List of birds of Equatorial Guinea
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List of birds of Equatorial Guinea
Few birdwatchers have ever visited this small country in West Africa or even know where it is situated, ornithological records are limited and many areas have not been surveyed. Only about 340 species have been recorded on the mainland, Rio Muni, whilst 198 species have been recorded on the island of Bioko and 19 species on the island of Annobón. Bioko and Annobón both have endemic species and subspecies. It is a country therefore which offers potential opportunities for the professional ornithologist and perhaps much of interest for the more adventurous birdwatcher.
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- Abdim’s stork
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- Abyssinian roller
- Adamawa turtle dove
- Afep pigeon
- African barred owlet
- African black-headed oriole
- African blue flycatcher
- African broadbill
- African bush warbler
- African collared dove
- 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 gray hornbill
- African gray woodpecker
- African green pigeon
- African harrier-hawk
- African hawk eagle
- African hill babbler
- African hobby
- African jacana
- African marsh-harrier
- African mourning dove
- African openbill
- African palm-swift
- African paradise flycatcher
- African piculet
- African pied hornbill
- African pied wagtail
- African pipit
- African pitta
- African pygmy goose
- African pygmy kingfisher
- African rail
- African reed warbler
- African river martin
- African scop’s owl
- African shrike flycatcher
- African silver-bill
- African skimmer
- African spoonbill
- African stonechat
- African swamphen
- African swift
- African thrush
- African wood owl
- African yellow warbler
- Akun eagle-owl
- Allen’s gallinule
- Annobon paradise flycatcher
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- Arabian bustard
- Arctic tern
- Arctic tern
- Ascension frigatebird
- Ashy flycatcher
- Ayres’s eagle
- Baglafecht weaver
- Baka indigobird
- Banded martin
- Banded prinia
- Banded snake-eagle
- Bangwa forest warbler
- Bank swallow
- Bannerman’s turaco
- Barbary falcon
- Bar-breasted firefinch
- Bare-cheeked trogon
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Bar-tailed trogon
- Bat hawk
- Bateleur
- Bates’s nightjar
- Bates’s swift
- Bearded barbet
- Bearded woodpecker
- Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
- Black bee-eater
- Black bishop
- Black coucal
- Black crake
- Black crowned crane
- Black cuckoo
- Black dwarf hornbill
- Black goshawk
- Black guineafowl
- Black heron
- Black kite
- Black sawwing
- Black scimitar-bill
- Black scrub robin
- Black spine-tail
- Black spine-tail
- Black stork
- Black tern
- Black-and-white casqued hornbill
- Black-and-white mannikin
- Black-and-white shrike flycatcher
- Black-bellied bustard
- Black-bellied firefinch
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-bellied seed cracker
- Black-billed weaver
- Black-billed wood dove
- Black-breasted barbet
- Blackcap illadopsis
- Black-capped apalis
- Black-capped woodland warbler
- Black-casqued hornbill
- Black-chinned quail-finch
- Black-collared lovebird
- Black-crowned night-heron
- Black-crowned tchagra
- Black-crowned waxbill
- Black-eared ground thrush
- Black-faced firefinch
- Black-faced rufous-warbler
- Black-headed batis
- Black-headed bee-eater
- Black-headed heron
- Black-headed lapwing
- Black-headed paradise flycatcher
- Black-headed waxbill
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-necked cisticola
- Black-necked wattle-eye
- Black-necked weaver
- Black-rumped button quail
- Black-rumped waxbill
- Black-shouldered nightjar
- Blackstart
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-throated apalis
- Black-throated coucal
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged kite
- Black-winged oriole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue malkoha
- Blue quail
- Blue rock thrush
- Blue-bellied roller
- Blue-billed malimbe
- 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 roller
- Bocage’s akalat
- Booted eagle
- Boumann’s greenbul
- Bristle-nosed barbet
- Broad-billed roller
- Bronze mannikin
- Bronze-tailed glossy-starling
- Bronze-winged courser
- Brown booby
- Brown nightjar
- Brown noddy
- 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 flufftail
- Buff-spotted woodpecker
- Buff-throated apalis
- Bush petronia
- Cabanis’s bunting
- Cameroon francolin
