List of birds of Central African Republic
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List of birds of Central African Republic
The wilderness regions of this country have potential as Eco tourist destinations. The country is noted for its population of forest elephants. In the southwest, the Dzanga-Sangha National Park is a rain forest area. To the north, the Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park has been well-populated with wildlife, including leopards, lions, and rhinos. To the northeast the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park. However, the population of wildlife in these parks has severely diminished over the past 20 years due to poaching, particularly from neighboring Sudan.
The Central African Republic Bush War began in 2004 and, despite a peace treaty in 2007 and another in 2011, fighting broke out between various factions in December 2012, leading to the ethnic and religious cleansing of the Muslim minority and massive population displacement in 2013 and 2014.
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- Abdim’s stork
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- Abyssinian roller
- Afep pigeon
- African barred owlet
- African black-headed oriole
- African blue flycatcher
- African broadbill
- African crake
- African cuckoo
- African cuckoo-hawk
- African darter
- African dusky flycatcher
- African dwarf kingfisher
- African emerald cuckoo
- African finfoot
- African firefinch
- African fish eagle
- African forest flycatcher
- African golden oriole
- African goshawk
- African grass owl
- African gray hornbill
- African gray woodpecker
- African green pigeon
- African harrier hawk
- African hawk-eagle
- African hobby
- African jacana
- African marsh-harrier
- African mourning dove
- African paradise flycatcher
- African piculet
- African pied hornbill
- African pied wagtail
- African pipit
- African pitta
- African pygmy goose
- African pygmy kingfisher
- African rail
- African river martin
- African scop’s owl
- African shrike flycatcher
- African silver-bill
- African skimmer
- African spoonbill
- African spotted creeper
- African swamphen
- African thrush
- African wood owl
- African yellow warbler
- African yellow white-eye
- African-palm swift
- Akun eagle owl
- Allen’s gallinule
- Alpine swift
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- Arabian bustard
- Arctic tern
- Ashy flycatcher
- Ayres’s hawk-eagle
- Baglafechet weaver
- Baka indigobird
- Banded martin
- Banded prinia
- Banded snake-eagle
- Bar-breasted firefinch
- Bare-cheeked trogon
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Barn swallow
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Bat hawk
- Bateleur
- Bates’s nightjar
- Bates’s sunbird
- Bearded barbet
- Bearded woodpecker
- Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
- Beautiful sunbird
- Black bee-eater
- Black bellied bustard
- Black bishop
- Black coucal
- Black crake
- Black crowned crane
- Black cuckoo
- Black cuckoo-shrike
- Black dwarf hornbill
- Black goshawk
- Black guineafowl
- Black kite
- Black sawwing
- Black scimitar-bill
- Black scrub-robin
- Black spinetail
- Black stork
- Black-and-white casqued hornbill
- Black-and-white mannikin
- Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
- Black-bellied firefinch
- Black-bellied seed-cracker
- Black-billed turaco
- Black-billed weaver
- Black-billed wood-dove
- Black-breasted barbet
- Blackcap babbler
- Blackcap illadopsis
- Black-capped apalis
- Black-casqued hornbill
- Black-chested snake-eagle
- Black-collared apalis
- Black-collared lovebird
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-crowned tchagra
- Black-crowned waxbill
- Black-eared wheatear
- Black-faced firefinch
- Black-faced quail-finch
- Black-faced rufous warbler
- Black-headed bee-eater
- Black-headed gonolek
- Black-headed heron
- Black-headed lapwing
- Black-headed paradise flycatcher
