Bird List:
Column A = Number of days this species was recorded.
Column B = Maximum daily count.
H = denotes a species that was heard but was not seen
(H) = denotes a species that was heard more often than it was seen
A | B | |||
African Darter | 4 | 30 | Anhinga rufa | |
Long-tailed Cormorant | 5 | 50 | Phalacrocorax africanus | |
White-breasted' Great Cormorant | 1 | 30 | Phalacrocorax carbo (lucidus) | |
Great White Pelican | 2 | 150 | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
Pink-backed Pelican | 6 | 80 | Pelecanus rufescens | |
Grey Heron | 6 | 10 | Ardea cinerea | |
Black-headed Heron | 5 | 10 | Ardea melanocephala | |
Purple Heron | 5 | 2 | Ardea purpurea | |
Goliath Heron | 1 | 1 | Ardea goliath | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | 2 | 5 | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
White-backed Night Heron | 1 | 2 | Gorsachius leuconotus | |
Squacco Heron | 6 | 10 | Ardeola ralloides | |
Western Reef Egret | 7 | 200 | Egretta gularis | |
Black Egret | 3 | 20 | Egretta ardesiaca | |
Cattle Egret | 8 | 500 | Bubulcus ibis | |
Little Egret | 4 | 15 | Egretta garzetta | |
Intermediate Egret | 2 | 50 | Egretta intermedia | |
Great White Egret | 7 | 20 | Egretta alba | |
Hamerkop | 5 | 15 | Scopus umbretta | |
Striated Heron | 4 | 2 | Butorides striata | |
Yellow-billed Stork | 3 | 12 | Mycteria ibis | |
Black Stork | 1 | 8 | Ciconia nigra | |
Woolly-necked Stork | 3 | 20 | Ciconia episcopus | |
European Spoonbill | 1 | 5 | Platalea leucorodia | |
Sacred Ibis | 2 | 3 | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
White-faced Whistling Duck | 4 | 50 | Dendrocygna viduata | |
Knob-billed Duck | 1 | 4 | Sarkidiornis melanotos | |
Spur-winged Goose | 2 | 9 | Plectropterus gambensis | |
African Fish Eagle | 3 | 3 | Haliaeetus vocifer | |
Osprey | 7 | 7 | Pandion haliaetus | |
Palm-nut Vulture | 3 | 3 | Gypohierax angolensis | |
African Harrier-Hawk | 6 | 3 | Polyboroides typus | |
Bateleur | 1 | 6 | Terathopius ecaudatus | |
Hooded Vulture | 8 | 200 | Necrosyrtes monachus | |
White-headed Vulture | 1 | 1 | Trigonoceps occipitalis | |
White-backed Vulture | 2 | 4 | Gyps africanus | |
Rüppell's Vulture | 2 | 6 | Gyps rueppellii | |
Eurasian Griffon Vulture | 1 | 2 | Gyps fulvus | |
Yellow-billed Kite | 8 | 100 | Milvus parasitus | |
Western Marsh Harrier | 5 | 10 | Circus aeruginosus | |
Montagu's Harrier | 2 | 5 | Circus pygargus | |
Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle | 3 | 2 | Circaetus beaudouini | |
Short-toed Eagle | 1 | 1 | Cicaetus gallicus | |
Brown Snake-Eagle | 1 | 4 | Circaetus cinereus | |
Black-shouldered Kite | 5 | 2 | Elanus caeruleus | |
Shikra | 7 | 3 | Accipiter badius | |
Dark Chanting Goshawk | 4 | 6 | Melierax metabates | |
Lizard Buzzard | 6 | 8 | Kaupifalco monogrammicus | |
Grasshopper Buzzard | 3 | 10 | Butastur rufipennis | |
Wahlberg's Eagle | 3 | 4 | ||
Tawny Eagle | 2 | 2 | ||
Martial Eagle | 2 | 4 | Polemaetus bellicosus | |
Long-crested Eagle | 2 | 1 | Lophaetus occipitalis | |
African Hawk Eagle | 1 | 2 | Hieraaetus spilogaster | |
Common Kestrel | 3 | 1 | Falco tinnunculus | |
Lanner Falcon | 4 | 6 | Falco biarmicus | |
Grey Kestrel | 4 | 2 | Falco ardosiaceus | |
