List of Birds of Guinea

With a list of over 600 species including little-known species like Turati’s Boubou and Emerald Starling in a country the size of Britain, birding can be done almost anywhere in Guinea and there are good sites near the capital, Conakry. Few birders, however, have visited the country and it is much under-watched ornithological. Potential opportunities exist therefore for the more adventurous traveler or ornithologist.

• Abyssinian ground hornbill
• Abyssinian roller
• Afep pigeon
• African black duck
• African blue-flycatcher
• African broadbill
• African crake
• African cuckoo
• African cuckoo-hawk
• African darter
• African dwarf kingfisher
• African emerald cuckoo
• African finfoot
• African firefinch
• African fish-eagle
• African forest flycatcher
• African golden oriole
• African gray hornbill
• African gray woodpecker
• African green pigeon
• African harrier-hawk
• African hawk eagle
• African hill babbler
• African hobby
• African jacana
• 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 scops owl
• African shrike flycatcher
• African silverbill
• African skimmer
• African spoonbill
• African spotted creeper
• African stonechat
• African thrush
• African wood owl
• African yellow white-eye
• Ahanta francolin
• Akun eagle-owl
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine swift
• Ansorge’s greenbul
• Arctic tern
• Ashy flycatcher
• Ayres’s hawk eagle
• Baillon’s crake
• Baka indigobird
• Balearic shearwater
• Ballman’s malimbe
• Banded prinia
• Banded snake-eagle
• Bank swallow
• Bar-breasted firefinch
• Bare-cheeked trogon
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Bat hawk
• Bateleur
• Bates’s swift
• Baumann’s greenbul
• Bearded barbet
• Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
• Beautiful sunbird
• Black bee-eater
• Black coucal
• Black crake
• Black cuckoo
• Black dwarf hornbill
• Black goshawk
• Black heron
• Black kite
• Black scimitar-bill
• 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 wood dove
• Blackcap babbler
• Blackcap illadopsis
• Black-capped apalis
• Black-capped rufous warbler
• Black-capped woodland warbler
• Black-casqued hornbill
• Black-chinned quailfinch
• Black-crowned crane
• Black-crowned night heron
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-crowned waxbill
• Black-faced firefinch
• Black-faced quailfinch
• Black-headed gull
• Black-headed heron
• Black-headed lapwing
• Black-headed paradise flycatcher
• Black-headed weaver
• Black-necked cisticola
• Black-necked wattle-eye
• Black-necked weaver
• Black-rumped waxbill
• Black-shouldered nightjar
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-throated coucal
• Black-winged bishop
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged oriole
• Blue cuckoo-shrike
• Blue malkoha
• Blue moustached bee-eater
• Blue quail
• Blue-bellied roller
• Blue-breasted bee-eater
• Blue-breasted kingfisher
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-headed coucal
• Blue-headed crested flycatcher
• Blue-headed wood dove
• Blue-shouldered robin-chat
• Blue-spotted wood dove
• Blue-throated brown sunbird
• Blue-throated roller
• Bocage’s akalat
• Broad-billed roller
• Bronze mannikin
• Bronze-tailed glossy-starling
• Bronze-winged courser
• Brown babbler
• Brown bobby
• Brown illadopsis
• Brown snake-eagle
• Brown-backed woodpecker
• Brown-cheeked hornbill
• Brown-crowned tchagra
• Brown-eared woodpecker
• Brown-rumped bunting
• Brown-throated wattle-eye
• Brubru
• Bruce’s green pigeon
• Buff-spotted flufftail
• Buff-spotted woodpecker
• Buff-throated sunbird
• Bush petronia
• Cabanis’s bunting
• Cameroon indigobird
• Capuchin babbler
• Cardinal woodpecker
• Carmelite sunbird
• Caspian tern
• Cassin’s hawk-eagle
