List of Birds of Burundi

Though Burundi has lost most of its habitat for birds the 3 national parks of Kibira, Rusizi, and Ruvubu national parks still provide great habitat for the breeding of the few but threatened species of birds.

Wilderness Explores Africa her brings you the complete list of birds of Burundi, the list will help clients tick and check bird species during their birding safari.

1. Abdim’s stork
2. Abyssinian crimson-wing
3. Abyssinian ground thrush
4. Abyssinian nightjar
5. Abyssinian thrush
6. Afep pigeon
7. African black duck
8. African black-headed oriole
9. African blue flycatcher
10. African broadbill
11. African crake
12. African crested flycatcher
13. African cuckoo
14. African darter
15. African dusky flycatcher
16. African emerald cuckoo
17. African finfoot
18. African firefinch
19. African fish eagle
20. African golden oriole
21. African goshawk
22. African grass owl
23. African gray hornbill
24. African gray woodpecker
25. African green pigeon
26. African harrier-hawk
27. African hawk-eagle
28. African hobby
29. African jacana
30. African mash-harrier
31. African mourning dove
32. African open bill
33. African palm swift
34. African paradise flycatcher
35. African penduline tit
36. African pied wagtail
37. African pipit
38. African pitta
39. African pygmy goose
40. African pygmy kingfisher
41. African rail
42. African reed warbler
43. African scops owl
44. African skimmer
45. African snipe
46. African spoonbill
47. African stone-chat
48. African swamphen
49. African swift
50. African thrush
51. African wood owl
52. African yellow warbler
53. African yellow white-eye
54. Albertine sooty boubou
55. Allen’s gallinule
56. Alpine swift
57. Amethyst sunbird
58. Amur falcon
59. Angola swallow
60. Archer’s robin chat
61. Arnot’s chat
62. Arrow-marked babbler
63. Ashy flycatcher
64. Ayres’s hawk eagle
65. Baglafecht weaver
66. Baillon’s crake
67. Banded martin
68. Banded prinia
69. Banded snake eagle
70. Bank swallow
71. Bare-faced go-away bird
72. Barn owl
73. Barn swallow
74. Barred long-tailed cuckoo
75. Bar-tailed godwit
76. Bat hawk
77. Bateleur

1. Bearded woodpecker
2. Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
3. Bennett’s woodpecker
4. Black coucal
5. Black crake
6. Black cuckoo
7. Black cuckoo shrike
8. Black goshawk
9. Black heron
10. Black kite
11. Black saw wing
12. Black stork
13. Black tern
14. Black-and-white casqued hornbill
15. Black-and-white mannikin
16. Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
17. Black-backed barbet
18. Black-backed puffback
19. Black-bellied bustard
20. Black-bellied plover
21. Black-billed turaco
22. Black-billed weaver
23. Black-chested snake-eagle
24. Black-chinned quail finch
25. Black-collared apalis
26. Black-collared barbet
27. Black-crowned night-heron
28. Black-crowned tchagra
29. Black-crowned waxbill
30. Black-faced apalis
31. Black-faced canary
32. Black-headed gonolek
33. Black-headed gull
34. Black-headed heron
35. Black-headed waxbill
36. Black-headed weaver
37. Black-lored babbler
38. Black-necked weaver
39. Black-shouldered nightjar
40. Blacksmith plover
41. Black-tailed godwit
42. Black-tailed oriole
43. Black-throated apalis
44. Black-throated canary
45. Black-throated wattle-eye
46. Black-winged bishop
47. Black-winged kite
48. Black-winged oriole
49. Black-winged pratincole
50. Black-winged stilt
51. Blue malkoha
52. Blue quail
53. Blue-breasted bee-eater
54. Blue-breasted cordonbleu
55. Blue-breasted kingfisher
56. Blue-cheeked bee-eater
57. Blue-headed coucal
58. Blue-headed sunbird
59. Blue-napped mouse bird
60. Blue-spotted wood-dove
61. Blue-throated roller
62. Booted eagle
63. Brimstone canary
64. Broad-billed roller
65. Broad-billed sandpiper
66. Broad-tailed paradise whydah
67. Bronze mannikin
68. Bronze sunbird
69. Bronze-winged courser
70. Brown babbler
71. Brown illadopsis
72. Brown snake eagle
73. Brown woodland warbler
74. Brown-backed scrub-robin
75. Brown-chested alethe
76. Brown-chested lapwing
77. Brown-crowned tchagra

