List of Birds of Zimbabwe

Abbott’s starling
Abdi’s stork
Aberdare cisticola
Abyssinian crimsoning
Abyssinian ground thrush
Abyssinian ground-hornbill
Abyssinian nightjar
Abyssinian owl
Abyssinian roller
Abyssinian scimitarbill
Abyssinian thrush
Abyssinian wheatear
African barred owlet
African black duck
African black-headed oriole
African blue flycatcher
African broadbill
African citril
African crake
African crested flycatcher
African cuckoo
African cuckoo-hawk
African darter
African dusky flycatcher
African emerald cuckoo
African finfoot
African firefinch
African fish-eagle
African golden oriole
African goshawk
African grass-owl
African gray flycatcher
African gray hornbill
African gray parrot
African gray woodpecker
African green-pigeon
African harrier hawk
African hawk-eagle
African hill babbler
African hobby
African jacana
African marsh harrier
African openbill
African palm swift
African paradise flycatcher
African penduline tit
African pied wagtail
African pipit
African pitta
African pygmy-goose
African pygmy-kingfisher
African rail
African reed warbler
African sacred ibis
African scops-owl
African shrike flycatcher
African silver bill
African skimmer
African snipe
African spoonbill
African stonechat
African swamphen
African swift
African thrush
African wood owl
African yellow warbler
African yellow white-eye
African-bare-eyed thrush
African-golden-weaver
Allen’s gallinule
Alpine swift
Amani sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Amur falcon
Angola swallow
Ansorge’s greenbul
Antarctic prion

Arabian bustard
Arrow-marked babbler
Ashy cisticola
Ashy flycatcher
Ashy starling
Augur buzzard
Ayres’s hawk-eagle
Baglafecht weaver
Bailon’s crake
Banded martin
Banded parisoma
Banded prinia
Banded snake-eagle
Bank swallow
Bar-breasted firefinch
Bare-faced go-away-bird
Barn owl
Barn swallow
Barred long-tailed cuckoo
Barred warbler
Bar-tailed godwit
Bar-tailed trogon
Bar-throated apalis
Basra reed warbler
Bat hawk
Bateleur
Bat-like spinetail
Bearded scrub-robin
Bearded vulture
Bearded woodpecker
Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
Beautiful sunbird
Black bishop
Black coucal
Black crake
Black cuckoo
Black cuckoo shrike
Black goshawk
Black heron
Black kite
Black sawwing
Black stork
Black tern
Black-and- white shrike flycatcher
Black-and white-casqued -hornbill
Black-and-white mannikin
Black-backed cisticola
Black-backed puffback
Black-bellied firefinch
Black-bellied plover
Black-bellied seed cracker
Black-bellied starling
Black-bellied storm petrel
Black-bellied sunbird
Black-billed barbet
Black-billed turaco
Black-billed weaver
Black-billed wood hoopoe
Black-capped social-weaver
Black-cheeked waxbill
Black-chested snake-eagle
Black-collared apalis
Black-collared barbet
Black-crowned crane
Black-crowned night-heron
Black-crowned tchagra
Black-crowned waxbill
Black-eared wheatear
Black-faced rufous warbler
Black-faced sand grouse
Black-faced waxbill
Black-fronted bushshrike
Black-fronted francolin
Black-headed apalis
Black-headed gonolek
Black-headed gull
Black-headed heron

Black-headed lapwing
Black-headed paradise flycatcher
Black-headed weaver
Black-headed wood hoopoe
Black-lored babbler
Black-necked weaver
Black-rumped buttonquail
Black-rumped waxbill
Black-shouldered nightjar
Blacksmith lapwing
Black-tailed godwit
Black-tailed oriole
Black-throated apalis
Black-throated barbet
Black-throated canary
Black-throated wattle-eye
Black-winged bishop
Black-winged kite
Black-winged lapwing
Black-winged pranticole
Black-winged stilt
Blue malkoha
Blue quail
Blue-breasted bee-eater
Blue-breasted kingfisher
Blue-capped cordonbleu
Blue-cheeked bee-eater
Blue-headed bee-eater
Blue-headed coucal
Blue-napped mouse bird
Blue-shouldered robin-chat
Blue-spotted wood-dove
Booted eagle
Boran cisticola
Bridled tern
Brimstone canary
Bristle-crowned starling
Broad-billed roller
Broad-billed sandpiper
Broad-tailed paradise-whydah
Bronze mannikin
Bronze sunbird
Bronze-tailed starling
Bronze-winged courser
Brow-chested alethe
Brow-headed parrot
Brown babbler
Brown booby
Brown illadopsis
Brown noddy
Brown parisoma
Brown shrike
Brown skua
Brown snake eagle
Brown twinspot
Brown woodland-warbler
Brown-backed scrub-robin
Brown-backed woodpecker
Brown-breasted barbet
Brown-capped weaver
Brown-chested lapwing
Brown-crowned tchagra
Brown-eared woodpecker
Brown-headed apalis
Brown-hooded kingfisher
Brown-necked raven
Brown-tailed chat
Brown-throated wattle-eye
Brow-rumped bunting
Brubru
Bruce’s green pigeon
Buff-bellied warbler
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Buff-spotted flufftail
Buff-spotted woodpecker
Buff-throated apalis
Buffy pipit