• Cassin’s honeyguide
• Cassin’s spinetail
• Cattle egret
• Chattering cisticola
• Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
• Chestnut-bellied shrike
• Chestnut-bellied starling
• Chestnut-breasted nigrita
• Chestnut-capped flycatcher
• Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
• Chestnut-winged starling
• Chocolate-backed kingfisher
• Collared pratincole
• Collared sunbird
• Common bulbul
• Common gonolek
• Common grasshopper warbler
• Common house-martin
• Common nightingale
• Common quail
• Common redshank
• Common redstart
• Common ringed plover
• Common sandpiper
• Common snipe
• Common swift
• Common tern
• Common waxbill
• Compact weaver
• Congo serpent-eagle
• Copper sunbird
• Copper-tailed starling
• Crested guineafowl
• Crested lark
• Crested malimbe
• Crimson seed-cracker
• Croaking cisticola
• Crowned eagle
• Curlew sandpiper
• Cut-throat
• Dark-chanting goshawk
• Denham’s bustard
• Dideric cuckoo
• Double-spurred francolin
• Double-toothed barbet
• Dunlin
• Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
• Dusky tit
• Dusky-blue flycatcher
• Dusky-crested flycatcher
• Dwarf bittern
• Dybowsky’s twinspot
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Eastern olive sunbird
• Egyptian goose

• Egyptian plover
• Egyptian vulture
• Elliot’s woodpecker
• Emerald starling
• Ethiopian swallow
• Eurasian blackcap
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian kestrel
• Eurasian marsh-harrier
• Eurasian moorhen
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scops owl
• Eurasian tree sparrow
• Eurasian turtle dove
• European bee-eater
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European storm petrel
• Familiar chat
• Fan-tailed grassbird
• Fanti sawwing
• Fea’s petrel
• Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
• Fiery-necked nightjar
• Fine-spotted woodpecker
• Finsch’s flycatcher thrush
• Fire-bellied woodpecker
• Flappet lark
• Forbe’s plover
• Forest robin
• Forest scrub robin
• Forest swallow
• Forest wood hoopoe
• Four-banded sandgrouse
• Fox kestrel
• Fraser’s eagle-owl
• Freckled nightjar
• Fulvous-whistling duck
• Gabar goshawk
• Gabon woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Ghana cuckoo-shrike
• Giant kingfisher
• Glossy-backed drongo
• Golden greenbul
• Golden-tailed woodpecker
• Goliath heron
• Gosling’s bunting
• Grasshopper buzzard
• Gray greenbul
• Gray heron
• Gray kestrel
• Gray longbill
• Gray pratincole
• Gray tit-flycatcher
• Gray’s malimbe
• Gray-green bush shrike
• Gray-headed bristlebill
• Gray-headed broadbill
• Gray-headed bush-shrike
• Gray-headed gull
• Gray-headed kingfisher
• Gray-headed nigrita
• Gray-headed oliveback
• Gray-headed sparrow
• Grayish eagle-owl
• Gray-rumped swallow
• Gray-throated barbet
• Gray-throated rail
• Gray-throated rail
• Gray-throated tit-flycatcher
• Great blue turaco
• Great cormorant
• Great egret
• Great reed warbler
• Great skua
• Great white pelican
• Greater blue-eared glossy-starling
• Greater flamingo
• Greater honeyguide
• Greater painted snipe
• Greater swamp warbler
• Great-spotted cuckoo
• Green crombec
• Green hylia
• Green sandpiper
• Green sunbird
• Green wood hoopoe
• Green-backed camaroptera
• Green-backed twinspot
• Green-headed sunbird
• Green-throated sunbird
• Green-winged pytilia
• Grosbeak weaver
• Guinea turaco
• Gull-billed tern
• Hadada ibis
• Hairy-breasted barbet
• Hamerkop
• Hartlaub’s duck
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Heuglin’s masked weaver
• Honeyguide greenbul
• Hooded vulture
• Icterine greenbul
• Intermediate egret
• Jack snipe
• Jambandu indigobird
• Johanna’s sunbird
• Kemp’s longbill
• Kentish plover
• Kitttilitz’s plover
• Klaas’s cuckoo
• Knob-billed duck
