela pusilla
Purple HeronArdea purpurea
Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
Speckle-fronted WeaverSporopipes frontalis
African Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos goertae
Timor NightjarCaprimulgus ritae- Congo Serpent EagleCircaetus spectabilis
Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Common HoopoeUpupa epops
Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
Wire-tailed SwallowHirundo smithii
Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
Cut-throat FinchAmadina fasciata
Red-chested SwallowHirundo lucida
Sudan Golden SparrowPasser luteus
Woodland KingfisherHalcyon senegalensis
Mocking Cliff ChatThamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus
Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatus
Chestnut-bellied SandgrousePterocles exustus
Dark Chanting GoshawkMelierax metabates
Black-crowned TchagraTchagra senegalus
Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
Sun LarkGalerida modesta
Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
Pin-tailed WhydahVidua macroura
White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata
Northern PuffbackDryoscopus gambensis
Black Scrub RobinCercotrichas podobe
Scissor-tailed KiteChelictinia riocourii
Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
White-crested HelmetshrikePrionops plumatus
Vieillot's BarbetLybius vieilloti
Yellow-crowned BishopEuplectes afer
Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
Giant KingfisherMegaceryle maxima
White-crowned LapwingVanellus albiceps
Lesser Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chloropterus
Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
White WagtailMotacilla alba
Common SwiftApus apus
Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
Abdim's StorkCiconia abdimii
Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
Short-toed Snake EagleCircaetus gallicus
Grey-headed BushshrikeMalaconotus blanchoti
Brown-necked RavenCorvus ruficollis
Siberian PipitAnthus japonicus
Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
Red-throated Rock MartinPtyonoprogne rufigula
Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbica
Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
Pearl-spotted OwletGlaucidium perlatum
Western Olivaceous WarblerIduna opaca
Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor
Western Barn OwlTyto alba
Yellow-billed OxpeckerBuphagus africanus
Northern CrombecSylvietta brachyura
Diederik CuckooChrysococcyx caprius
Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus
Blue-naped MousebirdUrocolius macrourus
Black ScimitarbillRhinopomastus aterrimus
Fine-spotted WoodpeckerCampethera punctuligera
White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
Mosque SwallowCecropis senegalensis
Grey PratincoleGlareola cinerea
WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
Freckled NightjarCaprimulgus tristigma
Bruce's Green PigeonTreron waalia
Blue-bellied RollerCoracias cyanogaster
White-rumped SeedeaterCrithagra leucopygia
Senegal BatisBatis senegalensis
Four-banded SandgrousePterocles quadricinctus
Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
White StorkCiconia ciconia
European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp
Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
Copper SunbirdCinnyris cupreus
Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser superciliosus
Greyish Eagle-OwlBubo cinerascens
Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
Sand MartinRiparia riparia
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
Jacobin CuckooClamator jacobinus
Tawny EagleAquila rapax
Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioides
House BuntingEmberiza sahari
Anteater ChatMyrmecocichla aethiops
Brown-rumped BuntingEmberiza affinis
Cricket WarblerSpiloptila clamans
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
Knob-billed DuckSarkidiornis melanotos
African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckii
Black-crowned Sparrow-LarkEremopterix nigriceps
Short-winged CisticolaCisticola brachypterus
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
Little StintCalidris minuta
Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglotta
Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
Violet-backed StarlingCinnyricinclus leucogaster
Greater HoneyguideIndicator indicator
Rufous-tailed Scrub RobinCercotrichas galactotes
Fanti Saw-wingPsalidoprocne obscura
Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
Mongolian GullLarus mongolicus
Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
African DarterAnhinga rufa
Egyptian VultureNeophron percnopterus
Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
Green-winged PytiliaPytilia melba
Iberian ChiffchaffPhylloscopus ibericus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
Winding CisticolaCisticola marginatus
Pale FlycatcherAgricola pallidus
African Pygmy GooseNettapus auritus
African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicauda
Allen's GallinulePorphyrio alleni
Red-headed QueleaQuelea erythrops
Whistling CisticolaCisticola lateralis
Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
Sharpe's DrongoDicrurus sharpei
Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjecta
Heuglin's Masked WeaverPloceus heuglini
Yellow Penduline TitAnthoscopus parvulus- Barka IndigobirdVidua larvaticola
Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
Tawny PipitAnthus campestris
Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
Golden-breasted BuntingEmberiza flaviventris
BrubruNilaus afer
Eastern Olivaceous WarblerIduna pallida
Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
Goliath HeronArdea goliath
Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergi
QuailfinchOrtygospiza atricollis
Yellow-bellied EremomelaEremomela icteropygialis
African HobbyFalco cuvierii
Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopicta
Red-headed LovebirdAgapornis pullarius
Adamawa Turtle DoveStreptopelia hypopyrrha
White-shouldered Black TitMelaniparus guineensis
Fulvous BabblerArgya fulva
Rufous CisticolaCisticola rufus
Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvata
White-throated FrancolinCampocolinus albogularis
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
House SparrowPasser domesticus
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
Common WhitethroatCurruca communis
Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
Kentish PloverAnarhynchus alexandrinus
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
Spotted Thick-kneeBurhinus capensis
Cardinal WoodpeckerDendropicos fuscescens
Orange-breasted BushshrikeChlorophoneus sulfureopectus
African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
Western Black-eared WheatearOenanthe hispanica
Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
Brown Snake EagleCircaetus cinereus
Striped KingfisherHalcyon chelicuti
Plain-backed PipitAnthus leucophrys
Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
Black HeronEgretta ardesiaca
Red-headed WeaverAnaplectes rubriceps
Rüppell's VultureGyps rueppelli
Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
African SkimmerRynchops flavirostris
Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
Yellow-spotted Bush SparrowGymnoris pyrgita
Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
Marsh OwlAsio capensis
Lesser MoorhenParagallinula angulata
Lesser JacanaMicroparra capensis
Red-winged PriniaPrinia erythroptera
Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
Standard-winged NightjarCaprimulgus longipennis
Black-backed CisticolaCisticola eximius- Cameroon IndigobirdVidua camerunensis
Garden WarblerSylvia borin
Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
Black StorkCiconia nigra
Western Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus bonelli
Lesser Striped SwallowCecropis abyssinica
European RollerCoracias garrulus
African Green PigeonTreron calvus
Lesser HoneyguideIndicator minor
Martial EaglePolemaetus bellicosus
Black CuckooCuculus clamosus
Pink-backed PelicanPelecanus rufescens
Orange-breasted WaxbillAmandava subflava
Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
African CuckooCuculus gularis
Cream-colored CourserCursorius cursor
Senegal LapwingVanellus lugubris
Olive-naped WeaverPloceus brachypterus
Oriole WarblerHypergerus atriceps
Long-tailed NightjarCaprimulgus climacurus
Western Violet-backed SunbirdAnthreptes longuemarei
Beaudouin's Snake EagleCircaetus beaudouini
Black Crowned CraneBalearica pavonina
Desert SparrowPasser simplex
Mangrove SunbirdAnthreptes gabonicus
Brown-backed WoodpeckerDendropicos obsoletus
White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster
Sennar Penduline TitAnthoscopus punctifrons
Maasai ApalisApalis stronachi
Eastern Black-eared WheatearOenanthe melanoleuca- Kordofan LarkMirafra cordofanica