Birds of Mali
Mali hosts 268 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- 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
- 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
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
- African ThrushTurdus pelios
- Bleating CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
- Pied CrowCorvus albus
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Namaqua DoveOena capensis
- 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
- 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
- Vitelline Masked WeaverPloceus vitellinus
- 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
- 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
- Yellow-fronted CanaryCrithagra mozambica
- Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus
- 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
- 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
- Brown-throated MartinRiparia paludicola
- Large Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula
- Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephala
- 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
- Fanti Saw-wingPsalidoprocne obscura
- Red-necked BuzzardButeo auguralis
- Preuss's Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon preussi
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- 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
- Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollis
- African SkimmerRynchops flavirostris
- Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis
- Yellow-spotted Bush SparrowGymnoris pyrgita
- Mottled SpinetailTelacanthura ussheri
- Marsh OwlAsio capensis
- Lesser JacanaMicroparra capensis
- 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