List of Birds of Niger

Bird-wise much remains to be discovered in Niger. Only the area around the capital Niamey, Makalondi district, and Parc National du W, all in the southwest of the country, and the Aïr Mountains in the north have been birded more or less systematically.

• Abdim’s stork
• Abyssinian ground hornbill
• Abyssinian roller
• African blue flycatcher
• African collared dove
• African crake
• African cuckoo
• African darter
• African desert warbler
• African emerald cuckoo
• African fin-foot
• African fish-eagle
• African golden oriole
• African gray hornbill
• African gray woodpecker
• African green pigeon
• African harrier-hawk
• African hawk-eagle
• African hobby
• African jacana
• African mourning dove
• African palm-swift
• African paradise flycatcher
• African pied wagtail
• African pipit
• African pygmy goose
• African pygmy kingfisher
• African reed warbler
• African scop’s owl
• African silver-bill
• African skimmer
• African spoonbill
• African swamphen
• African thrush
• African yellow white-eye
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine swift
• Arabian bustard
• Ayres’s eagle
• Baillon’s crake
• Banded martin
• Banded snake-eagle
• Bank swallow
• Barbary falcon
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Bar-tailed lark
• Bat hawk
• Bateleur
• Bearded barbet
• Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
• Beautiful sunbird
• Black coucal
• Black crake
• Black crowned crane
• Black goshawk
• Black heron
• Black kite
• Black redstart
• Black scimitar-bill
• Black scrub-robin
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black wheatear
• Black-bellied bustard
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-billed wood-dove
• Blackcap babbler
• Black-crowned night-heron
• Black-crowned sparrow-lark
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared wheatear
• Black-faced firefinch
• Black-faced quail-finch
• Black-headed gull
• Black-headed heron
• Black-headed lapwing

• Black-headed weaver
• Black-necked weaver
• Black-rumped waxbill
• Black-start
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged bishop
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue malkoha
• Blue quail
• Blue rock-thrush
• Blue throat
• Blue-bellied roller
• Blue-breasted kingfisher
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-napped mouse-bird
• Blue-spotted wood-dove
• Booted eagle
• Broad-billed roller
• Bronze mannikin
• Bronze-tailed glossy-starling
• Bronze-winged courser
• Brown babbler
• Brown snake-eagle
• Brown-backed woodpecker
• Brown-necked raven
• Brown-rumped bunting
• Brown-throated wattle-eye
• Brubru
• Bruce’s green pigeon
• Buff-bellied warbler
• Bush petronia
• Cape teal
• Caspian plover
• Caspian tern
• Cassin’s flycatcher
• Cattle egret
• Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
• Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
• Chestnut-bellied starling
• Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
• Clapperton’s francolin
• Collared flycatcher
• Collared pratincole
• Common bulbul
• Common chiffchaff
• Common cuckoo
• Common gonolek
• Common grasshopper warbler
• Common greenshank
• Common house martin
• Common nightingale
• Common ostrich
• Common pochard
• Common quail
• Common redshank
• Common redstart
• Common ringed plover
• Common sandpiper
• Common shelduck
• Common snipe
• Common swift
• Compact weaver
• Copper sunbird
• Coqui francolin
• Corn crake
• Cream-colored courser
• Crested lark
• Cricket long-tail
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Curlew sandpiper
• Cut-throat
• Dark-chanting goshawk
• Denham’s bustard
• Desert cisticola
• Desert lark
• Desert sparrow