- Black-headed waxbill
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-necked cisticola
- Black-necked weaver
- Black-rumped buttonquail
- Black-rumped waxbill
- Black-shouldered nightjar
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-throated apalis
- Black-throated malimbe
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged kite
- Black-winged oriole
- Black-winged pratincole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue cuckoo-shrike
- Blue malkoha
- Blue quail
- Blue-bellied roller
- Blue-breasted bee-eater
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Blue-headed bee-eater
- Blue-headed coucal
- Blue-headed crested flycatcher
- Blue-headed wood-dove
- Blue-napped mouse-bird
- Blue-shouldered robin-chat
- Blue-spotted wood-dove
- Blue-throated brown sunbird
- Blue-throated roller
- Booted eagle
- Broad-billed roller
- Bronze mannikin
- Bronze-tailed glossy starling
- Bronze-winged courser
- Brown babbler
- Brown illadopsis
- Brown nightjar
- Brown snake-eagle
- Brown twin-spot
- Brown-backed scrub-robin
- Brown-backed woodpecker
- Brown-capped weaver
- Brown-cheeked hornbill
- Brown-chested alethe
- Brown-chested lapwing
- Brown-crowned tchagra
- Brown-eared woodpecker
- Brown-rumped bunting
- Brown-throated wattle-eye
- Brubru
- Bruce’s green pigeon
- Buff-bellied warbler
- Buff-spotted woodpecker
- Buff-throated apalis
- Bush petronia
- Cabanis’s bunting
- Cameroon indigobird
- Capuchin babbler
- Cardinal quelea
- Cardinal woodpecker
- Caspian tern
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Cassin’s hawk-eagle
- Cassin’s honeyguide
- Cassin’s spinetail
- Cattle egret
- Chattering cisticola
- Chestnut wattle-eye
- Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
- Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
- Chestnut-bellied starling
- Chestnut-breasted negro-finch
- Chestnut-capped flycatcher
- Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-flanked sparrow-hawk
- Chestnut-headed flufftail
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Chocolate-backed kingfisher
- Cinnamon-breasted bunting
- Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
- Clapperton’s francolin
- Collared flycatcher
- Collared pratincole
- Collared sunbird
- Common bulbul
- Common buzzard
- Common cuckoo
- Common gonolek
- Common greenshank
- Common house-martin
- Common nightingale
- Common ostrich
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common sandpiper
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common waxbill
- Common-ringed lapwing
- Compact weaver
- Congo martin
- Congo moorchat
- Congo serpent eagle
- Copper sunbird
- Crested guineafowl
- Crested lark
- Crested malimbe
- Croaking cisticola
- Crowned eagle
- Crowned hornbill
- Curlew sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- Dark-chanting goshawk
- Denham’s bustard
- Dideric cuckoo
- Double-toothed barbet
- Dusky babbler
- Dusky blue flycatcher
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky tit
- Dusky-crested flycatcher
- Dwarf bittern
- Dybwoski’s twin-spot
- Eastern olivaceous warbler
- Eastern olive-sunbird
- Eastern plantain eater
- Eastern-bearded greenbul
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian plover
- Egyptian vulture
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Emin’s shrike
- Ethiopian swallow
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian kestrel
- Eurasian marsh-harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian reed warbler
- Eurasian scop’s owl
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian wryneck
- European bee-eater
- European honey-buzzard
- European pied flycatcher
- European roller
- Familiar chat
- Fan-tailed raven
- Fan-tailed widowbird
- Fawn-breasted waxbill
- Fernando po batis
- Ferruginous pochard
- Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
- Fiery-necked nightjar
- Fine-spotted woodpecker