1. Brown-eared woodpecker
2. Brown-hooded kingfisher
3. Brown-necked parrot
4. Brown-throated wattle-eye
5. Brubru
6. Buff-spotted flufftail
7. Buff-throated apalis
8. Cabanis’s greenbul
9. Cape canary
10. Cape crombec
11. Cape teal
12. Cape wagtail
13. Cardinal quelea
14. Cardinal woodpecker
15. Carruther’s cisticola
16. Caspian gull
17. Caspian plover
18. Caspian tern
19. Cassin’s hawk eagle
20. Cattle egret
21. Chestnut-flanked sparrow-hawk
22. Chestnut-throated apalis
23. Chestnut-winged starling
24. Chinspot batis
25. Chirping cisticola
26. Chubb’s cisticola
27. Cinnamon bracken warbler
28. Cinnamon-breasted bunting
29. Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
30. Collared flycatcher
31. Collared palm-thrush
32. Collared pratincole
33. Collared sunbird
34. Common bulbul
35. Common buzzard
36. Common cuckoo
37. Common green shank
38. Common house martin
39. Common pochard
40. Common redshank
41. Common sandpiper
42. Common scimitarbill
43. Common snipe
44. Common swift
45. Common tern
46. Common waxbill
47. Common-ringed plover
48. Compact weaver
49. Copper sunbird
50. Coqui francolin
51. Corn crake
52. Crested barbet
53. Crimson-rumped waxbill
54. Croaking cisticola
55. Crowned eagle
56. Crowned hornbill
57. Crowned lapwing
58. Curlew sandpiper
59. Dark chanting goshawk
60. Denham’s bustard
61. Dideric cuckoo
62. Doherty’s bush shrike
63. Double-toothed barbet
64. Dunlin
65. Dusky crimson-wing
66. Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
67. Dusky turtle dove
68. Dusky twin-spot
69. Dusky-blue flycatcher
70. Dwarf bittern
71. Dwarf honeyguide
72. Eared grebe
73. Eastern mountain greenbul
74. Eastern olivaceous warbler
75. Eastern plantain eater
76. Eastern-olive sunbird
77. Egyptian goose

1. Egyptian plover
2. Emerald-spotted wood-dove
3. Equatorial akalat
4. Eurasian blackcap
5. Eurasian curlew
6. Eurasian hobby
7. Eurasian hoopoe
8. Eurasian kestrel
9. Eurasian marsh-harrier
10. Eurasian moorhen
11. Eurasian nightjar
12. Eurasian reed warbler
13. Eurasian scop’s owl
14. Eurasian wigeon
15. European bee-eater
16. European honey-buzzard
17. European roller
18. Familiar chat
19. Fan-tail grass bird
20. Fan-tailed widowbird
21. Fawn-breasted waxbill
22. Fiery-necked nightjar
23. Fischer’s lovebird
24. Fischer’s sparrow-lark
25. Flappet lark
26. Forbes plover
27. Forest weaver
28. Fork-tailed drongo
29. Freckled nightjar
30. Fuelleborn’s boubou
31. Fulvous whistling duck
32. Gabar goshawk
33. Garden warbler
34. Garganey
35. Giant kingfisher
36. Glossy ibis
37. Golden-backed weaver
38. Golden-breasted bunting
39. Golden-tailed woodpecker
40. Goliath heron
41. Grasshopper buzzard
42. Grauer’s scrub warbler
43. Grauer’s warbler
44. Gray apalis
45. Gray cuckoo shrike
46. Gray heron
47. Gray kestrel
48. Gray parrot
49. Gray wagtail
50. Gray-backed fiscal
51. Gray-capped warbler
52. Gray-chested babbler
53. Gray-crowned crane
54. Gray-headed gull
55. Gray-headed kingfisher
56. Gray-headed negro-finch
57. Gray-headed sunbird
58. Gray-rumped swallow
59. Gray-throated barbet
60. Gray-tit flycatcher
61. Gray-winged robin-chat
62. Great cormorant
63. Great crested grebe
64. Great egret intermediate egret
65. Great reed warbler
66. Great snipe
67. Great white pelican
68. Greater blue-eared glossy starling
69. Greater double-collared sunbird
70. Greater flamingo
71. Greater honeyguide
72. Greater painted-snipe
73. Greater sand-plover
74. Greater swamp warbler
75. Great-spotted cuckoo
76. Green hylia
77. Green sandpiper

