List of Birds of Ethiopia
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List of Birds of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa – the hub of the country and the world’s third-highest capital at an altitude spanning 2400–3100m – is the starting place for the highland endemics. The Ghion Hotel’s huge garden can reveal wattled ibis, white-collared pigeon and Abyssinian slaty flycatcher, thick-billed raven, and brown-rumped seedeater. A day visit to the huge gorge of Debre Libanos gives a glimpse of outstanding scenery, extraordinary views of raptors, and an opportunity to find Erckel’s francolin, white-winged cliff chat, Ruppell’s black chat, and white-billed starling.
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- Abdim’s stork
- Abyssinian catbird
- Abyssinian crimson-wing
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- Abyssinian ground-thrush
- Abyssinian longclaw
- Abyssinian nightjar
- Abyssinian owl
- Abyssinian roller
- Abyssinian scimitar-bill
- Abyssinian slaty-flycatcher
- Abyssinian thrush
- Abyssinian wheatear
- Abyssinian white-eye
- Abyssinian woodpecker
- African bare-eyed thrush
- African black duck
- African black-headed oriole
- African citril
- African collared-dove
- African crake
- African cuckoo
- African cuckoo-hawk
- African darter
- African dusky flycatcher
- African emerald cuckoo
- African finfoot
- African firefinch
- African fish-eagle
- African golden oriole
- African goshawk
- African grass-owl
- African gray 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 openbill
- African palm-swift
- African paradise flycatcher
- African pied wagtail
- African pipit
- African pitta
- African pygmy kingfisher
- African pygmy-goose
- African rail
- African reed warbler
- African sacred ibis
- African scop’s owl
- African silverbill
- African skimmer
- African snipe
- African spoonbill
- African spotted creeper
- African stonechat
- African swamphen
- African swift
- African thrush
- African wood owl
- African yellow warbler
- African yellow white-eye
- Allen’s gallinule
- Alpine swift
- Amur falcon
- Ankober serin
- Arabian bustard
- Ashy cisticola
- Asian desert warbler
- Asian dowitcher
- Augur buzzard
- Ayres’s hawk eagle
- Baglafecht weaver
- Baillon’s crake
- Baka indigobird
- Bamboo warbler
- Banded barbet
- Banded martin
- Banded parisoma
- Banded snake eagle
- Bank swallow
- Bar-breasted firefinch
- Bare-faced go-away bird
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Barred warbler
- Bar-tailed lark
- Basra reed warbler
- Bat hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded vulture
- Bearded woodpecker
- Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
- Beautiful sunbird
- Bimaculated lark
- Black bishop
- Black coucal
- Black crake
- Black cuckoo
- Black cuckoo-shrike
- Black goshawk
- Black heron
- Black kite
- Black redstart
- Black sawwing
- Black scimitar-bill
- Black scrub-robin
- Black stork
- Black tern
- Black-and-white mannikin
- Black-backed cisticola
- Black-bellied bustard
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-bellied sunbird
- Black-billed barbet
- Black-billed wood hoopoe
- Black-billed wood-dove
- Black-capped social weaver
- Black-cheeked waxbill
- Black-chested snake-eagle
- Black-crowned crane
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-crowned sparrow-lark
- Black-crowned tchagra
- Black-eared wheatear
- Black-faced firefinch
- Black-faced sandgrouse
- Black-fronted francolin
- Black-headed gonolek
- Black-headed gull
- Black-headed heron
- Black-headed lapwing
- Black-headed weaver
- Black-necked weaver
- Black-rumped waxbill
- Black-shouldered nightjar
- Blacksmith lapwing
- Black-start
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-throated barbet
- Black-winged bishop
- Black-winged kite
- Black-winged lapwing
- Black-winged lovebird
- Black-winged pratincole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blanford’s lark
- Blue rock thrush
- Blue-breasted bee-eater