- Fire-crested alethe
- Flappet lark
- Forbe’s plover
- Forest robin
- Forest scrub-robin
- Forest white-eye
- Forest wood hoopoe
- Four-banded sandgrouse
- Fox kestrel
- Foxy cisticola
- Fraser’s eagle owl
- Freckled nightjar
- Fulvous whistling duck
- Gabar goshawk
- Gabon coucal
- Gabon woodpecker
- Gambaga flycatcher
- Garden warbler
- Garganey
- Giant kingfisher
- Glossy ibis
- Glossy-backed drongo
- Golden greenbul
- Golden-breasted bunting
- Golden-tailed woodpecker
- Goliath heron
- Gosling’s apalis
- Grasshopper buzzard
- Gray cuckoo-shrike
- Gray greenbul
- Gray heron
- Gray kestrel
- Gray long-bill
- Gray parrot
- Gray pratincole
- Gray wagtail
- Gray’s malimbe
- Gray-backed fiscal
- Gray-green bush-shrike
- Gray-headed batis
- Gray-headed bush-shrike
- Gray-headed gull
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed negro-finch
- Gray-headed olive-back
- Gray-headed sparrow
- Grayish eagle-owl
- Gray-rumped swallow
- Gray-throated barbet
- Gray-throated tit-flycatcher
- Gray-tit flycatcher
- Gray-winged robin-chat
- Great bittern
- Great blue turaco
- Great cormorant
- Great egret
- Great reed warbler
- Great snipe
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Great white pelican
- Greater honeyguide
- Greater painted snipe
- Greater swamp warbler
- Greater whitethroat
- Green bee-eater
- Green crombec
- Green hylia
- Green sandpiper
- Green sunbird
- Green wood hoopoe
- Green-backed camaroptera
- Green-backed eremomela
- Green-backed twin-spot
- Green-backed woodpecker
- Green-breasted pitta
- Green-headed sunbird
- Green-throated sunbird
- Green-winged pytilia
- Green-winged teal
- Grosbeak weaver
- Guinea turaco
- Hadada ibis
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- Half-collared kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin quail
- Hartlaub’s duck
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Heuglin’s francolin
- Heuglin’s masked weaver
- Heuglin’s wheatear
- Honeyguide greenbul
- Hooded vulture
- Icterine greenbul
- Icterine warbler
- Intermediate egret
- Isabelline shrike
- Jack snipe
- Jambandu indigobird
- Johanna’s sunbird
- Kitilitz’s plover
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Lanner falcon
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Large-billed puffback
- Latham’s francolin
- Laughing dove
- Lavender waxbill
- Leaf-love
- Least honeyguide
- Lemon dove
- Lemon-bellied crombec
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Lesser blue-eared glossy starling
- Lesser bristle-bill
- Lesser honeyguide
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser masked weaver
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser striped swallow
- Lesser swamp warbler
- Lesser-spotted eagle
- Levaillant’s cuckoo
- Levant sparrow-hawk
- Little bee-eater
- Little bittern
- Little egret
- Little gray flycatcher
- Little grebe
- Little green sunbird
- Little green woodpecker
- Little greenbul
- Little sparrow-hawk
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little weaver
- Little-ringed lapwing
- Lizard buzzard
- Long-crested eagle
- Long-legged buzzard
- Long-legged pipit
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-tailed glossy-starling
- Long-tailed hawk
- Long-tailed nightjar
- Long-tailed paradise whydah
- Lowland akalat
- Luehder’s bush-shrike
- Lyre-tailed honeyguide
- Mackinnon’s shrike
- Magpie mannikin
- Malachite kingfisher
- Maned owl
- Many-colored bush-shrike
- Marabou stork
- Marsh sandpiper
- Marsh tchagra
- Martial eagle
- Masked shrike
- Maxwell’s black weaver
- Melodious warbler
- Meyer’s parrot
- Mocking cliff-chat
- Montagu’s harrier
- Mosque swallow
- Mottled spine-tail
- Mountain wagtail
- Moustached grass warbler
- Namaqua dove
- Narrow-tailed starling
- Neumann’s starling
- Niam-Niam parrot
- Nkulengu rail
- Northern anteater-chat
- Northern black flycatcher
- Northern carmine bee-eater
- Northern crombec