1. Green wood hoopoe
2. Green-backed camaroptera
3. Green-backed twinspot
4. Green-backed woodpecker
5. Greencap eremomela
6. Green-headed sunbird
7. Green-throated sunbird
8. Green-winged pytilia
9. Green-winged teal
10. Grey-headed bush shrike
11. Grosbeak weaver
12. Gull-billed tern
13. Hadada ibis
14. Hamerkop
15. Handsome francolin
16. Harlequin quail
17. Hartlaub’s babbler
18. Helmeted guineafowl
19. Herring gull
20. Highland rush warbler
21. Hildebrandt’s francolin
22. Holub’s golden weaver
23. Hooded vulture
24. Horus swift
25. Hottentot teal
26. Hueglin’s masked-weaver
27. Icterine warbler
28. Kandt’s waxbill
29. Kentish plover
30. Kitilitz’s plover
31. Klaas’s cuckoo
32. Knob-billed duck
33. Kurrichane thrush
34. Lagden’s bush shrike
35. Lanner falcon
36. Lappet-faced vulture
37. Laughing dove
38. Least honeyguide
39. Lemon dove
40. Lesser black-backed gull
41. Lesser blue-eared glossy starling
42. Lesser flamingo
43. Lesser gray shrike
44. Lesser honeyguide
45. Lesser jacana
46. Lesser kestrel
47. Lesser moorhen
48. Lesser sand-plover
49. Lesser stripped swallow
50. Lesser swamp warbler
51. Lesser-crested tern
52. Lesser-spotted eagle
53. Leuhder’s bush shrike
54. Levaillant’s cuckoo
55. Lilac-breasted roller
56. Little bee-eater
57. Little bittern
58. Little crake
59. Little egret
60. Little grebe
61. Little greenbul
62. Little rush warbler
63. Little sparrow hawk
64. Little stint
65. Little swift
66. Little tern
67. Little weaver
68. Little-ringed plover
69. Livingstone’s turaco
70. Lizard buzzard
71. Long-billed pipit
72. Long-crested eagle
73. Long-tailed cormorant
74. Long-tailed hawk
75. Long-tailed nightjar
76. Long-toed lapwing
77. Maccoa duck

1. Mackinnon’s shrike
2. Madagascar bee-eater
3. Madagascar cuckoo
4. Madagascar pond-heron
5. Magpie mannikin
6. Malachite kingfisher
7. Malachite sunbird
8. Marabou stork
9. Mariqua sunbird
10. Marsh owl
11. Marsh sandpiper
12. Marsh tchagra
13. Marsh warbler
14. Martial eagle
15. Meyer’s parrot
16. Miombo rock thrush
17. Miombo scrub-robin
18. Mocking cliff-chat
19. Montagu’s harrier
20. Montane nightjar
21. Mosque swallow
22. Mottled swift
23. Mountain buzzard
24. Mountain illadopsis
25. Mountain sooty boubou
26. Mountain wagtail
27. Mountain yellow warbler
28. Moustached grass warbler
29. Namaqua dove
30. Narina trogon
31. Neumann’s warbler
32. Northern brown-throated weaver
33. Northern carmine bee-eater
34. Northern double-collared sunbird
35. Northern fiscal
36. Northern pintail
37. Northern puffback
38. Northern shoveler
39. Northern wheatear
40. Olive woodpecker
41. Olive-bellied sunbird
42. Orange bishop
43. Orange-cheeked waxbill
44. Orange-winged pytilia
45. Oriole finch
46. Osprey
47. Ovambo sparrow hawk
48. Pacific golden-plover
49. Pale flycatcher
50. Pale-breasted illadopsis
51. Pallid harrier
52. Palm-nut vulture
53. Papyrus canary
54. Papyrus gonolek
55. Papyrus yellow warbler
56. Parasitic weaver
57. Pearl-spotted owlet
58. Pectoral sandpiper
59. Pennant-winged nightjar
60. Peregrine falcon
61. Peters’s twin-spot
62. Pied avocet
63. Pied crow
64. Pied cuckoo
65. Pied kingfisher
66. Pink-backed pelican
67. Pink-footed puffback
68. Pin-tailed whydah
69. Plain martin
70. Plain nightjar
71. Plain-backed pipit
72. Purple heron
73. Purple-breasted sunbird
74. Purple-crested turaco
75. Purple-headed starling
76. Quail finch
77. Rameron pigeon