Bush pipit
Cabanis’s greenbul
Cape crow
Cape eagle-owl
Cape petrel
Cape robin-chat
Cape teal
Cape wagtail
Capped wheatear
Cardinal quelea
Cardinal woodpecker
Carruther’s cisticola
Caspian plover
Caspian tern
Cassin’s hawk-eagle
Cassin’s honeyguide
Cattle egret
Chapin’s flycatcher
Chestnut sparrow
Chestnut wattle-eye
Chestnut weaver
Chestnut-backed sparrow-tit
Chestnut-banded plover
Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
Chestnut-fronted helmet shrike
Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark
Chestnut-throated apalis
Chinspot batis
Chubb’s cisticola
Cinnamon-bracken warbler
Cinnamon-breasted bunting
Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
Clark’s weaver
Coastal boubou
Coastal cisticola
Collared flycatcher
Collared lark
Collared palm-thrush
Collared pranticole
Collared sunbird
Common bulbul
Common buzzard
Common chiffchaff
Common crane
Common cuckoo
Common grasshopper-warbler
Common greenshank
Common house-martin
Common nightingale
Common ostrich
Common pochard
Common quail
Common redshank
Common redstart
Common sandpiper
Common scimitarbill
Common snipe
Common square-tailed drongo
Common swift
Common tern
Common waxbill
Common-ringed plover
Compact weaver
Copper sunbird
Coqui francolin
Corn crake
Crab-plover
Cream-colored courser
Crested francolin
Crested guineafowl
Crested lark
Crimson-rumped waxbill
Croaking cisticola
Crowned eagle
Crowned hornbill
Crowned lapwing

Curlew sandpiper
Cut-throat
D’arnaud’s barbet
Dark chanting gosh-hawk
Delegorgue’s pigeon
Demoiselle crane
Denham’s bustard
Desert cisticola
Desert wheatear
Dickinson’s kestrel
Dideric cuckoo
Doherty’s bushshrike
Donaldson smith’s sparrow-weaver
Donaldson-smith’s nightjar
Double-banded courser
Double-toothed barbet
Dunlin
Dusky crested-flycatcher
Dusky tit
Dusky turtle-dove
Dwarf bittern
Eared grebe
East coast akalat
Eastern black-headed batis
Eastern double-collared sunbird
Eastern mountain greenbul
Eastern nicator
Eastern olivaceous warbler
Eastern paradise whydah
Eastern plantain eater
Eastern violet-backed sunbird
Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
Eastern-chanting-goshawk
Egyptian goose
Egyptian vulture
Eleonora’s falcon
Emerald-spotted wood-dove
Equatorial akalat
Ethiopian boubou
Ethiopian swallow
Eurasian blackcap
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian golden oriole
Eurasian griffon
Eurasian hobby
Eurasian hoopoe
Eurasian kestrel
Eurasian marsh harrier
Eurasian moorhen
Eurasian nightjar
Eurasian oyestercatcher
Eurasian scops-owl
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian thick-knee
Eurasian wigeon
Eurasian wryneck
Eurasian-reed warbler
European bee-eater
European honey-buzzard
European pied flycatcher
European roller
European turtle-dove
Evergreen forest warbler
Familiar chat
Fan-tailed grassbird
Fan-tailed raven
Fan-tailed widowbird
Fasciated snake-eagle
Fawn-breasted waxbill
Ferruginous duck
Fiery-necked nightjar
Fire-fronted bishop
Fischer’s greenbul
Fischer’s lovebird
Fischer’s sparrow lark
Fischer’s starling