- Northern double-collared sunbird
- Northern fiscal
- Northern paradise whydah
- Northern pintail
- Northern puffback
- Northern red-billed hornbill
- Northern shoveler
- Northern wheatear
- Northern white-faced owl
- Nubian woodpecker
- Olivaceous flycatcher
- Olive ibis
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo
- Olive-bellied sunbird
- Olive-green camaroptera
- Orange bishop
- Orange weaver
- Orange-cheeked waxbill
- Orange-tufted sunbird
- Oriole cuckoo-shrike
- Oriole warbler
- Osprey
- Ovambo sparrow-hawk
- Pale flycatcher
- Pale-breasted illadopsis
- Pale-chanting goshawk
- Pale-fronted negro-finch
- Palestine sunbird
- Pale-winged indigobird
- Pallid harrier
- Pallid swift
- Palm-nut vulture
- Parasitic weaver
- Pearl-spotted owlet
- Pel’s fishing owl
- Pennant-winged nightjar
- Peregrine falcon
- Petit’s cuckoo-shrike
- Piapiac
- Pied avocet
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pied-winged swallow
- Pink-footed puffback
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Piping hornbill
- Plain greenbul
- Plain martin
- Plain nightjar
- Plain-backed pipit
- Plumed guineafowl
- Preuss’s swallow
- Preuss’s weaver
- Purple glossy-starling
- Purple heron
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Purple-headed starling
- Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
- Pygmy falcon
- Pygmy sunbird
- Quail plover
- Quail-finch
- Red bishop
- Red knot
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-bellied malimbe
- Red-billed dwarf hornbill
- Red-billed firefinch
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-capped robin-chat
- Red-cheeked cordonbleu
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Red-chested flufftail
- Red-chested goshawk
- Red-chested owlet
- Red-chested swallow
- Red-collared widowbird
- Red-crowned malimbe
- Red-eyed dove
- Red-eyed puffback
- Red-faced cisticola
- Red-faced pytilia
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-fronted parrot
- Red-headed blue-bill
- Red-headed lovebird
- Red-headed malimbe
- Red-headed quelea
- Red-headed weaver
- Red-necked buzzard
- Red-necked falcon
- Red-pate cisticola
- Red-rumped swallow
- Red-rumped tinkerbird
- Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
- Red-tailed ant thrush
- Red-tailed bristle-bill
- Red-tailed greenbul
- Red-thighed sparrow-hawk
- Red-throated bee-eater
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-winged gray-warbler
- Red-winged prinia
- Red-winged pytilia
- Reichenbach’s sunbird
- Ring-necked dove
- Rock martin
- Rock pratincole
- Rock-loving cisticola
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Ross’s turaco
- Rosy bee-eater
- Ruff
- Rufous cisticola
- Rufous flycatcher-thrush
- Rufous-bellied helmet shrike
- Rufous-cheeked nightjar
- Rufous-chested swallow
- Rufous-crowned eremomela
- Rufous-crowned roller
- Rufous-napped lark
- Rufous-necked wryneck
- Rufous-rumped lark
- Rufous-sided broadbill
- Rufous-tailed palm-thrush
- Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
- Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
- Rufous-vented paradise flycatcher
- Ruppell’s griffon
- Sabine’s spinetail
- Sacred ibis
- Saddle-billed stork
- Sanderling
- Scaly francolin
- Scaly-breasted illadopsis
- Scarlet-chested sunbird
- Scarlet-tufted sunbird
- Schlegel’s francolin
- Scissor-tailed kite
- Secretary bird
- Sedge warbler
- Senegal coucal
- Senegal eremomela
- Senegal thick-knee
- Sharpe’s drongo
- Shikra
- Shinning blue kingfisher
- Shinning drongo
- Shoebill stork
- Siffling cisticola
- Simple greenbul
- Singing bush-lark
- Singing cisticola
- Sjostedt’s greenbul
- Sjostedt’s owlet
- Sladen’s barbet
- Slender-billed greenbul
- Small buttonquail
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Solitary sandpiper
- Sooty boubou
- Sooty chat
- Sooty flycatcher
- Southern boubou
- Speckle-breasted woodpecker
- Speckled mouse-bird
- Speckled pigeon
