List of Birds of the DR Congo
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List of Birds of the DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC (previously Zaire) has a bird list consisting of 1,139 species following our checklist mentioned below. This is probably the highest species count for any African country. Since 1996 a civil war and political instability have impacted the habitat adversely as well as limiting opportunities for visiting birders. There is much of interest for the birder to see in the DRC, so one can only hope that opportunities to visit will increase in the future.
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- Abdim’s stork
- Abyssinian crimson-wing
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- Abyssinian ground-thrush
- Abyssinian owl
- Abyssinian roller
- Abyssinian thrush
- Afep pigeon
- African barred owlet
- African black duck
- African black-headed oriole
- African blue flycatcher
- African broadbill
- African crake
- African crested flycatcher
- 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 golden oriole
- African goshawk
- African grass owl
- 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 openbill
- African palm-swift
- African paradise flycatcher
- African penduline tit
- 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 sacred ibis
- African scop’s owl
- African shrike flycatcher
- African skimmer
- African snipe
- African spoonbill
- African spotted creeper
- African stonechat
- African swamphen
- African swift
- African thrush
- African wood owl
- African yellow white-eye
- African yellow-warbler
- Akun eagle-owl
- Albertine boubou
- Albertine owlet
- Allen’s gallinule
- Alpine swift
- Amethyst sunbird
- Anchieta’s barbet
- Anchieta’s sunbird
- Angola batis
- Angola lark
- Angola swallow
- Ansorge’s greenbul
- Archer’s robin-chat
- Arctic tern
- Arnot’s chat
- Arrow-marked babbler
- Ashy flycatcher
- Augur buzzard
- Ayres’s eagle
- Baglafetcht weaver
- Baillon’s crake
- Baka indigobird
- Bamboo warbler
- Banded martin
- Banded prinia
- Banded snake eagle
- Bank swallow
- Bannerman’s sunbird
- Bar-breasted firefinch
- Bare-cheeked trogon
- Bare-faced go-away bird
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Barred long-tailed cuckoo
- Barred warbler
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Bar-tailed trogon
- Bar-winged weaver
- Bat hawk
- Bateleur
- Bates’s nightjar
- Bates’s paradise flycatcher
- Bates’s sunbird
- Bates’s swift
- Bat-like spine-tail
- Baumann’s greenbul
- Bearded vulture
- Bearded woodpecker
- Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
- Beautiful sunbird
- Bedford’s paradise flycatcher
- Bennett’s woodpecker
- Black bee-eater
- Black bishop
- Black casqued hornbill
- Black collared apalis
- Black coucal
- Black crake
- Black cuckoo
- Black cuckoo-shrike
- Black dwarf hornbill
- Black goshawk
- Black guineafowl
- Black headed heron
- Black heron
- Black kite
- Black sawwing
- Black scimitar bill
- Black spine-tail
- Black stork
- Black tern
- Black-and-rufous swallow
- Black-and-white casqued-hornbill
- Black-and-white mannikin
- Black-and-white shrike flycatcher
- Black-backed barbet
- Black-backed cisticola
- Black-backed puffback
- Black-bellied bustard
- Black-bellied firefinch
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-bellied seed-cracker
- Black-billed barbet
- Black-billed turaco
- Black-billed weaver
- Black-billed wood-dove
- Black-breasted barbet
- Blackcap babbler
- Blackcap illadopsis
- Black-capped apalis
- Black-chested snake-eagle
- Black-chinned weaver
- Black-collared barbet
- Black-collared bulbul
- Black-collared lovebird
- Black-crowned crane
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-crowned tchagra
- Black-crowned waxbill
- Black-eared ground-thrush
- Black-eared seedeater
- Black-faced apalis