Fischer’s turaco
Flappet lark
Forbes-watson’s swift
Forest robin
Forest weaver
Forest wood hoopoe
Fork-tailed drongo
Four-banded sandgrouse
Four-colored bushshrike
Fox kestrel
Foxy cisticola
Foxy lark
Freckled nightjar
Friedmann’s lark
Fulvous whistling-duck
Gabar goshawk
Gadwall
Gambaga flycatcher
Garden warbler
Garganey
Giant kingfisher
Gillet’s lark
Glossy ibis
Glossy-backed drongo
Golden pipit
Golden-backed weaver
Golden-breasted bunting
Golden-breasted starling
Golden-crowned woodpecker
Golden-palm weaver
Golden-tailed woodpecker
Golden-winged sunbird
Goliath heron
Grasshopper buzzard
Gray apalis
Gray heron
Gray kestrel
Gray wagtail
Gray-backed fiscal
Gray-capped warbler
Gray-chested babbler
Gray-crested helmet shrike
Gray-crowned crane
Gray-green bushshrike
Gray-greenbul
Gray-headed batis
Gray-headed bushshrike
Gray-headed kingfisher
Gray-headed nigrita
Gray-headed silver bird
Gray-headed social-weaver
Gray-hooded gull
Grayish eagle-owl
Gray-olive greenbul
Gray-rumped swallow
Gray-throated barbet
Gray-tit flycatcher
Gray-winged robin-chat
Gray-wren warbler
Great bittern
Great cormorant
Great crested grebe
Great egret
Great reed warbler
Great snipe
Great white pelican
Great-blue turaco
Great-crested tern
Greater
Greater blue-eared starling
Greater flamingo
Greater honeyguide
Greater painted-snipe
Greater sand plover
Greater spotted eagle
Greater swamp warbler
Greater whitethroat

Great-spotted cuckoo
Green barbet
Green bee-eater
Green crombec
Green hylia
Green malkoha
Green sandpiper
Green sunbird
Green tinkerbird
Green wood hoopoe
Green-backed camaroptera
Green-backed eremomela
Green-backed honeyguide
Green-backed twinspot
Green-backed woodpecker
Greencap eremomela
Green-headed oriole
Green-headed sunbird
Green-throated brown sunbird
Green-winged pytilia
Green-winged teal
Grosbeak weaver
Gull-billed tern
Hadada ibis
Hairy-breasted barbet
Half-collared kingfisher
Hamerkop
Harlequin quail
Hartlaub’s bustard
Hartlaub’s turaco
Helmeted guineafowl
Hemprich’s hornbill
Heuglin’s bustard
Heuglin’s masked weaver
Heuglin’s wheatear
Heuglin’s white-eye
Hildebrandt’s francolin
Hildebrandt’s starling
Hinde’s pied babbler
Holub’s golden weaver
Honeyguide greenbul
Hooded vulture
Horus swift
Hottentot
House crow
House sparrow
Hunter’s cisticola
Hunter’s sunbird
Icterine warbler
Imperial eagle
Indian silver bill
Intermediate egret
Iouanin’s petrel
Isabelline shrike
Isabelline wheatear
Jack snipe
Jackson’s francolin
Jackson’s hornbill
Jackson’s widowbird
Jameson’s firefinch
Jameson’s wattle-eye
Joyful greenbul
Kandt’s waxbill
Karamoja apalis
Kelp gull
Kenrick’s starling
Kentish plover
Kenya rufous sparrow
Kestrel
Kikuyu white-eye
Kittlitz’s plover
Klaas’s cuckoo
Knob-billed duck
Kori bustard
Lanner falcon
Lappet-faced vulture
Laughing dove