• Desert wheatear
• Dideric cuckoo
• Double-spurred francolin
• Dunlin
• Dunn’s lark
• Dwarf bittern
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Egyptian goose
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian plover
• Egyptian vulture
• Ethiopian swallow
• Eurasian blackcap
• Eurasian collared dove
• Eurasian coot
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian kestrel
• Eurasian marsh-harrier
• Eurasian moorhen
• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scop’s owl
• Eurasian spoonbill
• Eurasian thick-knee
• Eurasian turtle-dove
• Eurasian wigeon
• Eurasian wryneck
• European bee-eater
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European roller
• European stonechat
• Familiar chat
• Fan-tailed raven
• Fan-tailed widowbird
• Fanti sawwing
• Ferruginous pochard
• Fine-spotted woodpecker
• Flappet lark
• Forbe’s plover
• Four-banded sandgrouse
• Fox kestrel
• Freckled nightjar
• Fulvous chatterer
• Fulvous whistling duck
• Gabar goshawk
• Gadwall
• Gambaga flycatcher
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Giant kingfisher
• Glossy ibis
• Glossy-backed drongo
• Golden eagle
• Golden nightjar
• Golden-breasted bunting
• Goliath heron
• Gossling’s bunting
• Grasshopper buzzard
• Gray heron
• Gray kestrel
• Gray pratincole
• Gray wagtail
• Gray’s malimbe
• Gray-headed bush-shrike
• Gray-headed gull
• Gray-headed kingfisher
• Gray-headed sparrow
• Grayish eagle-owl
• Gray-rumped swallow
• Gray-tit flycatcher
• Great bittern
• Great cormorant
• Great crested grebe

• Great egret
• Great gray shrike
• Great reed warbler
• Great snipe
• Great white pelican
• Greater blue-eared glossy-starling
• Greater flamingo
• Greater honeyguide
• Greater hoopoe-lar
• Greater painted snipe
• Greater short-toed-lark
• Greater swamp warbler
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Great-spotted cuckoo
• Green bee-eater
• Green sandpiper
• Green wood hoopoe
• Green-backed camaroptera
• Green-winged pytilia
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hadada ibis
• Hamerkop
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Heuglin’s masked weaver
• Heuglin’s wheatear
• Hooded vulture
• Horus swift
• Hottentot teal
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Intermediate egret
• Isabelline wheatear
• Jack snipe
• Kentish plover
• Kitilitz’s plover
• Klaas’s cuckoo
• Knob-billed duck
• Kordofan lark
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Lavender waxbill
• Leave-love
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser blue-eared glossy-starling
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser gray shrike
• Lesser honeyguide
• Lesser jacana
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser moorhen
• Lesser spotted eagle
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser-striped swallow
• Levaillant’s cuckoo
• Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
• Little bee-eater
• Little bittern
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little gray woodpecker
• Little grebe
• Little owl
• Little ringed plover
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Little weaver
• Lizard buzzard
• Long-billed pipit
• Long-crested eagle
• Long-legged buzzard
• Long-tailed cormorant

• Long-tailed glossy-starling
• Long-tailed nightjar
• Long-tailed paradise whydah
• Malachite kingfisher
• Mallard
• Marabou stork
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Martial eagle
• Masked shrike
• Melodious warbler
• Menetries’s warbler
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mosque swallow
• Mottled spine-tail
• Mottled swift
• Mourning wheatear
• Namaqua dove
• Narina trogon
• Neumann’s starling
• Northern anteater-chat
• Northern black-flycatcher
• Northern carmine bee-eater
• Northern crombec
• Northern fiscal
• Northern paradise whydah
• Northern pintail
• Northern puffback
• Northern red-billed hornbill
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Northern white-faced owl
• Nubian bustard
• Olive tree warbler
• Orange bishop
• Orange-cheeked waxbill
• Oriole warbler
• Osprey
• Pale flycatcher
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Palm-nut vulture
• Pearl-spotted owl
• Pel’s fishing owl
• Pennant-tailed nightjar
• Peregrine falcon
• Pharaoh eagle-owl
• Piapiac
• Pied avocet
• Pied crow
• Pied cuckoo
• Pied kingfisher
• Pied-winged swallow
• Pink-backed pelican
• Pin-tailed whydah
• Plain martin
• Plain nightjar
• Plain-backed pipit
• Preuss’s swallow
• Purple glossy-starling
• Purple heron
• Pygmy sunbird
• Quail plover
• Quail-finch
• Red kite
• Red pate cisticola
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-billed firefinch
• Red-billed quelea
• Red-cheeked crdonbleu
• Red-chested cuckoo
• Red-chested goshawk
• Red-chested swallow
• Red-eyed dove
• Red-footed falcon
• Red-headed lovebird
• Red-headed quelea