- Black-faced babbler
- Black-faced canary
- Black-faced firefinch
- Black-faced rufous-warbler
- Black-fronted bush-shrike
- Black-headed bee-eater
- Black-headed gonolek
- Black-headed gull
- Black-headed paradise-flycatcher
- Black-headed waxbill
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-lored babbler
- Black-lored waxbill
- Black-necked eremomela
- Black-necked weaver
- Black-rumped buttonquail
- Black-rumped waxbill
- Black-shouldered nightjar
- Blacksmith plover
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-tailed oriole
- Black-tailed waxbill
- Black-throated apalis
- Black-throated canary
- Black-throated coucal
- Black-throated malimbe
- Black-throated wattle-eye
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged kite
- Black-winged oriole
- Black-winged pratincole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue malkoha
- Blue quail
- Blue-bellied roller
- Blue-billed malimbe
- Blue-breasted bee-eater
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Blue-cuckoo-shrike
- Blue-headed bee-eater
- Blue-headed coucal
- Blue-headed crested flycatcher
- Blue-headed sunbird
- Blue-headed wood-dove
- Blue-napped mouse-bird
- Blue-shouldered robin-chat
- Blue-spotted wood-dove
- Blue-throated brown sunbird
- Blue-throated roller
- Bob-tailed weaver
- Bocage’s akalat
- Bocage’s sunbird
- Bocage’s weaver
- Bohm’s bee-eater
- Bohm’s flycatcher
- Booted eagle
- Boulton’s batis
- Braun’s bush-shrike
- Brazza’s martin
- Brimstone canary
- Bristol-nosed barbet
- Broad-billed roller
- Broad-tailed paradise whydah
- Bronze mannikin
- Bronze sunbird
- Bronze-napped pigeon
- Bronze-tailed starling
- Bronze-winged courser
- Brown babbler
- Brown firefinch
- Brown illadopsis
- Brown nightjar
- Brown parisoma
- Brown snake-eagle
- Brown twin-spot
- Brown woodland-warbler
- Brown-backed scrub-robin
- Brown-backed woodpecker
- Brown-capped weaver
- Brown-chested alethe
- Brown-chested lapwing
- Brown-eared woodpecker
- Brown-headed apalis
- Brown-hooded kingfisher
- Brown-necked parrot
- Brown-rumped bunting
- Brown-throated wattle-eye
- Brubru
- Bruce’s green pigeon
- Bubbling cisticola
- Buff-bellied warbler
- Buff-shouldered widowbird
- Buff-spotted flufftail
- Buff-spotted woodpecker
- Buff-throated apalis
- Buffy pipit
- Cabanis’s bunting
- Cabanis’s greenbul
- Cameroon indigobird
- Cape cormorant
- Cape crombec
- Cape crow
- Cape gannet
- Cape robin-chat
- Cape shoveler
- Cape starling
- Cape teal
- Cape wagtail
- Capped wheatear
- Capuchin babbler
- Cardinal quelea
- Cardinal woodpecker
- Carmelite sunbird
- Carruther’s cisticola
- Caspian plover
- Caspian tern
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Cassin’s hawk eagle
- Cassin’s honeyguide
- Cassin’s spine-tail
- Cattle egret
- Chapin’s flycatcher
- Chapin’s mountain-babbler
- Chattering cisticola
- Chestnut owlet
- Chestnut wattle-eye
- Chestnut-backed sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-breasted nigrita
- Chestnut-capped flycatcher
- Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-flanked sparrow-hawk
- Chestnut-headed flufftail
- Chestnut-throated apalis
- Chestnut-winged starling
- Chinspot batis
- Chirping cisticola
- Chocolate-backed kingfisher
- Chubb’s cisticola
- Cinnamon-bracken warbler
- Cinnamon-breasted bunting
- Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
- Cloud cisticola
- Cloud-scaping cisticola
- Collared flycatcher
- Collared palm-thrush
- Collared pratincole
- Collared sunbird
- Common bulbul
- Common buzzard
- Common chiffchaff
- Common cuckoo
- Common greenshank
- Common house martin
- Common nightingale
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common sandpiper
- Common scimitar-bill
- Common snipe
- Common square-tailed drongo
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Common-ringed plover