Red-necked Falcon | 1 | 2 | Falco chicquera | |
African Hobby | 2 | 1 | Falco cuvierii | |
Helmeted Guineafowl | 1 | 7 | Numida meleagris | |
Double-spurred Francolin | 7 | 5 | Francolinus bicalcaratus | |
Ahanta Francolin | 3 | 2 | (H) | Francolinus ahantensis |
Common Quail | 1 | 3 | Coturnix coturnix | |
Stone Partridge | 1 | 8 | Ptilopachus petrosus | |
Black Crake | 2 | 2 | Amaurornis flavirostra | |
Purple Swamphen | 1 | 1 | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
African Jacana | 1 | 1 | Actophilornis africana | |
Black-bellied Bustard | 1 | 1 | Lissotis melanogaster | |
Savile's Bustard | 1 | 2 | H | Lophotis savilei |
8 | 100 | Burhinus senegalensis | ||
Eurasian Oystercatcher | 2 | 1 | Haematopus ostralegus | |
Black-winged Stilt | 6 | 10 | Himantopus himantopus | |
Avocet | 1 | 10 | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
Common Snipe | 2 | 1 | Gallinago gallinago | |
Egyptian Plover | 1 | 2 | Pluvianus aegyptius | |
Collared Pratincole | 2 | 200 | Glareola pratincola | |
Black-headed Lapwing | 2 | 6 | Vanellus tectus | |
Spur-winged Lapwing | 7 | 100 | Vanellus spinosus | |
Wattled Lapwing | 7 | 50 | Vanellus senegallus | |
Ruddy Turnstone | 1 | 5 | Arenaria interpres | |
Kittlitz's Plover | 1 | 3 | Charadrius pecuarius | |
Ringed Plover | 6 | 15 | Charadrius hiaticula | |
Kentish Plover | 2 | 2 | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
Little Ringed Plover | 1 | 1 | Charadrius dubius | |
White-fronted plover | 1 | 3 | Charadrius marginatus | |
Grey Plover | 5 | 3 | Pluvialis squatarola | |
Black-tailed Godwit | 3 | 20 | Limosa limosa | |
Bar-tailed Godwit | 4 | 7 | Limosa lapponica | |
Eurasian Whimbrel | 8 | 50 | Numenius phaeopus | |
Eurasian Curlew | 1 | 1 | Numenius arquata | |
Sanderling | 2 | 3 | Calidris alba | |
Green Sandpiper | 4 | 2 | Tringa ochropus | |
Wood Sandpiper | 3 | 30 | Tringa glareola | |
Common Redshank | 4 | 5 | Tringa totanus | |
Common Greenshank | 7 | 10 | Tringa nebularia | |
Common Sandpiper | 8 | 20 | Actitis hypoleucos | |
Ruff | 2 | 30 | Philomachus pugnax | |
Pomarine Skua | 1 | 9 | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
Arctic Skua | 2 | 1 | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
Audouin's Gull | 3 | 15 | Larus audouinii | |
Kelp Gull | 2 | 4 | Larus dominicanus | |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 4 | 200 | Larus fuscus | |
Black-headed Gull | 3 | 2 | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Grey-headed Gull | 6 | 300 | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | |
Slender-billed Gull | 3 | 50 | Chroicocephalus genei | |
Little Tern | 1 | 2 | Sternula albifrons | |
Caspian Tern | 6 | 600 | Hydroprogne caspia | |
Gull-billed Tern | 5 | 30 | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
Whiskered Tern | 1 | 2 | Chlidonias hybrida | |
Black Tern | 1 | 2 | Chlidonias | |
5 | 10 | Sterna sandvicensis | ||
Royal Tern | 5 | 15 | Sterna maxima | |
Common Tern | 2 | 10 | Sterna hirundo | |
Four-banded Sandgrouse | 2 | 8 | Pterocles quadricinctus | |
Bruce's Green Pigeon | 4 | 6 | Treron waalia | |
African Green Pigeon | 1 | 10 | Treron calvus | |
Speckled Pigeon | 7 | 50 | Columba guinea | |