• Red-necked buzzard
• Red-necked falcon
• Red-necked phalarope
• Red-rumped swallow
• Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
• Red-throated bee-eater
• Red-throated pipit
• Red-winged prinia
• Red-winged pytilia
• River prinia
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock prantincole
• Rock-loving cisticola
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Ruff
• Rufous-chested swallow
• Rufous-crowned roller
• Rufous-napped lark
• Rufous-ramped lark
• Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
• Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
• Ruppell’s griffon
• Ruppell’s warbler
• Rusty lark
• Sacred ibis
• Saddle-billed stork
• Sanderling
• Sardinian warbler
• Scarlet-chested sunbird
• Scissor-tailed kite
• Secretary bird
• Sedge warbler
• Senegal batis
• Senegal coucal
• Senegal eremomela
• Senegal parrot
• Senegal thick-knee
• Senner penduline tit
• Sevile’s bustard
• Shikra
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Siffling cisticola
• Singing bush-lark
• Singing cisticola
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Snowy-crowned robin-chat
• Song thrush
• Sooty falcon
• Spanish sparrow
• Speckled pigeon
• Speckle-fronted weaver
• Spectacled warbler
• Splendid sunbird
• Spotted crake
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Spotted thick-knee
• Spur-winged goose
• Spur-winged lapwing
• Squacco heron
• Standard-winged nightjar
• Steppe eagle
• Stone partridge
• Striated heron
• Striped kingfisher
• Sub-alpine warbler
• Sudan golden-sparrow
• Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
• Sun lark
• Swamp flycatcher
• Tawny eagle
• Tawny pipit
• Tawny-flanked prinia

• Temmnick’s courser
• Temmnick’s stint
• Tree pipit
• Trumpeter finch
• Tufted duck
• Variable indigobird
• Verreaux’s eagle
• Verreaux’s eagle owl
• Vieillot’s barbet
• Village indigobird
• Village weaver
• Vinaceous dove
• Violet turaco
• Violet-backed starling
• Vitelline masked weaver
• Wahlberg’s eagle
• Water thick-knee
• West African seed-eater
• Western bonelli’s warbler
• Western olivaceous warbler
• Western orphean warbler
• Western plantain eater
• Western yellow-wagtail

• Whinchat
• Whiskered tern
• White helmet-shrike
• White stork
• White wagtail
• White-backed duck
• White-backed night-heron
• White-backed vulture
• White-bellied bustard
• White-billed buffalo-weaver
• White-crowned robin-chat
• White-faced whistling duck
• White-fronted black-chat
• White-fronted plover
• White-headed lapwing
• White-headed vulture
• White-rumped seed-eater
• White-rumped swift
• White-shouldered black-tit
• White-spotted flufftail
• White-tailed wheatear
• White-throated bee-eater
• White-throated francolin

• White-winged tern
• Willow warbler
• Winding cisticola
• Wire-tailed swallow
• Wood sandpiper
• Wood warbler
• Woodchat shrike
• Woodland kingfisher
• Woolly-necked stork
• Yellow penduline-tit
• Yellow-bellied eremomela
• Yellow-billed ox-pecker
• Yellow-billed shrike
• Yellow-breasted barbet
• Yellow-crowned bishop
• Yellow-fronted canary
• Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
• Yellow-shouldered widowbird
• Yellow-spotted petronia
• Yellow-throated longclaw
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Niger

The best time to visit Niger is in January and February and July until December when you will have a hot or very hot temperature and none till limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in Niger is 42°C in April and the lowest is 34°C in January.