- Compact weaver
- Congo martin
- Congo moor chat
- Congo peacock
- Congo serpent eagle
- Congo sunbird
- Congo-bay owl
- Copper sunbird
- Coppery-tailed coucal
- Coqui francolin
- Corn crake
- Crested barbet
- Crested francolin
- Crested guineafowl
- Crested malimbe
- Crimson-rumped waxbill
- Croaking cisticola
- Crossley’s ground-thrush
- Crowned eagle
- Crowned hornbill
- Crowned lapwing
- Curlew sandpiper
- Damara tern
- Dark-chanting goshawk
- Denham’s bustard
- Desert cisticola
- Dickinson’s kestrel
- Dideric cuckoo
- Doherty’s bush-shrike
- Double-toothed barbet
- Dunlin
- Dusky babbler
- Dusky crimson-wing
- Dusky lark
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky tit
- Dusky turtle dove
- Dusky twin-spot
- Dusky-blue flycatcher
- Dusky-crested flycatcher
- Dwarf bittern
- Dwarf honeyguide
- Dybowsky’s twin-spot
- Eastern bearded greenbul
- Eastern miombo sunbird
- Eastern mountain greenbul
- Eastern nicator
- Eastern olivaceous warbler
- Eastern paradise whydah
- Eastern plantain eater
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian plover
- Egyptian vulture
- Eleonora’s falcon
- Elliot’s woodpecker
- Emerald-spotted wood-dove
- Emin’s shrike
- Equatorial akalat
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian hobby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian kestrel
- Eurasian marsh harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian nightjar
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- Eurasian reed warbler
- Eurasian scop’s owl
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian wigeon
- Eurasian wryneck
- European bee-eater
- European honey buzzard
- European pied flycatcher
- European roller
- European turtle dove
- Ever-green forest warbler
- Exclamatory paradise-whydah
- Familiar chat
- Fan-tailed grassbird
- Fan-tailed widowbird
- Fawn-breasted waxbill
- Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
- Fiery-necked nightjar
- Fine-spotted woodpecker
- Finsch’s francolin
- Fire-crested alethe
- Fischer’s greenbul
- Fischer’s sparrow-lark
- Flappet lark
- Forbe’s plover
- Forest penduline tit
- Forest robin
- Forest scrub-robin
- Forest weaver
- Forest wood hoopoe
- Fork-tailed drongo
- Four-colored bush-shrike
- Fox kestrel
- Foxy cisticola
- Fraser’s eagle owl
- Fraser’s sunbird
- Freckled nightjar
- Fuelleborn’s longclaw
- Fulleborn’s boubou
- Fulvous whistling duck
- Gabar goshawk
- Gabon boubou
- Gabon coucal
- Gabon woodpecker
- Gadwall
- Gambaga flycatcher
- Garden warbler
- Garganey
- Giant kingfisher
- Glossy-backed drongo
- Glssy ibis
- Golden greenbul
- Golden-breasted bunting
- Golden-crowned woodpecker
- Golden-napped weaver
- Golden-tailed woodpecker
- Golden-winged sunbird
- Goliath heron
- Gosling’s apalis
- Gosling’s bunting
- Grant’s bluebill
- Grasshopper buzzard
- Grauer’s broadbill
- Grauer’s cuckoo-shrike
- Grauer’s swamp warbler
- Grauer’s warbler
- Gray apalis
- Gray go-away bird
- Gray greenbul
- Gray ground-thrush
- Gray heron
- Gray kestrel
- Gray longbill
- Gray olive greenbul
- Gray parrot
- Gray pratincole
- Gray tit
- Gray wagtail
- Gray-backed fiscal
- Gray-backed sparrow-lark
- Gray-capped warbler
- Gray-crested babbler
- Gray-crowned crane
- Gray-cuckoo-shrike
- Gray-green bush-shrike
- Gray-headed batis
- Gray-headed broadbill
- Gray-headed bush-shrike
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed nigrita
- Gray-headed olive-back
- Gray-headed sunbird
- Gray-hooded gull
- Grayish eagle-owl
- 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 crested grebe
- Great egret
- Great snipe
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Great white pelican
- Greater blue-eared starling
- Greater double-collared sunbird
- Greater flamingo
- Greater honeyguide
- Greater painted snipe
- Greater reed warbler
- Greater sand-plover
- Greater short-toed lark