Lesser jacana
Lesser kestrel
Lesser masked-weaver
Lesser moorhen
Lesser sand-plover
Lesser seed cracker
Lesser swamp warbler
Lesser-gray shrike
Lesser-spotted eagle
Levaillant’s cisticola
Levallant’s cuckoo
Levant sparrow hawk
Lilac-breasted roller
Lilian’s love bird
Little bee-eater
Little bittern
Little egret
Little grebe
Little green sunbird
Little greenbul
Little ringed plover
Little rock thrush
Little sparrow hawk
Little stint
Little swift
Little tern
Little weaver
Little-rush warbler
Livingstone’s flycatcher
Livingstone’s turaco
Lizard buzzard
Locustfinch
Long-billed pipit
Long-billed tailor bird
Long-crested eagle
Long-legged buzzard
Long-tailed cormorant
Long-tailed fiscal
Long-tailed jaeger
Long-toed lapwing
Loveridge’s sunbird
Luhder’s bush shrike
Maccoa duck
Mackinnon’s shrike
Madagascar bee-eater
Madagascar cuckoo
Madagascar pond-heron
Madagascar pratincole
Magpie manikin
Magpie shrike
Magpie starling
Malachite kingfisher
Malachite sunbird
Mangrove kingfisher
Marabou stork
Mariqua sunbird
Marsh owl
Marsh sandpiper
Marsh tchagra
Marsh warbler
Marsh widowbird
Martial eagle
Mascarene martin
Masked apalis
Masked booby
Masked shrike
Mbulu white-eye
Meyer’s parrot
Miombo barbet
Miombo rock thrush
Miombo scrub-robin
Miombo tit
Miombo wren-warbler
Mocking cliff-chat
Mombasa woodpecker
Montagu’s harrier
Montane-blue swallow

Moorland chat
Moreau’s sunbird
Mosque swallow
Mottled spinetail
Mottled swift
Mountain buzzard
Mountain gray woodpecker
Mountain wagtail
Mountain-yellow warbler
Mourning collard-dove
Mourning wheatear
Mouse-collard penduline- tit
Mouse-colored sunbird
Moustached grass-warbler
Moustached tinker bird
Mrs. Moreau’s warbler
Namaqua dove
Narina trogon
Northern anteater chat
Northern black-flycatcher
Northern brownbul
Northern brown-throated weaver
Northern -carmine bee-eater
Northern crombec
Northern fiscal
Northern pied-babbler
Northern pintail
Northern red-billed hornbill
Northern shoveler
Northern wheatear
Northern-gray headed sparrow
Nubian woodpecker
Nyanza swift
Olive bellied sunbird
Olive ibis
Olive sunbird
Olive tree-warbler
Olive woodpecker
Olive woodpecker
Olive-flanked robin chat
Olive-green camoroptera
Olive-headed weaver
Orange ground thrush
Orange tufted sunbird
Orange weaver
Orange-winged pytilia
Oriental honey-buzzard
Oriole finch
Osprey
Oustalet’s sunbird
Ovambo sparrow hawk
Pacific golden-plover
Pale batis
Pale flycatcher
Pale prinia
Pale white-eye
Pale-billed hornbill
Pale-crown cisticola
Pale-crowned cisticola
Pallid harrier
Pallid honey guide
Pallid swift
Palm-nut vulture
Pangani longclaw
Papyrus canary
Papyrus gonolek
Parasitic weaver
Parrot-billed sparrow
Pearl spotted-owlet
Pearl-breasted swallow
Pectoral-patch cisticola
Pel’s fishing-owl
Pemba scops -owl
Pemba sunbird
Pemba white-eye
Pemba-green pigeon
Pennant-winged nightjar

Leach’s storm petrel
Least honeyguide
Lemon dove
Lesser black-backed gull
Lesser blue-eared starling
Lesser crested tern
Lesser cuckoo
Lesser flamingo
Lesser frigatebird
Lesser gray shrike
Lesser honeyguide
Lesser jacana
Lesser kestrel
Lesser masked weaver
Lesser moorhen
Lesser noddy
Lesser sand plover
Lesser spotted eagle
Lesser swamp warbler
Lesser whitethroat
Lesser-striped swallow
Levaillant’s cisticola
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Levant sparrow hawk
Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
Lilac-breasted roller
Little bee-eater
Little bittern
Little crake
Little egret
Little grebe
Little greenbul
Little ringed plover
Little rock-thrush
Little rush warbler
Little sparrowhawk
Little stint
Little swift
Little tern
Little weaver
Lizard buzzard
Locust finch
Long-billed pipit
Long-crested eagle
Long-legged buzzard
Long-tailed cormorant
Long-tailed fiscal
Long-tailed jaeger
Long-tailed nightjar
Long-tailed widowbird
Long-toed lapwing
Long-toed stint
Lowland sooty boubou
Luhder’s bush shrike
Maccoa duck
Mackinnon’s shrike
Madagascar bee-eater
Madagascar cuckoo
Madagascar pond heron
Madagascar pranticole
Magpie mannikin
Magpie shrike
Magpie starling
Malachite kingfisher
Malachite sunbird
Malindi pipit
Mallard
Mangrove kingfisher
Marabou stork
Mariqua sunbird
Marsh owl
Marsh sandpiper
Marsh tchagra
Marsh warbler
Marsh widowbird
Martial eagle
Mascarene martin