- Cameroon mountain greenbul
- Cameroon pigeon
- Cameroon-olive greenbul
- Cape gannet
- Cardinal quelea
- Cardinal woodpecker
- Caspian tern
- Caspian tern
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Cassin’s hawk-eagle
- Cassin’s honeyguide
- Cassin’s malimbe
- Cassin’s spine-tail
- Cattle egret
- Chattering cisticola
- Chestnut flanked sparrow-hawk
- Chestnut wattle-eye
- Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
- Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
- Chestnut-breasted negro-finch
- Chestnut-capped flycatcher
- Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-headed flufftail
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Chocolate-backed kingfisher
- Chubb’s cisticola
- Cinnamon-breasted bunting
- Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
- Clapperton’s francolin
- Collared pratincole
- Common bulbul
- Common buzzard
- Common chiffchaff
- Common cuckoo
- Common greenshank
- Common house-martin
- Common nightingale
- Common ostrich
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common sandpiper
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Common-ringed plover
- Compact weaver
- Congo martin
- Congo serpent-eagle
- Corn crake
- Crested guineafowl
- Crested lark
- Crested malimbe
- Crimson seed cracker
- Croaking cisticola
- Crossley’s ground thrush
- Crowned eagle
- Crowned hornbill
- Curlew sandpiper
- Damara tern
- Dark-backed weaver
- Dark-chanting goshawk
- Denham’s bustard
- Dideric cuckoo
- Dorst’s cisticola
- Double-spurred francolin
- Double-toothed barbet
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky turtle dove
- Dusky-blue flycatcher
- Dusky-crested flycatcher
- Dwarf bittern
- Dybowski’s twin-spot
- Eastern bearded-greenbul
- Eastern olivaceous warbler
- Eastern plantain-eater
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian plover
- Egyptian vulture
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Emin’s shrike
- Ethiopian swallow
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian griffon
- Eurasian hooby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian kestrel
- Eurasian marsh-harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- Eurasian reed warbler
- Eurasian scop’s owl
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian turtle dove
- Eurasian wryneck
- European bee-eater
- European honey buzzard
- European pied flycatcher
- European roller
- Familiar chat
- Fan-tailed grassbird
- Fan-tailed widowbird
- Fawn-breasted waxbill
- Fernando po batis
- Fernando po olive-back
- Ferruginous pochard
- Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
- Fine-spotted woodpecker
- Fire-crested elethe
- Flappet lark
- Forbe’s plover
- Forest robin
- Forest swallow
- Forest wood hoopoe
- Fork-tailed drongo
- Four-banded sandgrouse
- Fox kestrel
- Fraser’s eagle-owl
- Freckled nightjar
- Fuelleborn’s boubou
- Fulvous whistling duck
- Gabon boubou
- Gabon coucal
- Gabon woodpecker
- Gambaga flycatcher
- Garbar goshawk
- Garden warbler
- Garganey
- Giant kingfisher
- Glossy ibis
- Golden greenbul
- Golden-breasted bunting
- Golden-tailed woodpecker
- Goliath heron
- Gosling’s apalis
- Grasshopper buzzard
- Gray apalis
- Gray cuckoo-shrike
- Gray greenbul
- Gray ground thrush
- Gray heron
- Gray kestrel
- Gray long-bill
- Gray parrot
- Gray pratincole
- Gray wagtail
- Gray-backed fiscal
- Gray-chested babbler
- Gray-green bush-shrike
- Gray-headed batis
- Gray-headed bristlebill
- Gray-headed broadbill
- Gray-headed bush-shrike
- Gray-headed greenbul
- Gray-headed gull
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed negro-finch
- Gray-headed olive-back
- Gray-headed sparrow
- Grayish eagle-owl
- Gray-necked rockfowl
- Gray-rumped swallow
- Gray-throated barbet
- Gray-throated rail
- 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 flamingo
- Greater honeyguide
- Greater painted snipe
- Greater spotted eagle
- Greater swamp warbler
- Greater whitethroat
- Green bee-eater
- Green crombec
- Green hylia
- Green long-tail
- Green sandpiper
- Green wood hoopoe
- Green-backed camaroptera
- Green-backed twin-spot
- Green-backed woodpecker
- Green-winged pytilia
- Green-winged teal
- Guinea turaco
- Gull billed tern
- Hadada ibis
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- Half-collared kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin quail
- Hartlaub’s duck
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Heuglin’s francolin
- Heuglin’s wheatear
- Honeyguide greenbul