African Mourning Dove | 8 | 10 | Streptopelia decipiens | |
Red-eyed Dove | 8 | 50 | Streptopelia semitorquata | |
Vinaceous Dove | 8 | 10 | Streptopelia vinacea | |
Laughing Dove | 8 | 50 | Streptopelia senegalensis | |
Namaqua Dove | 4 | 50 | Oena capensis | |
Blue-spotted Wood Dove | 2 | 3 | Turtur afer | |
Black-billed Wood Dove | 6 | 10 | Turtur abyssinicus | |
Rose-ringed Parakeet | 6 | 10 | Psittacula krameri | |
5 | 7 | (H) | Poicephalus senegalus | |
Violet Turaco | 2 | 8 | Musophaga violacea | |
Green Turaco | 2 | 3 | Tauraco persa | |
Western Grey Plantain-Eater | 7 | 20 | Crinifer piscator | |
Klaas's Cuckoo | 1 | 1 | Chrysococcyx klaas | |
Great spotted Cuckoo | 1 | 1 | Clamator glandarius | |
Levaillant's Cuckoo | 1 | 1 | Clamator levaillantii | |
Yellowbill | 1 | 1 | Ceuthmochares aereus | |
7 | 6 | Centropus senegalensis | ||
Barn Owl | 1 | 1 | Tyto alba | |
Pearl-Spotted Owlet | 3 | 1 | (H) | Glaucidium perlatum |
African Scops Owl | 1 | 1 | Otus senegalensis | |
Northern White-faced Owl | 1 | 1 | Ptilopsis leucotis | |
Greyish Eagle Owl | 1 | 2 | Bubo cinerascens | |
Mottled Spinetail | 5 | 3 | Telacanthura ussheri | |
Pallid Swift | 6 | 10 | Apus pallidus | |
Little Swift | 8 | 100 | Apus affinis | |
White-rumped Swift | 1 | 1 | Apus cafer | |
African Palm Swift | 8 | 30 | Cypsiurus parvus | |
African Pygmy Kingfisher | 2 | 1 | Ceyx pictus | |
Malachite Kingfisher | 4 | 2 | Alcedo cristata | |
Pied Kingfisher | 8 | 39 | Ceryle rudis | |
Woodland Kingfisher | 4 | 2 | Halcyon senegalensis | |
Grey-headed Kingfisher | 1 | 1 | Halcyon leucocephala | |
Blue-breasted Kingfisher | 3 | 1 | Halcyon malimbica | |
Striped Kingfisher | 3 | 2 | Halcyon chelicuti | |
Giant Kingfisher | 2 | 2 | Megaceryle maxima | |
European Bee-eater | 3 | 100 | Merops apiaster | |
Northern Carmine Bee-eater | 2 | 6 | Merops nubicus | |
Little Bee-eater | 7 | 20 | Merops pusillus | |
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | 3 | 2 | Merops hirundineus | |
White-throated Bee-eater | 1 | 20 | Merops albicollis | |
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | 1 | 10 | Merops persicus | |
Little Green Bee-eater | 1 | 2 | Merops orientalis | |
Broad-billed Roller | 7 | 6 | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
Rufous-crowned Roller | 2 | 2 | Coracias naevius | |
Blue-bellied Roller | 6 | 10 | Coracias cyanogaster | |
Abyssinian Roller | 4 | 20 | Coracias abyssinicus | |
Green Wood Hoopoe | 6 | 10 | Phoeniculus purpureus | |
Black Scimitar-bill | 4 | 2 | Rhinopomastus aterrimus | |
Red-billed Hornbill | 8 | 20 | Tockus erythrorhynchus | |
African Pied Hornbill | 1 | 3 | Tockus fasciatus | |
African Grey Hornbill | 7 | 20 | Tockus nasutus | |
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird | 5 | 3 | Pogoniulus chrysoconus | |
Bearded Barbet | 5 | 5 | Lybius dubius | |
Vieillot's Barbet | 5 | 3 | Lybius vieilloti | |
Greater Honeyguide | 1 | 1 | Indicator indicator | |
Fine-spotted Woodpecker | 2 | 1 | Campethera punctuligera | |
Buff-spotted Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | Campethera nivosa | |
Brown-backed Woodpecker | 3 | 2 | Dendropicos obsoletus | |
Grey Woodpecker | 4 | 2 | Dendropicos goertae | |