- Greater stripped swallow
- Greater swamp warbler
- Greater whitethroat
- Green crombec
- Green hylia
- Green indigobird
- Green sandpiper
- Green sunbird
- Green wood hoopoe
- Green-backed camaroptera
- Green-backed eremomela
- Green-backed honeyguide
- Green-backed twin-spot
- Green-backed woodpecker
- Green-breasted pitta
- Greencap eremomela
- Green-headed sunbird
- Green-throated sunbird
- Green-winged pytilia
- Green-winged teal
- Grimwood’s longclaw
- Grosbeak weaver
- Ground scrapper thrush
- Guinea turaco
- Gull-billed tern
- Hadada ibis
- Hairy-breasted barbet
- Half-collared kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Handsome francolin
- Harlequin quail
- Hartlaub’s babbler
- Hartlaub’s duck
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Herring gull
- Heuglin’s francolin
- Heuglin’s masked weaver
- Highland rush warbler
- Hildebrandt’s francolin
- Holub’s golden-weaver
- Honeyguide’s greenbul
- Hooded vulture
- Horus swift
- Hottentot teal
- House sparrow
- Icterine greenbul
- Icterine warbler
- Intermediate egret
- Isabelline shrike
- Isabelline wheatear
- Itombwe nightjar
- Ituri batis
- Jabandu indigobird
- Jack snipe
- Jameson’s ant-pecker
- Jameson’s firefinch
- Jameson’s wattle-eye
- Johanna’s sunbird
- Joyful greenbul
- Kabobo apalis
- Kandt’s waxbill
- Katanga masked weaver
- Kentish plover
- Kitilitz’s plover
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Kungwe apalis
- Kurrichane thrush
- Lagden’s bush-shrike
- Lake lufira masked weaver
- Lanner falcon
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Lark-like bunting
- Latham’s francolin
- Laughing dove
- Laura’s woodland warbler
- Leaf-love
- Least honeyguide
- Lemon dove
- Lemon-bellied crombec
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Lesser blue-eared starling
- Lesser bristle-bill
- Lesser cuckoo
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser gray shrike
- Lesser honeyguide
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser masked weaver
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser sand plover
- Lesser spotted eagle
- Lesser stripped swallow
- Lesser swamp warbler
- Levaillant’s cisticola
- Levaillant’s cuckoo
- Levant sparrow-hawk
- Lilac-breasted roller
- Little bee-eater
- Little bittern
- Little crake
- Little egret
- Little flycatcher
- Little grebe
- Little green sunbird
- Little greenbul
- Little ringed-plover
- Little rush warbler
- Little sparrow-hawk
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little tern
- Little weaver
- Lizard buzzard
- Loango weaver
- Locust-finch
- Long crested eagle
- Long-billed pipit
- Long-legged pipit
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-tailed hawk
- Long-tailed nightjar
- Long-tailed widowbird
- Long-toed lapwing
- Lowland akalat
- Lowland sooty boubou
- Luapula’s cisticola
- Luhder’s bush-shrike
- Lyre-tailed honeyguide
- Maccoa duck
- Mackinnon’s shrike
- Madagascar bee-eater
- Madagascar cuckoo
- Madagascar pond-heron
- Magpie mannikin
- Malachite kingfisher
- Malachite sunbird
- Manned owl
- Many-colored bush-shrike
- Marabou stork
- Marsh owl
- Marsh sandpiper
- Marsh tchagra
- Marsh warbler
- Marsh widowbird
- Martial eagle
- Masked apalis
- Masked shrike
- Maxwell’s black weaver
- Meyer’s parrot
- Miombo barbet
- Miombo rock-thrush
- Miombo scrub-robin
- Miombo tit
- Miombo wren warbler
- Mocking cliff-chat
- Montagu’s harrier
- Montane blue swallow
- Mosque swallow
- Mottled spine-tail
- Mottled swift
- Mountain buzzard
- Mountain illadopsis
- Mountain pipit
- Mountain wagtail
- Mountain yellow-warbler
- Mourning collared dove
- Mouse-brown sunbird
- Moustached grass warbler
- Nahan’s francolin
- Naked-faced barbet
- Namaqua dove
- Narina trogon
- Narrow-tailed starling
- Neumann’s starling
- Neumann’s warbler
- Niam-Niam parrot
- Nkulengu rail