- Blue-breasted kingfisher
- Blue-capped cordon-bleu
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Blue-headed coucal
- Blue-napped mousebird
- Blue-spotted wood-dove
- Bluethroat
- Blue-winged goose
- Booted eagle
- Boran cisticola
- Bristle-crowned starling
- Broad-billed roller
- Broad-billed sandpiper
- Bronze mannikin
- Bronze sunbird
- Bronze-winged courser
- Brown babbler
- Brown parisoma
- Brown snake eagle
- Brown woodland-warbler
- Brown-backed woodpecker
- Brown-necked raven
- Brown-rumped bunting
- Brown-rumped seedeater
- Brown-tailed chat
- Brown-throated wattle-eye
- Brubru
- Bruce’s green pigeon
- Buff-bellied warbler
- Buff-chested bustard
- Buff-spotted flufftail
- Buffy pipit
- Bush pipit
- Cape crow
- Cape eagle-owl
- Cape teal
- Cardinal quelea
- Cardinal woodpecker
- Caspian gull
- Caspian plover
- Caspian tern
- Cassin’s flycatcher
- Cattle egret
- Chestnut sparrow
- Chestnut weaver
- Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
- Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
- Chestnut-bellied starling
- Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
- Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark
- Chestnut-napped francolin
- Cinerous bunting
- Cinnamon weaver
- Cinnamon-bracken warbler
- Cinnamon-breasted bunting
- Citrine wagtail
- Clapperton’s francolin
- Collared lark
- Collared pratincole
- Collared sunbird
- Common bulbul
- Common buzzard
- Common chiffchaff
- Common crane
- Common cuckoo
- Common grasshopper-warbler
- Common greenshank
- Common house-martin
- Common nightingale
- Common ostrich
- Common pochard
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common ringed plover
- Common sandpiper
- Common shelduck
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Compact weaver
- Copper sunbird
- Coqui francolin
- Corn crake
- Cream-colored courser
- Crested francolin
- Crested lark
- Cretzschmar’s babbler
- Cretzschmar’s bunting
- Crimson-rumped waxbill
- Croaking cisticola
- Crowned eagle
- Crowned hornbill
- Crowned lapwing
- Curlew sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- Cyprus wheatear
- D’amaud’s barbet
- Dark-chanting goshawk
- Delegorgue’s pigeon
- Demoiselle crane
- Denham’s bustard
- Desert cisticola
- Desert lark
- Desert wheatear
- Dideric cuckoo
- Donaldson smith sparrow-weaver
- Donaldson-smith’s nightjar
- Double-banded courser
- Double-toothed barbet
- Dunlin
- Dusky bubbler
- Dusky turtle-dove
- Dwarf bittern
- Eared grebe
- Eastern bonelli’s warbler
- Eastern olivaceous warbler
- Eastern orphean warbler
- Eastern paradise whydah
- Eastern plantain eater
- Eastern violet-backed sunbird
- Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
- Eastern-chanting goshawk
- Egyptian goose
- Egyptian nightjar
- Egyptian plover
- Egyptian vulture
- Eleonora’s falcon
- Emerald-spotted wood-dove
- Erckel’s francolin
- Ethiopian black-headed oriole
- Ethiopian boubou
- Ethiopian cisticola
- Ethiopian siskin
- Ethiopian swallow
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian crag-martin
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian griffon
- Eurasian hobby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian kestrel
- Eurasian marsh-harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian nightjar
- Eurasian reed warbler
- Eurasian scop’s-owl
- Eurasian sparrow-hawk
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian wigeon
- Eurasian wryneck
- European bee-eater
- European golden-plover
- European honey buzzard
- European pied flycatcher
- European roller
- European starling
- European turtle dove
- Exclamatory paradise whydah
- Familiar chat
- Fan-tailed grassbird
- Fan-tailed raven
- Fan-tailed widowbird
- Fawn-breasted waxbill
- Ferruginous duck
- Fiery-necked nightjar
- Fischer’s starling
- Flappet lark
- Fork-tailed drongo
- Four-banded sandgrouse
- Fox kestrel
- Foxy cisticola
- Foxy lark
- Franklin’s gull
- Freckled nightjar
- Friedmann’s lark
- Fulvous chatterer
- Gabar goshawk
- Gadwall
