List of birds of Sao Tome and Principe
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List of birds of Sao Tome and Principe
The scenically spectacular, equatorial islands of São Tomé and Príncipe boast 25 endemic birds! Needless to say, therefore, they are a “must” for any serious world birder. We aim for all 25 of these endemics during our comprehensive tour (but of course might not get them all). We are forced to spend some nights camping (which we try and make as easy as possible for you) during our tour. The rainforest-clad volcanic slopes of these islands make for amazing birding, including a host of other species apart from the endemics, which are the main focus for us. While our focus is very much on birds we’re likely to encounter a great diversity of other wildlife as a by-product of the birding.
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- African crake
- African emerald cuckoo
- African green pigeon
- African palm-swift
- African pied wagtail
- African rail
- African scop’s owl
- Allen’s gallinule
- American golden plover
- Annobon white-eye
- Arctic tern
- Banded martin
- Band-rumped storm petrel
- Bank swallow
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Black heron
- Black kite
- Black noddy
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-capped speirops
- Black-headed heron
- Black-headed paradise flycatcher
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged pratincole
- Blue-breasted cordon-bleu
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Bridled tern
- Bronze mannikin
- Brown booby
- Brown noddy
- Cape gannet
- Cattle egret
- Chestnut-breasted nigrita
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Cinderella waxbill
- Common cuckoo
- Common greenshank
- Common house-martin
- Common ringed plover
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Curlew sandpiper
- Dohrn’s thrush-babbler
- Eastern olive-sunbird
- Eastern paradise whydah
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian moorhen
- European golden plover
- European roller
- European storm petrel
- Forest dove
- Fork-tailed drongo
- Fulvous whistling duck
- Garden warbler
- Giant weaver
- Golden-backed bishop
- Gray heron
- Gray parrot
- Gray-rumped swallow
- Great egret
- Great shearwater
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Greater flamingo
- Harlequin quail
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Intermediate egret
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Laughing dove
- Lemon dove
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser gray shrike
- Lesser moorhen
- Little bittern
- Little egret
- Little ringed plover
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Malachite kingfisher
- Maroon pigeon
- Marsh sandpiper
- Masked booby
- Newton’s fiscal
- Newton’s sunbird
- Osprey
- Pallid swift
- Palm-nut vulture
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Plain-backed pipit
- Pomarine jaeger
- Principe glossy-starling
- Principe golden weaver
- Principe kingfisher
- Principe seedeater
- Principe speirops
- Principe sunbird
- Principe thrush
- Purple heron
- Rameron pigeon
- Red-billed tropicbird
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-headed lovebird
- Red-headed quelea
- Red-necked spurfowl
- Rock pigeon
- Ruddy turnstone
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sao Tome green pigeon
- Sao Tome grosbeak
- Sao tome ibis
- Sao Tome kingfisher
- Sao Tome oriole
- Sao Tome paradise flycatcher
- Sao Tome pigeon
- Sao Tome prinia
- Sao Tome scop’s owl
- Sao Tome short-tail
- Sao Tome spinetail
- Sao Tome sunbird
- Sao Tome thrush
- Sao Tome weaver
- Sao Tome white-eye
- Scaly francolin
- Sedge warbler
- Sooty shearwater
- Sooty tern
- Splendid glossy-starling
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spur-winged lapwing
- Squacco heron
- Striated heron
- Tree pipit
- Velvet-mantled drongo
- Village weaver
- Vitelline masked weaver
- Western olive-sunbird
- Western reef-heron
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whimbrel
- White stork
- White-backed vulture
- White-bellied kingfisher
- White-fronted plover
- White-tailed tropicbird
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widowbird
- Wilson’s storm petrel
- Yellow-fronted canary
Best time to visit Sao Tome and Principe
The rainy season runs between October and May, with rainfall concentrated on the mountainous southwestern slopes. April and November are traditionally the wettest months; May and October are regarded as the two best months in which to visit.
