List of Birds of Mozambique

The most popular areas for birding are, in central Mozambique, the highland forests of Mount Gorongosa, and the woodlands and lowland forests between Beira and the Zambezi. Further south, excellent birding is to be had in the woodlands around Panda and along the coast around Inhambane, Vilanculos and Bazaruto Island.

• Abdim’s stork
• Abyssinian thrush
• African barred owlet
• African black duck
• African black-headed oriole
• African broadbill
• African bush warbler
• African crake
• African crested flycatcher
• African cuckoo
• African cuckoo-hawk
• African darter
• African dusky flycatcher
• African emerald cuckoo
• African finfoot
• African firefinch
• African fish eagle
• African golden oriole
• African golden weaver
• African goshawk
• African grass owl
• African gray hornbill
• African green pigeon
• African harrier-hawk
• African hawk-eagle
• African hill babbler
• African hobby
• African jacana
• African marsh-harrier
• African mourning dove
• African openbill
• African palm-swift
• African paradise flycatcher
• African penduline-tit
• African pied wagtail
• African pipit
• African pitta
• African pygmy goose
• African pygmy kingfisher
• African quail finch
• African rail
• African reed warbler
• African scop’s owl
• African scrub warbler
• African skimmer
• African snipe
• African spoonbill
• African spotted creeper
• African stonechat
• African swamphen
• African swift
• African wood-owl
• African yellow warbler
• African yellow-white-eye
• Alln’s gallinule
• Amethyst’s sunbird
• Amur francolin
• Anchieta’s sunbird
• Antarctic giant petrel
• Antarctic prion
• Antarctic tern
• Arctic tern
• Arrow-marked babbler
• Ashy flycatcher
• Atlantic petrel
• Augur buzzard
• Ayres’s eagle
• Baillon’s crake
• Banded martin
• Banded snake-eagle
• Bank swallow
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Barred long-tailed cuckoo
• Bar-tailed trogon
• Bar-throated apalis
• Basra reed warbler

• Bat hawk
• Bateleur
• Bat-like spinetail
• Bearded scrub robin
• Bearded vulture
• Bearded woodpecker
• Bennett’s woodpecker
• Bertram’s weaver
• Black coucal
• Black crake
• Black cuckoo
• Black cuckoo shrike
• Black goshawk
• Black heron
• Black kite
• Black sawwing
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black-and whit-shrike flycatcher
• Black-and-white mannikin
• Black-backed puffback
• Black-bellied bustard
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-bellied starling
• Black-browed albatross
• Black-browed greenbul
• Black-chested snake-eagle
• Black-collared barbet
• Black-crowned night heron
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared seedeater
• Black-fronted bush shrike
• Black-headed apalis
• Black-headed gull
• Black-headed heron
• Black-napped tern
• Black-rumped buttonquail
• Blacksmith lapwing
• Black-tailed waxbill
• Black-throated wattle-eye
• Black-winged bishop
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged pratincole
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue quail
• Blue-breasted cordonbleu
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-spotted wood-dove
• Boehm’s bee-eater
• Bokmakierie
• Booted eagle
• Boulder chat
• Bridled tern
• Brimstone canary
• Broad-billed prion
• Broad-billed roller
• Broad-billed sandpiper
• Broad-tailed paradise whydah
• Bronze mannikin
• Bronze sunbird
• Bronze-winged courser
• Brown booby
• Brown noddy
• Brown scrub-robin
• Brown skua
• Brown snake-eagle
• Brown-breasted barbet
• Brown-crowned tchagra
• Brown-headed parrot
• Brown-hooded kingfisher
• Brown-necked parrot
• Brubru
• Buff-spotted flufftail
• Buffy pipit
• Bulwer’s petrel
• Burchell’s coucal
• Burchell’s glossy starling

• Burnt-neck eremomela
• Bush pipit
• Cabanis’s bunting
• Cabanis’s greenbul
• Cameroon scrub warbler
• Cape batis
• Cape bunting
• Cape canary
• Cape cormorant
• Cape crombec
• Cape crow
• Cape eagle owl
• Cape gannet
• Cape glossy starling
• Cape grass bird
• Cape griffon
• Cape petrel
• Cape robin-chat
• Cape rock thrush
• Cape shoveler
• Cape teal
• Cape wagtail
• Cape white-eye
• Capped wheatear
• Cardinal woodpecker
• Caspian plover
• Caspian tern
• Cattle egret
• Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
• Chestnut-banded plover
• Chestnut-fronted helmet shrike
• Chestnut-vented warbler
• Chinspot batis
• Chirinda apalis
• Cholo alethe
• Cinnamon-bracken warbler
• Cinnamon-breasted bunting
• Cloud cisticola
• Collared palm thrush
• Collared pratincole
• Collared sunbird
• Common bulbul
• Common buzzard
• Common cuckoo
• Common greenshank
• Common house-martin
• Common ostrich
• Common quail
• Common redshank
• Common ringed plover
• Common sandpiper
• Common scimitarbill
• Common snipe
• Common square-tailed drongo
• Common swift
• Common tern
• Common waxbill
• Copper sunbird
• Coqui francolin
• Corn crake
• Crab-plover
• Crested barbet
• Crested francolin
• Crested guineafowl
• Croaking cisticola
• Crowned eagle
• Crowned hornbill
• Crowned lapwing
• Curlew sandpiper
• Cut-throat
• Dapple-throat
• Dark-chanting goshawk
• Delegorgue’s pigeon
• Denham’s bustard
• Desert cisticola
• Dickinson’s kestrel
• Dideric cuckoo