- Gambaga flycatcher
- Garden warbler
- Garganey
- Giant kingfisher
- Gillette’s lark
- Glossy ibis
- Glossy-backed drongo
- Golden eagle
- Golden palm-weaver
- Golden pipit
- Golden-breasted bunting
- Golden-breasted starling
- Goliath heron
- Gosling’s bunting
- Graceful prinia
- Grasshopper buzzard
- Gray cuckoo-shrike
- Gray heron
- Gray kestrel
- Gray wagtail
- Gray-backed fiscal
- Gray-crowned crane
- Gray-headed batis
- Gray-headed bush-shrike
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed silverbill
- Gray-headed social-weaver
- Gray-hooded gull
- Grayish eagle-owl
- Gray-rumped swallow
- Gray-tit flycatcher
- Gray-wren warbler
- Great bittern
- Great cormorant
- Great crested grebe
- Great egret
- Great gray shrike
- Great reed warbler
- Great snipe
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Great white pelican
- Greater blue-eared starling
- Greater flamingo
- Greater honeyguide
- Greater hoopoe-lark
- Greater kestrel
- Greater painted snipe
- Greater sand-plover
- Greater short-toed lark
- Greater spotted eagle
- Greater whitethroat
- Green bee-eater
- Green malkoha
- Green sandpiper
- Green wood hoopoe
- Green-backed camaroptera
- Green-backed eremomela
- Green-backed honeyguide
- Green-backed twin-spot
- Green-backed woodpecker
- Green-winged pytilia
- Green-winged teal
- Grosbeak weaver
- Ground scraper thrush
- Gull-billed tern
- Hadada ibis
- Half-collared kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin quail
- Hartlaub’s bustard
- Harwood’s francolin
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Hemprich’s hornbill
- Heuglin’s bustard
- Heuglin’s wheatear
- Hooded vulture
- Horus swift
- Hottentot teal
- House crow
- House sparrow
- Hueglin’s white-eye
- Hunter’s sunbird
- Icterine warbler
- Imperial eagle
- Intermediate egret
- Isabelline shrike
- Isabelline wheatear
- Jabandu indigobird
- Jack snipe
- Jackson’s hornbill
- Jameson’s firefinch
- Kentish plover
- Kitilitz’s plover
- Klaas’s cuckoo
- Knob-billed duck
- Kori bustard
- Lanner falcon
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Laughing dove
- Lemon dove
- Lesser black-headed gull
- Lesser blue-eared starling
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser gray shrike
- Lesser honeyguide
- Lesser jacana
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser masked weaver
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser sand-plover
- Lesser spotted eagle
- Lesser striped swallow
- Lesser swamp warbler
- Lesser whitethroat
- Lesser yellowlegs
- Levaillant’s cuckoo
- Levant sparrow-hawk
- Liben lark
- Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
- Lilac-breasted roller
- Little bee-eater
- Little bittern
- Little brown bustard
- Little crake
- Little egret
- Little grebe
- Little owl
- Little ringed plover
- Little rock-thrush
- Little sparrow-hawk
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little tern
- Little weaver
- Little-rush warbler
- Lizard buzzard
- Long-billed pipit
- Long-crested eagle
- Long-legged buzzard
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-tailed nightjar
- Long-toed lapwing
- Long-toed stint
- Maccoa duck
- Madagascar bee-eater
- Madagascar pratincole
- Magpie mannikin
- Magpie starling
- Malachite kingfisher
- Malachite sunbird
- Mallard
- Marabou stork
- Mariqua sunbird
- Marsh owl
- Marsh sandpiper
- Marsh tchagra
- Marsh warbler
- Martial eagle
- Masked lark
- Masked shrike
- Menetries’s warbler
- Meyer’s parrot
- Mocking cliff-chat
- Montagu’s harrier
- Moorland chat
- Moorland francolin
- Mosque swallow
- Mottled swift
- Mountain buzzard
- Mountain gray woodpecker
- Mountain wagtail
- Mourning collared-dove
- Mourning wheatear
- Mouse-colored penduline tit
- Moustached grass warbler
- Namaqua dove
- Narina trogon
- Nechisar nightjar
- Nile valley sunbird
- Northern black-flycatcher
- Northern bold ibis
- Northern brownbul
- Northern carmine bee-eater
- Northern crombec
- Northern fiscal
- Northern gray-headed sparrow
- Northern grosbeak-canary