- Northern black flycatcher
- Northern brown-throated weaver
- Northern carmine bee-eater
- Northern crombec
- Northern double-collared sunbird
- Northern fiscal
- Northern gray-headed sparrow
- Northern masked weaver
- Northern pintail
- Northern puffback
- Northern red bishop
- Northern shoveler
- Northern wheatear
- Northern white-faced owl
- Nubian woodpecker
- Nyanza swift
- Oberlander’s ground-thrush
- Olivaceous flycatcher
- Olive ibis
- Olive long-tailed cuckoo
- Olive sunbird
- Olive woodpecker
- Olive-bellied sunbird
- Olive-green camaroptera
- Olive-tree warbler
- Orange ground-thrush
- Orange weaver
- Orange-cheeked waxbill
- Orange-tufted sunbird
- Orange-winged pytilia
- Oriole cuckoo-shrike
- Oriole finch
- Oriole warbler
- Osprey
- Ovambo sparrow-hawk
- Pacific golden plover
- Pale flycatcher
- Pale-billed firefinch
- Pale-billed hornbill
- Pale-breasted illadopsis
- Pale-crown cisticola
- Pale-fronted nigrita
- Pale-olive greenbul
- Palestine sunbird
- Pallid harrier
- Pallid honeyguide
- Palm-nut vulture
- Papyrus canary
- Papyrus gonolek
- Papyrus yellow-warbler
- Parasitic jaeger
- Parasitic weaver
- Pearl-breasted swallow
- Pearl-spotted owlet
- Pectoral-patch cisticola
- Pel’s fishing owl
- Pennant-winged nightjar
- Peregrine falcon
- Peters’s twin-spot
- Petit’s cuckoo-shrike
- Piapiac
- Pied avocet
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pink-backed pelican
- Pink-footed puffback
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Piping cisticola
- Piping hornbill
- Plain greenbul
- Plain martin
- Plain nightjar
- Plain-backed pipit
- Plumed guineafowl
- Preuss’s swallow
- Preuss’s weaver
- Prigogin’s greenbul
- Prigogine’s sunbird
- Purple heron
- Purple indigobird
- Purple starling
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Purple-breasted sunbird
- Purple-headed starling
- Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
- Puvel’s illadopsis
- Pygmy falcon
- Pygmy sunbird
- Quail-finch
- Racket-tailed roller
- Rameron pigeon
- Rattling cisticola
- Red-backed mouse-bird
- Red-backed scrub-robin
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-bellied malimbe
- Red-billed duck
- Red-billed dwarf hornbill
- Red-billed firefinch
- Red-billed helmet-shrike
- Red-billed ox-pecker
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-capped crombec
- Red-capped lark
- Red-capped robin-chat
- Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Red-chested flufftail
- Red-chested goshawk
- Red-chested owlet
- Red-chested sunbird
- Red-chested swallow
- Red-collared mountain babbler
- Red-collared widowbird
- Red-crowned malimbe
- Red-eyed dove
- Red-eyed puffback
- Red-faced cisticola
- Red-faced crimson-wing
- Red-faced mouse-bird
- Red-faced pytilia
- Red-faced woodland-warbler
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-fronted parrot
- Red-headed bluebill
- Red-headed lovebird
- Red-headed malimbe
- Red-headed quelea
- Red-headed weaver
- Red-knobbed coot
- Red-necked buzzard
- Red-necked falcon
- Red-necked phalarope
- Red-necked spurfowl
- Red-rumped swallow
- Red-rumped tinkerbird
- Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
- Red-tailed ant-thrush
- Red-tailed bristle-bill
- Red-tailed greenbul
- Red-tailed shrike
- Red-thighed sparrow-hawk
- Red-throated alethe
- Red-throated bee-eater
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-throated swallow
- Red-tufted sunbird
- Red-winged francolin
- Red-winged gray-warbler
- Red-winged prinia
- Red-winged pytilia
- Red-winged starling
- Regal sunbird
- Reichard’s seedeater
- Reichenbach’s sunbird
- Retz’s helmet-shrike
- Richard’s pipit
- Ring-necked dove
- River warbler
- Rock kestrel
- Rock martin
- Rock pigeon
- Rock pratincole
- Rockefeller’s sunbird
- Rock-loving cisticola
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Ross’s turaco