• 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 bristlebill
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser honeyguide
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser moorhen
• Lesser-crested tern
• Lesser-striped swallow
• Levaillant’s cuckoo
• Little bee-eater
• Little bittern
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little gray flycatcher
• Little green sunbird
• Little greenbul
• Little ringed plover
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Little weaver
• Little-green woodpecker
• Lizard buzzard
• Long-billed pipit
• Long-crested eagle
• Long-legged pipit
• Long-tailed cormorant
• Long-tailed glossy-starling
• Long-tailed hawk
• Long-tailed jaeger
• Long-tailed nightjar
• Long-tailed paradise-whydah
• Lowland akalat
• Lyre-tailed honeyguide
• Mackinnon’s shrike
• Magpie mannikin
• Malachite kingfisher
• Maned owl
• Manx shearwater
• Many-colored bush-shrike
• Marabou stork
• Marsh owl
• Marsh tchagra
• Martial eagle
• Maxwell’s black weaver
• Melodious warbler
• Mocking cliff chat
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mosque swallow
• Mottled spinetail
• Mottled swift
• Mountain sawwing
• Mountain wagtail
• Mouse-brown sunbird
• Moustached grass warbler
• Naked-faced barbet
• Namaqua dove
• Narina trogon
• Narrow-tailed starling
• Neumann’s starling
• Nimba flycatcher
• Nkulengu rail
• Northern black flycatcher
• Northern carmine bee-eater
• Northern crombec
• Northern fiscal
• Northern paradise whydah
• Northern pintail
• Northern puffback
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Northern white-faced owl
• Olivaceous flycatcher
• Olive long-tailed cuckoo
• Olive-bellied sunbird
• Olive-green camaroptera
• Orange bishop
• Orange weaver
• Orange-cheeked waxbill
• Orange-tufted sunbird
• Oriole warbler
• Ortolan bunting
• Osprey
• Ovambo sparrow-hawk
• Pale flycatcher
• Pale-breasted illadopsis
• Pale-fronted nigrita
• Pale-winged indigobird
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Palm-nut vulture
• Parasitic jaeger
• Parasitic weaver
• Pearl-spotted owlet
• Peregrine falcon
• Piapiac
• Pied crow
• Pied cuckoo
• Pied kingfisher
• Pied-winged swallow
• Pink-backed pelican
• Pin-tailed whydah
• Piping hornbill
• Plain greenbul
• Plain martin
• Plain nightjar
• Plain swift
• Plain-backed pipit
• Pomarine jaeger
• Preuss’s swallow
• Preuss’s weaver
• Purple glossy-starling
• Purple heron
• Purple-headed starling
• Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
• Puvel’s illadopsis
• Pygmy sunbird
• Quailfinch
• Rameron pigeon
• Red knot
• Red phalarope
• Red-billed dwarf hornbill
• Red-billed firefinch
• Red-billed quelea
• Red-billed tropicbird
• Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
• Red-cheeked wattle-eye
• Red-chested cuckoo
• Red-chested goshawk
• Red-chested swallow
• Red-collared widowbird
• Red-crowned malimbe
• Red-eyed dove
• Red-eyed puffback
• Red-faced cisticola
• Red-faced pytilia
• Red-fronted parrot
• 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 prinia
• Red-winged pytilia
• Richard’s pipit
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock pratincole
• Rock-loving cisticola
• Roseate tern
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Rosy bee-eater
• Royal tern
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous cisticola
• Rufous fishing owl
• Rufous-chested swallow
• Rufous-crowned eremomela
• Rufous-crowned roller
• Rufous-napped lark
• Rufous-rumped lark
• Rufous-sided broadbill
• Rufous-tailed palm-thrush
• Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
• Rufous-vented paradise flycatcher
• Rufous-winged illadopsis
• Ruppell’s griffon
• Sabine’s gull
• Sabine’s spinetail
• Sacred ibis
• Saddle-billed stork