- Speckled tinkerbird
- Speckle-fronted weaver
- Spectacled weaver
- Splendid glossy starling
- Splendid sunbird
- Spot-breasted ibis
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted greenbul
- Spotted honeyguide
- Spotted redshank
- Spotted thick-knee
- Spur-winged goose
- Spur-winged lapwing
- Squacco heron
- Square-tailed sawwing
- Standard-winged nightjar
- Stone partridge
- Striated heron
- Striped kingfisher
- Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
- Sun lark
- Superb sunbird
- Swallow-tailed bee-eater
- Swamp flycatcher
- Swamp greenbul
- Swamp nightjar
- Tambourine dove
- Tawny eagle
- Tawny pipit
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Temmnick’s courser
- Temmnick’s stint
- Thick-billed cuckoo
- Thick-billed honeyguide
- Thrush babbler
- Tiny sunbird
- Tit hylia
- Tree pipit
- Tropical boubou
- Variable indigobird
- Variable sunbird
- Velvet-mantled drongo
- Vermiculated fishing owl
- Verreaux’s eagle-owl
- Vieillot’s barbet
- Vieillot’s weaver
- Village indigobird
- Village weaver
- Vinaceous dove
- Violet turaco
- Violet-backed hyliota
- Violet-backed starling
- Violet-tailed sunbird
- Viteline masked weaver
- Wahlberg’s eagle
- Wahlberg’s honeyguide
- Water thick-knee
- Wattled lapwing
- Wattled starling
- West African seedeater
- Western black-headed batis
- Western black-headed oriole
- Western blue-bill
- Western bronze-napped pigeon
- Western nicator
- Western plantain eater
- Western violet-backed sunbird
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- Whistling cisticola
- White crested bittern
- White helmet shrike
- White stork
- White wagtail
- White-backed night-heron
- White-backed vulture
- White-bearded greenbul
- White-bellied buffalo weaver
- White-bellied bustard
- White-bellied kingfisher
- White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
- White-breasted negro-finch
- White-browed forest flycatcher
- White-browed robin-chat
- White-chinned prinia
- White-collared starling
- White-crested hornbill
- White-crested turaco
- White-crowned robin-chat
- White-faced whistling duck
- White-fronted black-chat
- White-fronted plover
- White-headed barbet
- White-headed lapwing
- White-headed vulture
- White-headed wood hoopoe
- White-rumped seedeater
- White-rumped swift
- White-shouldered black-tit
- White-spotted flufftail
- White-spotted wattle-eye
- White-tailed ant thrush
- White-thighed hornbill
- White-throated bee-eater
- White-throated blue swallow
- White-throated greenbul
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widowbird
- Willock’s honeyguide
- Willow warbler
- Winding cisticola
- Wire-tailed swallow
- Wood house’s ant-pecker
- Wood sandpiper
- Wood warbler
- Woodchat shrike
- Woodland kingfisher
- Woolly-necked stork
- Xavier’s greenbul
- Yellow long-bill
- Yellow penduline tit
- Yellow-bellied hyliota
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
- Yellow-billed barbet
- Yellow-billed oxpecker
- Yellow-billed shrike
- Yellow-breasted apalis
- Yellow-browed camaroptera
- Yellow-capped weaver
- Yellow-crested woodpecker
- Yellow-crowned bishop
- Yellow-footed flycatcher
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
- Yellow-mantled weaver
- Yellow-necked greenbul
- Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
- Yellow-shouldered widowbird
- Yellow-spotted barbet
- Yellow-spotted petronia
- Yellow-throated cuckoo
- Yellow-throated greenbul
- Yellow-throated longclaw
- Yellow-throated nicator
- Yellow-throated tinkerbird
- Yellow-whiskered bulbul
- Zebra waxbill
- Zenker’s honeyguide
- Zitting cisticola
Best time for Birding in Central African Republic
The best time to go to the Central African Republic is in the December to May dry season. At this time wildlife is forced to cluster around the remaining waterholes, meaning you can see elephants and other creatures in great numbers. It also makes trekking to see gorillas more pleasant.