1. Rattling cisticola
2. Red bishop
3. Red-backed scrub-robin
4. Red-backed shrike
5. Red-billed duck
6. Red-billed firefinch
7. Red-billed ox-pecker
8. Red-billed quelea
9. Red-capped lark
10. Red-capped robin-chat
11. Red-cheeked cordonbleu
12. Red-chested cuckoo
13. Red-chested flufftail
14. Red-chested owlet
15. Red-chested sunbird
16. Red-collared widowbird
17. Red-eyed dove
18. Red-faced barbet
19. Red-faced cisticola
20. Red-faced crimson-wing
21. Red-faced crombec
22. Red-faced woodland warbler
23. Red-footed falcon
24. Red-footed tinkerbird
25. Red-headed bluebill
26. Red-headed lovebird
27. Red-headed quelea
28. Red-headed weaver
29. Red-knobbed coot
30. Red-necked dove
31. Red-necked falcon
32. Red-necked francolin
33. Red-necked francolin
34. Red-necked phalarope
35. Red-rumped swallow
36. Red-throated alethe
37. Red-throated pipit
38. Red-winged francolin
39. Regal sunbird
40. Reichard’s seed-eater
41. Rock martin
42. Rock pratincole
43. Ross’s turaco
44. Ruaha chat
45. Ruddy turnstone
46. Ruff
47. Rufous flycatcher-thrush
48. Rufous-bellied heron
49. Rufous-cheeked nightjar
50. Rufous-chested swallow
51. Rufous-napped lark
52. Rufous-necked wryneck
53. Rufous-tailed rock thrush
54. Ruppell’s glossy starling
55. Rwenzori apalis
56. Rwenzori batis
57. Rwenzori hill babbler
58. Rwenzori turaco
59. Sacred ibis
60. Saddle-billed stork
61. Saker falcon
62. Sanderling
63. Scaly francolin
64. Scaly-breasted illadopsis
65. Scaly-throated honeyguide
66. Scarce swift
67. Scarlet-chested sunbird
68. Schalow’s turaco
69. Scissor-tailed kite
70. Secretary bird
71. Sedge warbler
72. Semi-collared flycatcher
73. Senegal coucal
74. Senegal lapwing
75. Sharpe’s starling
76. Shelley’s crimson-wing
77. Shelley’s greenbul

1. Shikra
2. Shinning-blue kingfisher
3. Shoebill stork
4. Short-tailed pipit
5. Siffling cisticola
6. Singing cisticola
7. Slender-billed greenbul
8. Slender-billed starling
9. Slender-billed weaver
10. Small button quail
11. Snowy-crowned robin-chat
12. Somber nightjar
13. Sooty chat
14. Southern black flycatcher
15. Southern carmine bee-eater
16. Southern fiscal
17. Southern ground hornbill
18. Southern pochard
19. Southern white-faced owl
20. Souza’s shrike
21. Speckled mouse bird
22. Speckled pigeon
23. Spectacled weaver
24. Splendid glossy-starling
25. Spot-breasted ibis
26. Spot-flanked barbet
27. Spotted crake
28. Spotted eagle-owl
29. Spotted flycatcher
30. Spotted redshank
31. Spotted thick-knee
32. Spur-winged goose
33. Spur-winged lapwing
34. Squacco heron
35. Square-tailed nightjar
36. Star-spotted nightjar
37. Steppe eagle
38. Stout cisticola
39. Strange weaver
40. Streaky seed-eater
41. Streaky-breasted flufftail
42. Striated heron
43. Strip-breasted tit
44. Stripped crake
45. Stripped kingfisher
46. Stripped pipit
47. Stuhlmann’s starling
48. Stuhlmann’s sunbird
49. Sulfur-breasted bush shrike
50. Swallow-tailed bee-eater
51. Swamp flycatcher
52. Swamp nightjar
53. Tambourine dove
54. Tawny eagle
55. Tawny-flanked prinia
56. Temmnick’s courser
57. Temmnick’s stint
58. Terek sandpiper
59. Thick-billed cuckoo
60. Thick-billed honeyguide
61. Thick-billed seed-eater
62. Three-banded plover
63. Tinkling cisticola
64. Tree pipit
65. Trilling cisticola
66. Tropical boubou
67. Trumpeter hornbill
68. Tullberg’s woodpecker
69. Variable indigobird
70. Variable Sunbird
71. Verreaux’s eagle
72. Verreaux’s eagle owl
73. Vieillot’s weaver
74. Village indigobird
75. Village weaver
76. Violet-backed starling
77. Wahlberg’s eagle