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern

• Scarce swift
• Scarlet-chested sunbird
• Scarlet-tufted sunbird
• Sedge warbler
• Senegal batis
• Senegal coucal
• Senegal eremomela
• Senegal lapwing
• Senegal parrot
• Senegal thick-knee
• Sharpe’s apalis
• Shikra
• Shinning blue kingfisher
• Shinning drongo
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Sierra leone prinia
• Siffling cisticola
• Simple greenbul
• Singing bush-lark
• Singing cisticola
• Sjostedt’s owlet
• Slender-billed greenbul
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Snowy-crowned robin chat
• Sooty boubou
• Sooty chat
• Sooty flycatcher
• Speckled mouse bird
• Speckled pigeon
• Speckled tinkerbird
• Speckle-fronted weaver
• Splendid glossy-starling
• Splendid sunbird
• Spot-breasted ibis
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted greenbul
• Spotted honeyguide
• Spotted redshank
• Spur-winged goose
• Spur-winged lapwing
• Squacco heron
• Square-tailed sawwing
• Standard-winged nightjar
• Stone partridge
• Streaky-breasted flufftail
• 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
• Tessmann’s flycatcher
• Thick-billed cuckoo
• Timneh parrot
• Tit-hylia
• Tree pipit
• Tropical boubou
• Tullberg’s woodpecker
• Turati’s boubou
• Ursula’s sunbird
• Ussher’s flycatcher
• Variable sunbird
• Velvet-mantled drongo
• 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
• Vitelline masked weaver
• Wahlberg’s eagle
• Wahlberg’s honeyguide
• Wattled lapwing
• West African seedeater
• West African wattle-eye
• Western black-headed oriole
• Western bluebill
• Western bronze-napped pigeon
• Western nicator
• Western olivaceous warbler
• Western plantain eater
• Western red-billed hornbill
• Western reef heron
• Western square-tailed drongo
• Western violet-backed sunbird
• Western yellow wagtail
• Western-bearded greenbul
• Whimbrel
• Whinchat
• Whiskered tern
• Whistling cisticola
• White stork
• White wagtail
• White-backed night heron
• White-backed vulture
• White-bellied buffalo-weaver
• White-bellied bustard
• White-bellied kingfisher
• White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
• White-breasted guineafowl
• White-breasted nigrita
• White-browed forest flycatcher
• White-crested bittern
• White-crested hornbill
• White-crowned robin-chat
• White-faced whistling duck
• White-fronted black-chat
• White-fronted plover
• White-headed lapwing
• White-headed vulture
• White-helmet shrike
• White-necked rockfowl
• White-rumped seedeater
• White-rumped swift
• White-shouldered black-tit
• White-spotted flufftail
• White-tailed alethe
• White-tailed ant-thrush
• White-tailed warbler
• White-thighed hornbill
• White-throated bee-eater
• White-throated blue swallow
• White-throated francolin
• White-throated greenbul
• White-winged tern
• Willow warbler
• Winding cisticola
• Wire-tailed swallow
• Wood sandpiper
• Wood warbler
• Woodchat shrike
• Wood-house’s ant-pecker
• Woodland kingfisher
• Woolly-necked stork
• Yellow bishop
• Yellow casqued hornbill
• Yellow-bearded greenbul
• Yellow-bellied hyliota
• Yellow-billed barbet
• Yellow-billed ox-pecker
• Yellow-billed shrike
• Yellow-billed stork
• Yellow-billed turaco
• Yellow-browed camaroptera
• Yellow-crowned bishop
• Yellow-footed flycatcher
• Yellow-footed honeyguide
• Yellow-fronted canary
• Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
• Yellow-mantled weaver
• Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
• Yellow-shouldered widowbird
• Yellow-spotted barbet
• 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 Guinea

Birding in Guinea is peaks during June through September period, with July and August being ideal that’s when conditions are favorable and birding areas are more accessible and the weather is favorable.