List of Birds of Comoros

Comoros is a superb archipelago of four volcanic and (largely) forested islands between East Africa and Madagascar. As a birding destination, they have much to offer: no less than sixteen endemics – including such desirable species as Comoro Blue Vanga and the monotypic Humblot’s Flycatcher – set in rugged volcanic landscapes fringed by idyllic tropical beaches and linked by good air and road infrastructure.

Grand Comore, the largest and arguably most accessible island, is dominated by the 2361m-high bulk of the Karthala volcano, cloaked at higher altitudes in lush forest and capped by alpine heathland that surrounds its crater (the world’s largest). Here and on the lesser (and inactive) volcanoes at La Grille, as well as at various localities at a lower altitude, no less than five Grande Comore endemics (as well as a further six endemic to the archipelago) are on offer: in order of ease of finding, these are Grande Comoro Drongo, Grande Comoro Brush-Warbler, Humblot’s Flycatcher, Karthala White-eye, and Karthala Scops Owl. Endemics that are largely common and accessible on most of the islands are Comoro Thrush, Comoro Pigeon, Humblot’s Sunbird, Comoro Bulbul, Comoro Fody, and the magnificent Ninga or Comoro Blue Pigeon.

Wilderness explorers Africa has a list of birds of Comoros that you can use while birding in the Comoros Archipelago.

1. African palm-swift
2. African stonechat
3. African swift
4. Allen’s gallinule
5. Anjouan bush warbler
6. Anjouan scops owl
7. Anjouan sunbird
8. Bam swallow
9. Bank swallow
10. Barn owl
11. Bar-tailed godwit
12. Bat hawk
13. Black kite
14. Black-bellied plover
15. Black-crowned night-heron
16. Black-napped tern
17. Black-tailed godwit
18. Blue vanga
19. Blue-cheeked bee-eater
20. Bridled tern
21. Broad-billed roller
22. Bronze mannikin
23. Brown booby
24. Brown noddy
25. Caspian tern
26. Cattle egret
27. Common buzzard
28. Common cuckoo
29. Common greenshank
30. Common myna
31. Common quail
32. Common ringed plover
33. Common sandpiper
34. Common swift
35. Common tern
36. Common-house martin
37. Comoro blue pigeon
38. Comoro drongo
39. Comoro pigeon
40. Comoro scops owl
41. Comoro thrush
42. Comoro white-eye
43. Comoros cuckoo shrike
44. Comoros green pigeon
45. Crab plover
46. Crested drongo
47. Cuckoo roller
48. Curlew sandpiper
49. Darter
50. Eleonora’s falcon
51. Eurasian curlew
52. Eurasian golden oriole

1. Eurasian moorhen
2. European roller
3. European turtle dove
4. France’s sparrowhawk
5. Grand Comoro bulbul
6. Grand Comoro bush warbler
7. Grand Comoro flycatcher
8. Gray heron
9. Gray-headed gull
10. Gray-headed lovebird
11. Great crested tern
12. Great egret
13. Great frigate bird
14. Greater flamingo
15. Greater sand-plover
16. Greater vasa parrot
17. Gull-billed Tern
18. Harlequin quail
19. Helmeted guineafowl
20. House sparrow
21. Humblot’s heron
22. Humblot’s sunbird
23. Lesser black-backed gull
24. Lesser crested tern
25. Lesser flamingo
26. Lesser frigatebird
27. Lesser gray shrike
28. Lesser Noddy
29. Lesser sand-plover
30. Lesser vasa parrot
31. Little egret
32. Little grebe
33. Little stint
34. Little tern
35. Madagascan nightjar
36. Madagascar bee-eater
37. Madagascar bulbul
38. Madagascar cisticola
39. Madagascar coucal
40. Madagascar heron
41. Madagascar Kestrel
42. Madagascar paradise flycatcher
43. Madagascar pond-heron
44. Madagascar pratincole
45. Madagascar sunbird
46. Madagascar swift
47. Madagascar white-eye
48. Malagasy kingfisher
49. Malagasy spinetail
50. Malagasy turtle dove
51. Marsh sandpiper
52. Mascarene martin

1. Masked booby
2. Moheli brush warbler
3. Moheli bulbul
4. Moheli scops owl
5. Mottled spinetail
6. Northern wheatear
7. Pacific golden-plover
8. Peregrine falcon
9. Pied crow
10. Pintail snipe
11. Red fody
12. Red-footed booby
13. Red-headed fody
14. Red-tailed tropical bird
15. Ring-necked dove
16. Rock pigeon
17. Ruddy turnstone
18. Ruff
19. Sacred ibis
20. Sanderling
21. Senegal lapwing
22. Slender-billed curlew
23. Sooty tern
24. Souimanga sunbird
25. Sounders’s tern
26. South polar skua
27. Spotted flycatcher
28. Squacco heron
29. Striated heron
30. Striped crake
31. Tambourine dove
32. Terek sandpiper
33. Three-banded plover
34. Tree pipit
35. Tropical shearwater
36. Verreaux’s eagle-owl
37. Wedge-tailed shearwater
38. Western yellow wagtail
39. Western-reef heron
40. Whimbrel
41. White tern
42. White wagtail
43. White-faced whistling duck
44. White-fronted Plover
45. White-tailed tropical bird
46. Willow warbler
47. Wood sandpiper
48. Wood warbler
49. Humblot’s flycatcher
50. Karthala scops Owl