- Hooded vulture
- Icterine greenbul
- Icterine warbler
- Imperial eagle
- Intermediate egret
- Ja river scrub warbler
- Jack snipe
- Kentish plover
- Kitilitz’s plover
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Lanner falcon
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Large-billed puffback
- Lark button quail
- 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 bristlebill
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser honeyguide
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser masked weaver
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser spotted eagle
- Lesser whitethroat
- Lesser-striped swallow
- Levaillant’s cuckoo
- Little bee-eater
- Little bittern
- Little crake
- Little egret
- Little gray flycatcher
- Little grebe
- Little green woodpecker
- Little greenbul
- Little ringed plover
- Little sparrow hawk
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little tern
- Little tern
- Little weaver
- Lizard buzzard
- Long-billed pipit
- Long-crested eagle
- Long-legged buzzard
- Long-legged pipit
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-tailed glossy-starling
- Long-tailed hawk
- 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 apalis
- Masked booby
- Masked shrike
- Maxwell’s black weaver
- Melodious warbler
- Meyer’s parrot
- Mocking cliff-chat
- Mosque swallow
- Mottled spine-tail
- Mountain robin-chat
- Mountain sawwing
- Mountain wagtail
- Naked-faced barbet
- Namaqua dove
- Narina trogon
- Narrow-tailed starling
- Neumann’s starling
- Niam-niam parrot
- Nkulengu rail
- Northern anteater-chat
- Northern black flycatcher
- Northern carmine bee-eater
- Northern crombec
- Northern fiscal
- Northern pintail
- Northern puffback
- Northern red-billed hornbill
- Northern wheatear
- Northern white-faced owl
- Nubian woodpecker
- Olivaceous flycatcher
- Olive ibis
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo
- Olive-green camaroptera
- Orange bishop
- Orange weaver
- Orange-cheeked waxbill
- Oriole cuckoo-shrike
- Oriole finch
- Oriole warbler
- Osprey
- Ovambo sparrow-hawk
- Pale flycatcher
- Pale-fronted negro-finch
- Pale-winged indigobird
- Pallid harrier
- Pallid swift
- Palm-nut vulture
- Parasitic weaver
- Pearl-spotted owlet
- Pel’s fishing owl
- Peregrine falcon
- Petit’s cuckoo-shrike
- Piapiac
- Pied avocet
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pink-backed pelican
- Pink-footed puffback
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Piping hornbill
- Plain greenbul
- Plain martin
- Plain nightjar
- Plain-backed pipit
- Plumed guineafowl
- Pomarine skua
- Preuss’s swallow
- Preuss’s weaver
- Purple glossy-starling
- Purple heron
- Purple-headed starling
- Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
- Quail finch
- Rachel’s malimbe
- Rameron pigeon
- Red knot
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-bellied malimbe
- Red-billed dwarf hornbill
- Red-billed ox-pecker
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-billed tropical bird
- Red-capped robin-chat
- Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Red-chested flufftail
- Red-chested goshawk
- Red-chested owlet
- Red-chested swallow
- Red-collared widowbird
- Red-crested turaco
- Red-crowned malimbe
- Red-eyed dove
- Red-eyed puffback
- Red-faced cisticola
- Red-faced crimson-wing
- 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 bristlebill
- Red-tailed greenbul
- Red-thighed sparrow-hawk
- Red-throated bee-eater
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-vented malimbe
- Red-winged gray warbler
- Red-winged prinia
- Red-winged pytilia
- Richard’s pipit
- Ring-necked francolin
- Ring-necked francolin
- Rock martin
- Rock pratincole
- Rock-loving cisticola
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Ross’s turaco
- Rosy bee-eater
- Royal tern
- Royal tern
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous cisticola
- Rufous flycatcher-thrush
- Rufous-bellied helmet-shrike
- Rufous-cheeked nightjar
- Rufous-chested swallow
- Rufous-crowned eremomela
- Rufous-napped-lark
- Rufous-necked wryneck
- Rufous-rumped lark
- Rufous-sided broadbill
- Rufous-tailed rock thrush
- Rufous-tailed scrub robin
- Rufous-vented paradise flycatcher
- Ruppell’s griffon
- Rwenzori hill babbler
- Sabine’s spine-tail
- Sacred ibis
- Saddle-billed stork
- Saker falcon
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sandwich tern
- Scaly francolin
- Scarce swift
- Schlegel’s francolin
- Scissor-tailed kite