- Rosy bee-eater
- Rosy-throated longclaw
- Royal tern
- Ruaha chat
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous flycatcher-thrush
- Rufous-bellied helmet-shrike
- Rufous-bellied heron
- Rufous-bellied tit
- Rufous-breasted sparrow-hawk
- Rufous-cheeked nightjar
- Rufous-chested swallow
- Rufous-crowned eremomela
- Rufous-crowned roller
- Rufous-napped lark
- Rufous-necked wryneck
- Rufous-rumped lark
- Rufous-sided broadbill
- Rufous-tailed palm-thrush
- Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
- Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
- Rufous-vented paradise-flycatcher
- Ruppell’s griffon
- Ruppell’s starling
- Rwenzori apalis
- Rwenzori batis
- Rwenzori hill babbler
- Rwenzori nightjar
- Rwenzori turaco
- Sabine’s puffback
- Sabine’s spine-tail
- Sabota lark
- Saddle-billed stork
- Salvadori’s eremomela
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sandy scop’s-owl
- Sassi’s greenbul
- Scaly francolin
- Scaly-breasted illadopsis
- Scaly-throated honeyguide
- Scarce swift
- Scarlet-chested sunbird
- Schalow’s turaco
- Schouteden’s swift
- Secretary bird
- Sedge warbler
- Semi-collared flycatcher
- Senegal coucal
- Senegal lapwing
- Senegal thick-knee
- Sharpe’s drongo
- Sharpe’s starling
- Sharp-tailed starling
- Shelley’s crimson-wing
- Shelley’s eagle-owl
- Shelley’s francolin
- Shelley’s greenbul
- Shelley’s sunbird
- Shikra
- Shinning blue kingfisher
- Shinning drongo
- Shoebill stork
- Short-tailed pipit
- Siffling cisticola
- Simple greenbul
- Singing cisticola
- Sjostedt’s greenbul
- Sjostedt’s owlet
- Sladen’s barbet
- Slaty egret
- Slender-billed greenbul
- Slender-billed starling
- Slender-billed weaver
- Slender-tailed cisticola
- Slender-tailed nightjar
- Small buttonquail
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Sooty chat
- Sooty flycatcher
- South African swallow
- Southern black flycatcher
- Southern black-tit
- Southern boubou
- Southern carmine bee-eater
- Southern cordon-bleu
- Southern ground hornbill
- Southern hyliota
- Southern masked weaver
- Southern pochard
- Southern red bishop
- Southern white-faced owl
- Souza’s shrike
- Speckle-breasted woodpecker
- Speckled mouse bird
- Speckled pigeon
- Speckled tinkerbird
- Spectacled weaver
- Spike-heeled lark
- Splendid starling
- Splendid sunbird
- Spot-breasted ibis
- Spot-flanked barbet
- Spotted crake
- Spotted eagle-owl
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted greenbul
- Spotted ground-thrush
- Spotted honeyguide
- Spotted morning thrush
- Spotted redshank
- Spotted thick-knee
- Spur-winged goose
- Spur-winged plover
- Squacco heron
- Square-tailed nightjar
- Square-tailed sawwing
- Standard-winged nightjar
- Steppe eagle
- Stone partridge
- Stout cisticola
- Strange weaver
- Streaky seedeater
- Streaky-breasted flufftail
- Streaky-headed seedeater
- Striated heron
- Stripe-breasted tit
- Striped crake
- Striped flufftail
- Striped kingfisher
- Striped pipit
- Stuhlmann’s starling
- Stuhlmann’s sunbird
- Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
- Sun lark
- Superb sunbird
- Swallow-tailed bee-eater
- Swamp flycatcher
- Swamp greenbul
- Swamp nightjar
- Tabora cisticola
- Tambourine dove
- Tanganyika masked weaver
- Tawny eagle
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Temmnick’s courser
- Temmnick’s stint
- Terek sandpiper
- Terrestrial brownbul
- Tessmann’s flycatcher
- Thick-billed cuckoo
- Thick-billed honeyguide
- Thick-billed seedeater
- Three banded-plover
- Thrush babbler
- Thrush nightingale
- Tinkling cisticola
- Tiny sunbird
- Tit-hylia
- Toro-olive greenbul
- Tree pipit
- Trilling cisticola
- Tropical boubou
- Trumpeter hornbill
- Tufted duck
- Tullberg’s woodpecker
- Tumer’s eremomela
- Uganda woodland-warbler
- Variable indigobird
- Variable sunbird