- Northern masked weaver
- Northern pintail
- Northern puffback
- Northern red bishop
- Northern red-billed hornbill
- Northern shoveler
- Northern wheatear
- Northern white-faced owl
- Nubian nightjar
- Nubian woodpecker
- Nyanza swift
- Olive sunbird
- Olive-bellied sunbird
- Olive-tree warbler
- Orange river francolin
- Orange-winged pytilia
- Ortolan bunting
- Osprey
- Ovambo sparrow-hawk
- Pacific golden-plover
- Pale flycatcher
- Pale prinia
- Pale rock-finch
- Pale white-eye
- Pallas’s gull
- Pallid harrier
- Pallid swift
- Parasitic jaeger
- Parasitic weaver
- Parrot-billed sparrow
- Pearl-spotted owlet
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Pectoral-patch cisticola
- Pel’s fishing-owl
- Peregrine falcon
- Persian wheatear
- Pharaoh eagle-owl
- Piapiac
- Pied avocet
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied kingfisher
- Pied wheatear
- Pink-backed pelican
- Pink-breasted lark
- Pin-tailed whydah
- Plain martin
- Plain nightjar
- Plain-backed pipit
- Prince Ruspoli’s turaco
- Pringle’s puffback
- Purple grenadier
- Purple heron
- Purple-banded sunbird
- Pygmy batis
- Pygmy falcon
- Pygmy sunbird
- Quail plover
- Quail-finch
- Rameron pigeon
- Rattling cisticola
- Red phalarope
- Red sea swallow
- Red-and-yellow barbet
- Red-backed scrub-robin
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-bellied parrot
- Red-billed buffalo weaver
- Red-billed chough
- Red-billed duck
- Red-billed firefinch
- Red-billed ox-pecker
- Red-billed pytilia
- Red-billed quelea
- Red-breasted wheatear
- Red-capped robin-chat
- Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
- Red-chested cuckoo
- Red-chested flufftail
- Red-chested sunbird
- Red-chested swallow
- Red-collared widowbird
- Red-eyed dove
- Red-faced cisticola
- Red-faced crombec
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-fronted prinia
- Red-fronted tinkerbird
- Red-headed lovebird
- Red-headed quelea
- Red-headed weaver
- Red-knobbed coot
- Red-napped bush-shrike
- Red-necked buzzard
- Red-necked falcon
- Red-necked phalarope
- Red-pale cisticola
- Red-rumped swallow
- Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
- Red-tailed shrike
- Red-throated bee-eater
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-winged lark
- Red-winged prinia
- Red-winged starling
- Reichard’s seedeater
- Reichenow’s citril
- Ring-necked dove
- River warbler
- Rock martin
- Rock pigeon
- Rock pratincole
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Rosy starling
- Rosy-patched bush-shrike
- Rougel’s rail
- Ruddy shelduck
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous chatterer
- Rufous-breasted sparrow-hawk
- Rufous-capped lark
- Rufous-crowned roller
- Rufous-napped lark
- Rufous-necked wryneck
- Rufous-ramped lark
- Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
- Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
- Ruppell’s chat
- Ruppell’s griffon
- Ruppell’s robin-chat
- Ruppell’s starling
- Ruppell’s warbler
- Ruppell’s weaver
- Saddle-billed stork
- Sahel bush sparrow
- Sahel paradise-whydah
- Saker falcon
- Salvadori’s serin
- Salvadori’s weaver
- Sand partridge
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sardinian warbler
- Saunders’s tern
- Savi’s warbler
- Scaly babbler
- Scaly chatterer
- Scaly francolin
- Scaly-throated honeyguide
- Scarce swift
- Scarlet-chested sunbird
- Scissor-tailed kite
- Secretary bird
- Sedge warbler
- Semi-collared flycatcher
- Senegal coucal
- Senegal thick-knee
- Sharpe’s starling
- Shelley’s rufous sparrow
- Shelley’s starling
- Shikra
- Shinning sunbird
- Shoebill stork
- Short-billed crombec
- Short-eared owl
- Short-toed lark
- Short-toed snake-eagle
- Siberian stonechat
- Siffling cisticola
- Silverbird
- Silvery-cheeked hornbill
- Singing bush-lark
- Singing cisticola
- Slate-colored boubou
- Slender-billed gull
- Slender-billed starling
- Slender-tailed nightjar
- Small buttonquail
- Snowy-crowned robin-chat
- Sociable lapwing
- Somali bee-eater