- Secretary bird
- Sedge warbler
- Senegal coucal
- Senegal eremomela
- Senegal parrot
- Senegal thick-knee
- Sharpe’s drongo
- Shikra
- Shinning drongo
- Shinning-blue kingfisher
- Shoebill stork
- Siffling cisticola
- Simple greenbul
- Singing bush-lark
- Singing cisticola
- Sjostedt’s greenbul
- Sjostedt’s owlet
- Sladen’s barbet
- Slender-billed greenbul
- Slender-billed weaver
- Small buttonquail
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Solitary sandpiper
- Sooty boubou
- Sooty chat
- Sooty flycatcher
- Sooty shearwater
- Sooty tern
- Southern hyliota
- Southern-faced owl
- Speckle-breasted woodpecker
- Speckled mouse bird
- Speckled pigeon
- Speckled tinkerbird
- Speckle-fronted weaver
- Spectacled weaver
- Splendid glossy-starling
- Spot-breasted ibis
- Spotted crake
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted greenbul
- Spotted honeyguide
- Spotted redshank
- Spotted thick-knee
- Spur-winged goose
- Spur-winged lapwing
- Squacco heron
- Square-tailed nightjar
- Square-tailed sawwing
- Standard-winged nightjar
- Steppe eagle
- Stone partridge
- Stout cisticola
- Streaky-breasted flufftail
- Striated heron
- Striped crake
- Striped kingfisher
- Sub-alpine warbler
- Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
- Sun lark
- Swallow-tailed bee-eater
- Swamp flycatcher
- Swamp greenbul
- Tambourine dove
- Tawny eagle
- Tawny pipit
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Temmnick’s courser
- Temmnick’s stint
- Tessmann’s flycatcher
- Thick-billed cuckoo
- Thick-billed honeyguide
- Thick-billed seedeater
- Thick-billed weaver
- Tit-hylia
- Tree pipit
- Tropical boubou
- Tullberg’s woodpecker
- Variable indigobird
- Velvet-mantled drongo
- Vermiculated fishing owl
- Verreaux’s eagle
- Verreaux’s eagle-owl
- Vieillot’s barbet
- Vieillot’s weaver
- Village indigobird
- Village weaver
- Vinaceous dove
- Violet turaco
- Violet-backed hyliota
- Vitelline masked weaver
- Wahlberg’s eagle
- Wahlberg’s honey guide
- Waller’s starling
- Water thick-knee
- Wattled starling
- West African seedeater
- Western black-headed oriole
- Western blue-bill
- Western bonelli’s warbler
- Western Boubou
- Western bronze-napped pigeon
- Western mountain greenbul
- Western Nicator
- Western olivaceous warbler
- Western orphean warbler
- Western plantain eater
- Western reef-heron
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- Whistling cisticola
- White -backed night-heron
- White crested bittern
- White stork
- White wagtail
- White-backed duck
- White-backed vulture
- White-bearded greenbul
- White-bellied bustard
- White-bellied crested flycatcher
- White-bellied kingfisher
- White-bellied robin-chat
- White-billed buffalo-weaver
- 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-helmet-shrike
- White-napped pigeon
- White-Rumped seedeater
- White-rumped swift
- White-spotted flufftail
- White-spotted wattle-eye
- White-tailed ant-thrush
- White-tailed tropical bird
- White-tailed warbler
- White-thighed hornbill
- White-throated bee-eater
- White-throated blue-swallow
- White-throated francolin
- White-throated greenbul
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widowbird
- Willock’s honey guide
- Willow warbler
- Wilson’s storm petrel
- 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 bishop
- Yellow long-bill
- Yellow-bellied hyliota
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
- Yellow-billed barbet
- Yellow-billed ox-pecker
- Yellow-billed shrike
- Yellow-billed stork
- Yellow-billed turaco
- Yellow-breasted Apalis
- Yellow-browed cameroptera
- Yellow-capped weaver
- Yellow-crested woodpecker
- Yellow-crowned bishop
- Yellow-footed flycatcher
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
- Yellow-mantled weaver
- Yellow-mantled widowbird
- Yellow-necked greenbul
- Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
- Yellow-spotted barbet
- Yellow-spotted petronia
- Yellow-throated cuckoo
- Yellow-throated greenbul
- Yellow-throated longclaw
- Yellow-throated nicator
- Yellow-throated tinkerbird
- Yellow-whiskered greenbul
- Zebra waxbill
- Zenker’s honeyguide
- Zitting cisticola
Best time for Birding in Equatorial Guinea
The dry season is the best time to visit Equatorial Guinea, but it occurs at different times on the islands and continent. Bioko Island is driest from November to February when overcast skies and 25°C temps are the norms, and sea turtles nest on the southern beaches. The mainland is generally driest from June to August.