Crested Lark | 1 | 2 | Galerida cristata | |
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark | 1 | 5 | Eremopterix leucotis | |
Sand Martin | 2 | 1 | Riparia riparia | |
Red-chested Swallow | 5 | 30 | Hirundo lucida | |
Wire-tailed Swallow | 4 | 5 | Hirundo smithii | |
West African' Red-rumped Swallow | 4 | 30 | Hirundo daurica domicella | |
Mosque Swallow | 2 | 5 | Hirundo senegalensis | |
Rufous-chested Swallow | 2 | 10 | Hirundo semirufa | |
Pied-winged Swallow | 2 | 2 | Hirundo leucosoma | |
House Martin | 3 | 10 | Delichon urbicum | |
Fanti Saw-wing | 2 | 2 | Psalidoprocne obscura | |
Tree Pipit | 1 | 3 | Anthus trivialis | |
Yellow Wagtail | 4 | 30 | Motacilla flava | |
White Wagtail | 2 | 5 | Motacilla alba | |
Red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike | 1 | 1 | Campephaga phoenicea | |
Common Bulbul | 8 | 20 | Pycnonotus barbatus | |
Yellow-throated Leaflove | 1 | 3 | Chlorocichla flavicollis | |
Little Greenbul | 2 | 5 | Andropadus virens | |
Grey-headed Bristlebill | 1 | 1 | Bleda canicapilla | |
African Thrush | 4 | 10 | Turdus pelios | |
White-crowned Robin Chat | 1 | 2 | Cossypha albicapilla | |
Snowy-crowned Robin Chat | 2 | 5 | Cossypha niveicapilla | |
Northern Wheatear | 1 | 2 | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
Whinchat | 1 | 1 | Saxicola rubetra | |
White-fronted Black Chat | 1 | 2 | Myrmecocichla albifrons | |
Northern Anteater Chat | 1 | 4 | Myrmecocichla aethiops | |
Sedge Warbler | 1 | 10 | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
Reed Warbler | 2 | 1 | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
Western Olivaceous Warbler | 1 | 2 | Hippolais opaca | |
Melodious Warbler | 3 | 10 | Hippolais polyglotta | |
Common Whitethroat | 3 | 2 | Sylvia communis | |
Subalpine Warbler | 6 | 2 | Sylvia cantillans | |
Chiffchaff | 2 | 2 | Phylloscopus collybita | |
Green Hylia | 1 | 1 | Hylia prasina | |
5 | 2 | Eremomela pusilla | ||
1 | 2 | Sylvietta brachyura | ||
Green Crombec | 1 | 1 | Sylvietta virens | |
Oriole Warbler | 2 | 4 | Hypergerus atriceps | |
Yellow-bellied Hyliota | 1 | 2 | Hyliota flavigaster | |
Grey-backed Camaroptera | 4 | 2 | Camaroptera brachyura | |
Tawny-flanked Prinia | 6 | 5 | Prinia subflava | |
Red-winged Warbler | 2 | 2 | Heliolais erythropterus | |
Yellow-breasted Apalis | 2 | 2 | Apalis flavida | |
Zitting Cisticola | 2 | 1 | Cisticola juncidis | |
Whistling Cisticola | 2 | 2 | Cisticola lateralis | |
Singing Cisticola | 4 | 2 | Cisticola cantans | |
Northern Black Flycatcher | 1 | 2 | Melaenornis edolioides | |
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher | 3 | 2 | Terpsiphone rufiventer | |
African Blue Flycatcher | 1 | 1 | H | Elminia longicauda |
1 | 1 | Batis senegalensis | ||
Common Wattle-eye | 2 | 5 | Platysteira cyanea | |
Blackcap Babbler | 5 | 6 | Turdoides reinwardtii | |
Brown Babbler | 5 | 6 | Turdoides plebejus | |
White-shouldered Black Tit | 2 | 4 | Parus guineensis | |
Yellow Penduline Tit | 1 | 2 | Anthoscopus parvulus | |
Yellow White-eye | 1 | 2 | Zosterops senegalensis | |
Mouse-brown Sunbird | 1 | 10 | Anthreptes gabonicus | |
Pygmy Sunbird | 2 | 4 | Anthreptes platurus | |
Collared Sunbird | 1 | 1 | Anthreptes collaris | |