Masked booby
Masked lark
Masked shrike
Matsudaira’s storm petrel
Mbulu white-eye
Mediteranean gull
Melodious warbler
Meyer’s parrot
Miombo wren warbler
Mocking cliff-chat
Mombasa woodpecker
Montagu’s harrier
Montane-blue swallow
Mooreland francolin
Moorland chat
Mosque swallow
Mottled spintail
Mottled swift
Mountain buzzard
Mountain illadopsis
Mountain wagtail
Mountain yellow warbler
Mountain-gray woodpecker
Mourning collared-dove
Mourning wheatear
Mouse-colored penduline-tit
Moustached grass-warbler
Moustached tinkerbird
Namaqua dove
Narina trogon
Northern anteater-chat
Northern black fly-catcher
Northern brownbul
Northern brown-throated weaver
Northern carmine bee-eater
Northern crombec
Northern double-collared sunbird
Northern fiscal
Northern gray-headed sparrow
Northern grosebeak-canary
Northern lapwing
Northern masked weaver
Northern pied babbler
Northern pintail
Northern puffback
Northern red bishop
Northern red-billed hornbill
Northern shoveler
Northern wheatear
Northern white-faced owl
Nubian nightjar
Nubian woodpecker
Nyanza swift
Olive bellied sunbird
Olive ibis
Olive-green camaroptera
Olive-tree warbler
Orange ground thrush
Orange weaver
Orange-tufted sunbird
Orange-winged pytilia
Oriole finch
Ortolan bunting
Osprey
Ovambo sparrowhawk
Pacific golden plover
Pale batis
Pale flycatcher
Pale prinia
Pale white-eye
Pale-breasted illadopsis
Pallas’s gull
Pallid harrier
Pallid honeyguide
Pallid swift
Palm-nut vulture
Pangani longclaw

Papyrus canary
Papyrus gonolek
Papyrus yellow-warbler
Parasitic jaeger
Parasitic weaver
Parrot-billed sparrow
Pearl-spotted owlet
Pectoral sandpiper
Pectoral-patch cisticola
Pel’s fishing owl
Pennant-winged nightjar
Peregrine falcon
Persian shearwater
Peters’s twinspot
Petit’s cuckoo shrike
Piapiac
Pied avocet
Pied crow
Pied cuckoo
Pied kingfisher
Pied wheatear
Pink-backed pelican
Pink-breasted lark
Pink-footed puffback
Pin-tailed snipe
Pin-tailed whydah
Plain greenbul
Plain martin
Plain nightjar
Plain-backed pipit
Plain-backed sunbird
Pomarine jaeger
Pringle’s puffback
Purple grenadier
Purple heron
Purple indigobird
Purple starling
Purple-banded sunbird
Purple-crested turaco
Purple-headed starling
Purple-throated cuckoo shrike
Pygmy batis
Pygmy falcon
Pygmy sunbird
Quail finch
Quail-plover
Rameron pigeon
Rattling cisticola
Red knot
Red phalarope
Red-backed scrub-robin
Red-backed shrike
Red-bellied parrot
Red-billed buffalo-weaver
Red-billed duck
Red-billed firefinch
Red-billed ox-pecker
Red-billed quelea
Red-capped lark
Red-capped robin-chat
Red-cheeked cordonbleu
Red-chested cuckoo
Red-chested flufftail
Red-chested owlet
Red-chested sunbird
Red-collared widowbird
Red-eyed dove
Red-faced cisticola
Red-faced crombec
Red-footed booby
Red-footed falcon
Red-fronted barbet
Red-fronted parrot
Red-fronted prinia
Red-fronted tinkerbird
Red-headed bluebill
Red-headed lovebird