- 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-backed hyliota
- Violet-backed starling
- Violet-tailed sunbird
- Vitelline masked-weaver
- Wahlberg’s eagle
- Wahlberg’s honeyguide
- Waller’s starling
- Water thick-knee
- Wattled crane
- Wattled lapwing
- Wattled starling
- West African seedeater
- Western black-headed batis
- Western black-headed oriole
- Western bluebill
- Western citril
- Western miombo sunbird
- Western nicator
- Western plantain eater
- Western reef heron
- Western tinkerbird
- Western violet-backed sunbird
- Western yellow wagtail
- Weyns’s weaver
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- Whistling cisticola
- White helmet-shrike
- White stork
- White wagtail
- White-backed duck
- White-backed night-heron
- White-backed vulture
- White-bearded greenbul
- White-bellied bustard
- White-bellied crested flycatcher
- White-bellied kingfisher
- White-bellied robin-chat
- White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
- White-breasted nigrita
- White-breasted sunbird
- White-browed coucal
- White-browed crombec
- White-browed forest flycatcher
- White-browed robin-chat
- White-chinned prinia
- White-collared olive-back
- White-collared starling
- White-crested bittern
- White-crested hornbill
- White-crested turaco
- White-eyed slaty flycatcher
- White-faced whistling duck
- White-fronted bee-eater
- White-fronted black-chat
- White-fronted plover
- White-headed barbet
- White-headed lapwing
- White-headed robin-chat
- White-headed sawwing
- White-headed vulture
- White-headed wood hoopoe
- White-napped pigeon
- White-necked raven
- White-rumped seedeater
- White-rumped swift
- White-shouldered black-tit
- White-spotted flufftail
- White-spotted wattle-eye
- White-starred robin
- White-tailed ant-thrush
- White-tailed blue flycatcher
- White-tailed crested flycatcher
- White-tailed lark
- White-thighed hornbill
- White-throated bee-eater
- White-throated blue swallow
- White-throated francolin
- White-throated greenbul
- White-throated swallow
- White-winged black-tit
- White-winged scrub-warbler
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widowbird
- Whyte’s barbet
- Willcock’s honeyguide
- Willow warbler
- Wilson’s indigobird
- Wilson’s storm petrel
- Winding cisticola
- Wing-snapping cisticola
- Wire-tailed swallow
- Wood house’s ant-pecker
- Wood sandpiper
- Wood warbler
- Woodchat shrike
- Woodland kingfisher
- Woodland pipit
- Woolly-necked stork
- Xavier’s greenbul
- Yellow bishop
- Yellow longbill
- Yellow penduline tit
- Yellow-bearded greenbul
- Yellow-bellied eremomela
- Yellow-bellied greenbul
- Yellow-bellied hyliota
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
- Yellow-bellied waxbill
- Yellow-billed duck
- Yellow-billed ox-pecker
- Yellow-billed shrike
- Yellow-billed stork
- Yellow-billed turaco
- Yellow-breasted apalis
- Yellow-breasted barbet
- Yellow-browed camaroptera
- Yellow-capped weaver
- Yellow-crested helmet-shrike
- Yellow-crowned bishop
- Yellow-crowned canary
- Yellow-eyed black-flycatcher
- Yellow-footed flycatcher
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
- Yellow-legged weaver
- Yellow-mantled weaver
- Yellow-mantled widowbird
- Yellow-necked greenbul
- Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
- Yellow-spotted barbet
- Yellow-streaked greenbul
- Yellow-throated bush-sparrow
- Yellow-throated cuckoo
- Yellow-throated greenbul
- Yellow-throated longclaw
- Yellow-throated nicator
- Yellow-throated tinkerbird
- Yellow-whiskered bulbul
- Zebra waxbill
- Zenker’s honeyguide
- Zitting cisticola
Best time for birding in DR Congo
The best time to travel to DRC is during the long dry season from May to September, with July markedly the driest month, followed by June. The temperature also drops ever so slightly during these months. There is a shorter dry period in January and February.