Scarlet-chested Sunbird | 2 | 4 | Chalcomitra senegalensis | |
Variable Sunbird | 2 | 3 | Cinnyris venustus | |
Copper Sunbird | 1 | 3 | Cinnyris cupreus | |
Splendid Sunbird | 3 | 5 | Cinnyris coccinigastrus | |
Beautiful Sunbird | 6 | 10 | Cinnyris pulchellus | |
Woodchat Shrike | 3 | 4 | Lanius senator | |
Yellow-billed Shrike | 4 | 20 | Corvinella corvina | |
White Helmet-shrike | 3 | 8 | Prionops plumatus | |
Sulphur-breasted Bush-shrike | 1 | 1 | Malaconotus sulfureopectus | |
Grey-headed Bush-shrike | 1 | 2 | Malaconotus blanchoti | |
3 | 2 | Dryoscopus gambensis | ||
Yellow-crowned Gonolek | 8 | 10 | Laniarius barbarus | |
Brubru | 2 | 1 | Nilaus afer | |
Black-crowned Tchagra | 5 | 4 | Tchagra senegalus | |
African Golden Oriole | 4 | 2 | Oriolus auratus | |
Fork-tailed Drongo | 5 | 5 | Dicrurus adsimilis | |
Piapiac | 7 | 20 | Ptilostomus afer | |
Pied Crow | 8 | 30 | Corvus albus | |
Yellow-billed Oxpecker | 2 | 10 | Buphagus africanus | |
Chestnut-bellied Starling | 1 | 1 | Lamprotornis pulcher | |
Purple Glossy Starling | 5 | 10 | Lamprotornis purpureus | |
Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling | 3 | 1 | Lamprotornis chalcurus | |
Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling | 3 | 1 | Lamprotornis chalybaeus | |
Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling | 3 | 1 | Lamprotornis chloropterus | |
Long-tailed Glossy Starling | 8 | 20 | Lamprotornis caudatus | |
House Sparrow | 5 | 7 | Passer domesticus | |
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow | 8 | 10 | Passer griseus | |
1 | 2 | Passer luteus | ||
Bush Petronia | 2 | 20 | Petronia dentata | |
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver | 3 | 4 | Plocepasser superciliosus | |
Little Weaver | 1 | 1 | Ploceus luteolus | |
Vitelline Masked Weaver | 2 | 2 | Ploceus vitellinus | |
Village Weaver | 8 | 300 | Ploceus cucullatus | |
Black-headed Weaver | 1 | 2 | Ploceus melanocephalus | |
Black-necked Weaver | 3 | 5 | Ploceus nigricollis | |
White-billed Buffalo-weaver | 6 | 30 | Bubalornis albirostris | |
Red-billed Quelea | 1 | 200 | Quelea quelea | |
Black-winged Red Bishop | 1 | 3 | Euplectes hordeaceus | |
Northern Red Bishop | 4 | 10 | Euplectes franciscanus | |
Yellow-crowned Bishop | 1 | 10 | Euplectes afer | |
Western Bluebill | 1 | 6 | Spermophaga haematina | |
Orange-cheeked Waxbill | 2 | 2 | Estrilda melpoda | |
Lavender Waxbill | 3 | 4 | Estrilda caerulescens | |
Black-rumped Waxbill | 1 | 2 | Estrilda troglodytes | |
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu | 7 | 10 | Uraeginthus bengalus | |
Black-faced Quail-Finch | 1 | 4 | Ortygospiza atricollis | |
Red-billed Firefinch | 6 | 5 | Lagonosticta senegala | |
Cut-throat Finch | 1 | 2 | Amadina fasciata | |
African Silverbill | 1 | 6 | Euodice cantans | |
Bronze Mannikin | 5 | 20 | Spermestes cucullata | |
Pin-tailed Whydah | 1 | 1 | Vidua macroura | |
Exclamatory | 1 | 5 | Vidua interjecta | |
Village Indigobird | 2 | 3 | Vidua chalybeata | |
Yellow-fronted Canary | 5 | 20 | Serinus mozambicus | |
Brown-rumped Bunting | 1 | 1 | Emberiza affinis | |
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | 1 | 4 | Emberiza tahapisi |