Red-headed malimbe
Red-headed quelea
Red-headed weaver
Red-knobbed coot
Red-napped bush shrike
Red-necked falcon
Red-necked francolin
Red-necked phalarope
Red-necked stint
Red-pate cisticola
Red-rumped swallow
Red-shouldered cuckoo shrike
Red-tailed ant-thrush
Red-tailed bristlebill
Red-tailed shrike
Red-tailed tropicbird
Red-throated pipit
Red-throated tit
Red-tufted sunbird
Red-winged francolin
Red-winged lark
Red-winged prinia
Red-winged starling
Reichard’s seedeater
Reichenow’s seedeater
Retz’s helmet shrike
Ring-necked dove
River prinia
River warbler
Rock kestrel
Rock martin
Rock pigeon
Rock pranticole
Rock-loving cisticola
Roseate tern
Ross’s turaco
Rosy-patched bushshrike
Rosy-throated longclaw
Ruddy shelduck
Ruddy turnstone
Ruff
Rufous chatterer
Rufous-bellied heron
Rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
Rufous-chested swallow
Rufous-crowned roller
Rufous-napped lark
Rufous-necked wryneck
Rufous-tailed rock thrush
Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
Rufous-tailed weaver
Ruppell’s griffon
Ruppell’s robin-chat
Ruppell’s starling
Ruppell’s weaver
Sabine’s spinetail
Saddle-billed stork
Saker falcon
Salvadori’s weaver
Sanderling
Sandwich tern
Saunder’s tern
Savi’s warbler
Scaly babbler
Scaly chatterer
Scaly francolin
Scaly-breasted illadopsis
Scaly-throated honeyguide
Scarce swift
Scarlet-chested sunbird
Schalow’s turaco
Scissor-tailed kite
Secretary bird
Sedge warbler
Semi-collared flycatcher
Senegal coucal
Senegal lapwing

Senegal thick-knee
Sharpe’s longclaw
Sharpe’s starling
Shelley’s francolin
Shelley’s greenbul
Shelley’s rufous sparrow
Shelley’s starling
Shikra
Shining sunbird
Shining-blue kingfisher
Shoebill stork
Short-eared owl
Short-tailed batis
Short-tailed lark
Short-toed snake-eagle
Siffling cisticola
Silverbird
Silvery-cheeked hornbill
Singing bushlark
Singing cisticola
Slate-colored boubou
Slender-billed greenbul
Slender-billed gull
Slender-billed prion
Slender-billed starling
Slender-billed weaver
Slender-tailed nightjar
Small buttonquail
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Sokoke pipit
Sokoke scops-owl
Somali bee-eater
Somali bunting
Somali courser
Somali crombec
Somali crow
Somali fiscal
Somali ostrich
Somali short-toed lark
Somali sparrow
Somali tit
Somber greenbul
Somber nightjar
Sooty chat
Sooty falcon
Sooty gull
Sooty shearwater
Sooty tern
South African swallow
Southern black fly-catcher
Southern carmine bee-eater
Southern citril
Southern grosebeak canary
Southern ground-hornbill
Southern hyliota
Southern pochard
Southern red bishop
Southern white-faced owl
Southern-giant petrel
Speckle-breasted woodpecker
Speckled mouse bird
Speckled pigeon
Speckled tinkerbird
Speckle-fronted weaver
Spectacled weaver
Speke’s weaver
Splendid starling
Spot-flanked barbet
Spotted crake
Spotted eagle-owl
Spotted flycatcher
Spotted ground thrush
Spotted morning thrush
Spotted redshank
Spotted sandpiper
Spotted thick-knee
Spur-winged goose

Spur-winged lapwing
Squacco heron
Square-tailed nightjar
Standard-winged nightjar
Star-spotted nightjar
Steel-blue whydah
Steppe eagle
Stone patridge
Stout cisticola
Straw-tailed whydah
Streaky seedeater
Streaky-breasted flufftail
Striated heron
Striolated bunting
Stripe-cheeked greenbul
Striped crake
Striped flufftail
Striped kingfisher
Striped pipit
Stuhlmann’s starling
Sulfur-breasted bushshrike
Superb starling
Superb sunbird
Swahili sparrow
Swainson’s sparrow
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
Swamp flycatcher
Swamp nightjar
Tabora cisticola
Tacazze sunbird
Taita apalis
Taita falcon
Taita fiscal
Taita thrush
Taita white-eye
Tambourine dove
Tana-river cisticola
Taveta golden-weaver
Tawny eagle
Tawny pipit
Tawny-flanked prinia
Temmnick’s courser
Temmnick’s stint
Terek sandpiper
Terrestrial brownbul
Thekla’s lark
Thick-billed cuckoo
Thick-billed honeyguide
Thick-billed seedeater
Three-banded courser
Three-banded plover
Three-streaked tchagra
Thrush nightingale
Tiny cisticola
Tiny greenbul
Toro olive-greenbul
Tree pipit
Trilling cicticola
Tropical boubou
Trumpeter hornbill
Tsavo sunbird
Tufted duck
Tullberg’s woodpecker
Turner’s eremomela
Uganda woodland-warbler
Uluguru violet-backed sunbird
Upcher’s warbler
Usambara double-collared sunbird
Variable indigobird
Variable sunbird
Velvet-mantled drongo
Verreaux eagle-owl
Verreaux’s eagle
Vieillot’s weaver
Village indigobird
Village weaver
Violet wood hoopoe

