Bird Species in Africa

Discover 302 bird species in Africa

Total Species

302

Recently Added

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By Family

Accentors African Barbets Albatrosses Auks Avocets and Stilts Barn Owls Bee-eaters Bush Warblers Bustards Cormorants Cranes Crows and Jays Cuckoos Dippers Drongos Ducks, Geese and Swans Falcons and Caracaras Finches Flamingos Gannets and Boobies Grasshopper-warblers and Grassbirds Grebes Gulls, Terns and Skimmers Hawks and Eagles Herons Hoopoes Ibises and Spoonbills Jacanas Kingfishers Kinglets and Firecrests Larks Leaf Warblers Nightjars Northern Storm-petrels Nuthatches Old World Buntings Old World Flycatchers and Chats Old World Orioles Old World Sparrows Old World Warblers Osprey Ostriches Oystercatchers Parrots Penguins Petrels and Shearwaters Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys and Grouse Pigeons and Doves Pipits and Wagtails Plovers Rails, Gallinules and Coots Reed Warblers Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes Secretarybird Shoebill Shrikes Skuas Starlings Swallows and Martins Swifts Thick-knees Thrushes Tits and Chickadees Treecreepers Typical Owls Waxbills Weavers Woodpeckers Wrens

Featured Birds

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Monticola saxatilis

Magpie Shrike

Urolestes melanoleucus

White-bellied Bustard

Eupodotis senegalensis

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Algeria

DZ

244 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Squacco Heron

Red-throated Loon

Angola

AO

102 Species

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Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Pale-winged Starling

Benin

BJ

105 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Botswana

BW

96 Species

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Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Pale-winged Starling

Burkina Faso flag

Burkina Faso

BF

100 Species

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White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Fork-tailed Drongo

Burundi

BI

91 Species

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Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Spur-winged Goose

Cameroon

CM

134 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Cape Verde flag

Cape Verde

CV

91 Species

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Squacco Heron

Great Blue Heron

Egyptian Vulture

Central African Republic flag

Central African Republic

CF

94 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Chad

TD

123 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Comoros

KM

47 Species

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Squacco Heron

Pied Crow

Eleonora's Falcon

Congo

CG

75 Species

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White-bellied Bustard

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Côte D'Ivoire flag

Côte D'Ivoire

CI

126 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Democratic Republic of the Congo flag

Democratic Republic of the Congo

CD

123 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Djibouti

DJ

117 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Fork-tailed Drongo

Squacco Heron

Egypt

EG

231 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Red-breasted Goose

Desert Finch

Equatorial Guinea flag

Equatorial Guinea

GQ

58 Species

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Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Spur-winged Goose

Eritrea

ER

131 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Eswatini

SZ

73 Species

Recently Added

Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Fork-tailed Drongo

Ethiopia

ET

149 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Gabon

GA

89 Species

Recently Added

White-bellied Bustard

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Gambia

GM

145 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Ghana

GH

131 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Guinea

GN

117 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Fork-tailed Drongo

Guinea-Bissau flag

Guinea-Bissau

GW

112 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Little Weaver

Fork-tailed Drongo

Kenya

KE

148 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Lesotho

LS

63 Species

Recently Added

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Spur-winged Goose

Liberia

LR

116 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Lesser Striped Swallow

Lavender Waxbill

Libya

LY

202 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Desert Finch

Squacco Heron

Madagascar flag

Madagascar

MG

48 Species

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Lesser Striped Swallow

Squacco Heron

Wandering Albatross

Malawi

MW

89 Species

Recently Added

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Spur-winged Goose

Mali

ML

135 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Mauritania flag

Mauritania

MR

175 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Mauritius

MU

33 Species

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Squacco Heron

Wandering Albatross

Pied Crow

Mayotte

YT

31 Species

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Squacco Heron

Pied Crow

Eleonora's Falcon

Morocco

MA

252 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Spur-winged Goose

Squacco Heron

Mozambique flag

Mozambique

MZ

93 Species

Recently Added

Magpie Shrike

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Namibia

NA

103 Species

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Magpie Shrike

Pale-winged Starling

Fork-tailed Drongo

Niger

NE

128 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Nigeria

NG

149 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Réunion

RE

22 Species

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Wandering Albatross

Scaly-breasted Munia

Eleonora's Falcon

Rwanda

RW

97 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha flag

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

SH

35 Species

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Macaroni Penguin

Chinstrap Penguin

King Penguin

Sao Tome and Principe flag

Sao Tome and Principe

ST

39 Species

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Lesser Striped Swallow

Grey Parrot

Greater Flamingo

Senegal

SN

166 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Seychelles flag

Seychelles

SC

92 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Squacco Heron

Pied Crow

Sierra Leone flag

Sierra Leone

SL

114 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Lesser Striped Swallow

Spur-winged Goose

Somalia

SO

130 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Fork-tailed Drongo

South Africa flag

South Africa

ZA

125 Species

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Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Pale-winged Starling

South Sudan flag

South Sudan

SS

113 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Sudan

SD

164 Species

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Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Tanzania

TZ

126 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Togo

TG

111 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Tunisia

TN

232 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Squacco Heron

Red-throated Loon

Uganda

UG

124 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

White-bellied Bustard

Little Weaver

Western Sahara flag

Western Sahara

EH

113 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Squacco Heron

Lanner Falcon

Zambia

ZM

102 Species

Recently Added

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Magpie Shrike

White-bellied Bustard

Zimbabwe

ZW

95 Species

Recently Added

Magpie Shrike

Fork-tailed Drongo

Lesser Striped Swallow