1. Wahlberg’s honeyguide
2. Waller’s starling
3. Water thick-knee
4. Wattled lapwing
5. Wattled starling
6. Western black-headed batis
7. Western citril
8. Western violet-backed sunbird
9. Western yellow wag-tail
10. Whimbrel
11. Whinchat
12. Whiskered tern
13. Whistling cisticola
14. White helmet shrike
15. White stork
16. White wagtail
17. White-backed duck
18. White-backed night-heron
19. White-backed vulture
20. White-bellied crested flycatcher
21. White-breasted Cuckoo shrike
22. White-browed coucal
23. White-browed crombec
24. White-browed robin-chat
25. White-chinned Prinia
26. White-collared olive-back
27. White-eyed slaty-flycatcher
28. White-faced whistling duck
29. White-fronted bee-eater
30. White-fronted plover
31. White-headed lapwing
32. White-headed sawwing
33. White-headed vulture
34. White-headed wood hoopoe
35. White-necked raven
36. White-rumped swift
37. White-spotted flufftail
38. White-starred robin
39. White-tailed blue flycatcher
40. White-tailed crested flycatcher
41. White-throated bee-eater
42. White-winged black tit
43. White-winged scrub warbler
44. White-winged tern
45. White-winged widowbird
46. Whit-fronted black-chat
47. Willard’s sooty boubou
48. Willow warbler
49. Winding cisticola
50. Wing-snapping cisticola
51. Wire-tailed swallow
52. Wood sandpiper
53. White-eyed slaty-flycatcher
54. White-faced whistling duck
55. White-fronted bee-eater
56. White-fronted plover
57. White-headed lapwing
58. White-headed sawwing
59. White-headed vulture
60. White-headed wood hoopoe
61. White-necked raven
62. White-rumped swift
63. White-spotted flufftail
64. White-starred robin
65. White-tailed blue flycatcher
66. White-tailed crested flycatcher
67. White-throated bee-eater
68. White-winged black tit
69. White-winged scrub warbler
70. White-winged tern
71. White-winged widowbird
72. Whit-fronted black-chat
73. Willard’s sooty boubou
74. Willow warbler
75. Winding cisticola
76. Wing-snapping cisticola
77. Wire-tailed swallow

1. Wood sandpiper
2. Woodchat shrike
3. Woodland kingfisher
4. Woodland pipit
5. Woolly-necked stork
6. Yellow bishop
7. Yellow-bellied hyliota
8. Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
9. Yellow-bellied waxbill

1. Yellow-billed barbet
2. Yellow-billed duck
3. Yellow-billed ox-pecker
4. Yellow-billed stork
5. Yellow-breasted apalis
6. Yellow-collared lovebird
7. Yellow-eyed black-flycatcher
8. Yellow-fronted canary
9. Yellow-fronted tinkerbird

1. Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
2. Yellow-shouldered widowbird
3. Yellow-streaked bulbul
4. Yellow-throated greenbul
5. Yellow-throated longclaw
6. Yellow-whiskered greenbul
7. Zebra waxbill
8. Zitting cisticola