Violet-backed starling
Violet-breasted sunbird
Vitelline masked-weaver
Von der decken’s hornbill
Vulturine guineafowl
Wahlberg’s eagle
Wahlberg’s honeyguide
Wailing cisticola
Waller’s starling
Water thick-knee
Wattled lapwing
Wattled starling
Wedge-tailed shearwater
West African seedeater
Western black-headed oriole
Western citril
Western nicator
Western reef heron
Western violet-backed sunbird
Western-black-headed batis
Western-yellow wagtail
Whimbrel
Whinchat
Whiskered tern
Whistling cisticola
White helmet shrike
White stork
White wagtail
White-backed duck
White-backed night-heron
White-backed vulture
White-bellied bustard
White-bellied canary
White-bellied go-away-bird
White-bellied tit
White-billed buffalo weaver
White-breasted cuckoo shrike
White-breasted nigrita
White-browed coucal
White-browed crombec
White-browed robin-chat
White-browed sparrow-weaver

White-capped albatross
White-cheeked tern
White-chinned petrel
White-chinned prinia
White-crested turaco
White-crowned starling
White-eared barbet
White-eyed gull
White-eyed slaty fly-catcher
White-faced whistling duck
White-fronted bee-eater
White-fronted plover
White-headed barbet
White-headed buffalo-weaver
White-headed mouse bird
White-headed sawwing
White-headed vulture
White-necked raven
White-rumped shrike
White-rumped swift
White-shouldered black-tit
White-spotted flufftail
White-starred robin
White-tailed ant-thrush
White-tailed crested-flycatcher
White-tailed lark
White-tailed tropicbird
White-throated bee-eater
White-throated greenbul
White-throated robin
White-winged apalis
White-winged black-tit
White-winged collared-dove
White-winged swamp warbler
White-winged tern
White-winged widowbird
William’s lark
Willow warbler
Wilson’s storm petrel
Winding cisicola
Wing-snapping cisticola
Wire-tailed swallow

Wood sandpiper
Wood warbler
Woodchat shrike
Woodland kingfisher
Woolly-necked stork
Yellow bishop
Yellow-and-red barbet
Yellow-bellied eremomela
Yellow-bellied greenbul
Yellow-bellied hyliota
Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
Yellow-bellied waxbill
Yellow-billed barbet
Yellow-billed duck
Yellow-billed ox-pecker
Yellow-billed shrike
Yellow-billed stork
Yellow-breasted apalis
Yellow-collared lovebird
Yellow-crowned bishop
Yellow-crowned canary
Yellow-fronted canary
Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
Yellow-mantled weaver
Yellow-mantled widowbird
Yellow-necked francolin
Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
Yellow-spotted barbet
Yellow-spotted bush-sparrow
Yellow-streaked bulbul
Yellow-throated greenbul
Yellow-throated longclaw
Yellow-throated sand grouse
Yellow-throated woodland-warbler
Yellow-vented eremomela
Yellow-whiskered bulbul
Zanzibar boubou
Zanzibar red bishop
Zebra waxbill
Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Zimbabwe

Whilst Zimbabwe doesn’t have any endemics, it’s still great for bird watching. A Zimbabwe holiday that focuses on bird-watching would be best during the rains (Oct-March) – as then food is plentiful, migrants are around and many species are in breeding plumage. Specialties include the rare Angola pitta (or ‘African Pitta’) and the Taita Falcon.

There have been over 650 bird species recorded in Zimbabwe, and eight of the ten families endemic to the African mainland are represented here.

RECOMMENDED SAFARIS

2 Day Akagera National Park Wildlife Safari