- Somali bunting
- Somali courser
- Somali crombec
- Somali crow
- Somali fiscal
- Somali ostrich
- Somali short-toed lark
- Somali sparrow
- Somali starling
- Somali tit
- Somali wheatear
- Sombre greenbul
- Sombre nightjar
- Sombre rock-chat
- Song thrush
- Sooty falcon
- Sooty tern
- Southern citril
- Southern pochard
- Speckled mouse bird
- Speckled pigeon
- Speckle-fronted weaver
- Spectacled weaver
- Speke’s weaver
- Splendid starling
- Spot-breasted lapwing
- Spotted crake
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted morning thrush
- Spotted redshank
- Spotted sandgrouse
- Spotted thick-knee
- Spur-winged goose
- Spur-winged lapwing
- Squacco heron
- Standard-winged nightjar
- Star-spotted nightjar
- Steel-blue whydah
- Steppe eagle
- Stone partridge
- Stout cisticola
- Straw-tailed whydah
- Streaky seedeater
- Stresemann’s bush-crow
- Striated heron
- Striolated bunting
- Striped kingfisher
- Stuhlmann’s starling
- Sub-alpine warbler
- Sudan golden sparrow
- Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
- Superb starling
- Swainson’s sparrow
- Swallow-tailed bee-eater
- Swamp nightjar
- Tacazze sunbird
- Taita falcon
- Taita fiscal
- Tambourine dove
- Tawny eagle
- Tawny pipit
- Tawny-flanked prinia
- Temmnick’s courser
- Temmnick’s stint
- Terek sandpiper
- Thekla’s lark
- Thick-billed raven
- Three-banded courser
- Three-banded plover
- Three-streaked tchagra
- Thrush nightingale
- Tiny cisticola
- Tree pipit
- Tsavo sunbird
- Tufted duck
- Upcher’s warbler
- Variable sunbird
- Verreaux’s eagle
- Verreaux’s eagle owl
- Vieillot’s barbet
- Village indigobird
- Village weaver
- Vinaceous dove
- Violet wood hoopoe
- Violet-backed starling
- Vitelline masked-weaver
- Von der Decken’s hornbill
- Vulturine guineafowl
- Wahlberg’s eagle
- Wahlberg’s honeyguide
- Water thick-knee
- Wattled crane
- Wattled lapwing
- Wattled starling
- Western black-headed batis
- Western reef heron
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- White stork
- White wagtail
- White-backed black-tit
- White-backed duck
- White-backed night-heron
- White-backed vulture
- White-bellied bustard
- White-bellied canary
- White-bellied go-away-bird
- White-billed buffalo-weaver
- White-billed starling
- White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
- White-browed coucal
- White-browed robin-chat
- White-browed sparrow-weaver
- White-cheeked turaco
- White-collared pigeon
- White-crowned robin-chat
- White-crowned starling
- White-crowned wheatear
- White-faced whistling duck
- White-fronted black-chat
- White-fronted plover
- White-headed buffalo-weaver
- White-headed mousebird
- White-headed vulture
- White-rumped babbler
- White-rumped seedeater
- White-rumped shrike
- White-rumped swift
- White-shouldered black-tit
- White-tailed lapwing
- White-tailed lark
- White-tailed swallow
- White-throated bee-eater
- White-throated robin
- White-winged black tit
- White-winged cliff-chat
- White-winged collared-dove
- White-winged flufftail
- White-winged tern
- White-winged widowbird
- Willow warbler
- Wilson’s indigobird
- Winding cisticola
- Wire-tailed swallow
- Wood sandpiper
- Wood warbler
- Woodchat shrike
- Woodland kingfisher
- Woolly-necked stork
- Yellow bishop
- Yellow-bellied eremomela
- Yellow-bellied hyliota
- Yellow-bellied waxbill
- Yellow-billed duck
- Yellow-billed ox-pecker
- Yellow-billed stork
- Yellow-breasted apalis
- Yellow-breasted barbet
- Yellow-crowned bishop
- Yellow-crowned canary
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Yellow-fronted parrot
- Yellow-mantled widowbird
- Yellow-necked francolin
- Yellow-rumped serin
- Yellow-spotted bush-sparrow
- Yellow-throated greenbul
- Yellow-throated sandgrouse
- Yellow-throated serin
- Yellow-vented eremomela
- Zebra waxbill
- Zitting cisticola
Best time for birding in Ethiopia
The dry season – October to March – is the most practical time to go and also the time when many wintering birds from Europe and Asia are present.