• Double-banded sandgrouse
• Dunlin
• Dusky lark
• Dusky-turtle dove
• Dwarf bittern
• Eared grebe
• East coast akalat
• Eastern miombo sunbird
• Eastern nicator
• Eastern olive-sunbird
• Eastern-paradise whydah
• Egyptian goose
• Egyptian vulture
• Eleonora’s francolin
• Emerald-spotted wood-dove
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian marsh-harrier
• Eurasian moorhen
• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian oyster catcher
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian river warbler
• European bee-eater
• European honey-buzzard
• European roller
• European storm petrel
• Fairy flycatcher
• Familiar chat
• Fan-tailed grass bird
• Fan-tailed widowbird
• Fascinated snake-eagle
• Fawn-colored lark
• Fiery-necked nightjar
• Fiscal flycatcher
• Fischer’s greenbul
• Flappet lark
• Forbe’s-watson’s swift
• Forest double-collared sunbird
• Forest weaver
• Fork-tailed drongo
• Four-colored bush shrike
• Franklin’s gull
• Freckled nightjar
• Fulvous whistling duck
• Gabar goshawk
• Garden warbler
• Giant kingfisher
• Glossy ibis
• Golden-breasted bunting
• Golden-tailed woodpecker
• Goliath heron
• Grasshopper buzzard
• Gray cuckoo shrike
• Gray heron
• Gray petrel
• Gray-crowned crane
• Gray-go-away bird
• Gray-headed bush shrike
• Gray-headed gull
• Gray-headed kingfisher
• Gray-olive greenbul
• Gray-rumped swallow
• Gray-tit flycatcher
• Great bittern
• Great cormorant
• Great crested grebe
• Great crested tern
• Great egret
• Great frigate bird
• Great reed warbler
• Great shearwater
• Great snipe
• Great white pelican
• Greater blue-eared glossy starling

• Greater double-collared sunbird
• Greater flamingo
• Greater honeyguide
• Greater kestrel
• Greater painted-snipe
• Greater sand-plover
• Greater striped swallow
• Great-spotted cuckoo
• Great-winged petrel
• Green barbet
• Green malkoha
• Green sandpiper
• Green tinkerbird
• Green wood hoopoe
• Green-backed camaroptera
• Green-backed honeyguide
• Green-backed twinspot
• Green-backed woodpecker
• Greencap eremomela
• Green-headed oriole
• Green-winged pytilia
• Grosbeak weaver
• Ground scraper thrush
• Gull-billed tern
• Gurney’s sugarbird
• Hadada ibis
• Half-collared kingfisher
• Hall’s giant petrel
• Hamerkop
• Harlequin quail
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Hildebrandt’s francolin
• Holub’s golden weaver
• Hooded vulture
• Horus swift
• Hottentot teal
• House crow
• House sparrow
• Icterine warbler
• Indian yellow-nosed albatross
• Intermediate egret
• Jackal buzzard
• Jackass penguin
• Jameson’s firefinch
• Jounin’s petrel
• Kelp gull
• Kittilitz’s plover
• Klaas’s cuckoo
• Knob-billed duck
• Knysna turaco
• Kori bustard
• Kretchmer’s longbill
• Kurrichane thrush
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Leach’s storm petrel
• Lemon dove
• Lemon-breasted seedeater
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser blue-eared glossy starling
• Lesser crested tern
• Lesser cuckoo
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser frigate bird
• Lesser gray shrike
• Lesser honeyguide
• Lesser jacana
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser masked-weaver
• Lesser moorhen
• Lesser noddy
• Lesser sand plover
• Lesser seed cracker
• Lesser spotted eagle
• Lesser striped swallow
• Lesser swamp warbler

• Levaillant’s cuckoo
• Light-mantled albatross
• Lilac-breasted roller
• Lillian’s lovebird
• Little bee-eater
• Little bittern
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little grebe
• Little greenbul
• Little sparrow hawk
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Livingstone’s flycatcher
• Livingstone’s turaco
• Lizard buzzard
• Locust finch
• Long-billed forest warbler
• Long-billed pipit
• Long-crested eagle
• Long-tailed cormorant
• Long-toed lapwing
• Long-toed stint
• Lowland tiny greenbul
• Luapula cisticola
• Maccoa duck
• Madagascar bee-eater
• Madagascar cuckoo
• Madagascar pond-heron
• Madagascar pratincole
• Magpie mannikin
• Magpie shrike
• Malachite kingfisher
• Malachite sunbird
• Mangrove kingfisher
• Marabou stork
• Mariqua sunbird
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Marsh tchagra
• Marsh warbler
• Martial eagle
• Mascarene martin
• Meve’s glossy starling
• Meyer’s parrot
• Miombo rock thrush
• Miombo scrub robin
• Miombo tit
• Mocking cliff-chat
• Montagu’s harrier
• Montane blue swallow
• Mosque swallow
• Mottled spinetail
• Mottled swift
• Mountain wagtail
• Mouse-colored sunbird
• Moustached grass warbler
• Namaqua dove
• Namuli apalis
• Narina trogon
• Natal francolin
• Neergaad’s sunbird
• Northern brownbul
• Northern fiscal
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Olive bush shrike
• Olive thrush
• Olive woodpecker
• Olive-flanked robin-chat
• Olive-headed weaver
• Olive-tree warbler
• Orange ground thrush
• Orange-throated longclaw
• Orange-winged pytilia
• Osprey

• Ovambo sparrow hawk
• Pale batis
• Pale flycatcher
• Pale-billed hornbill
• Pale-crowned cisticola
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid honeyguide
• Palm nut vulture
• Parasitic jaeger
• Parasitic weaver
• Pearl-breasted swallow
• Pearl-spotted owl
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Pel’s fishing owl
• Pennant-winged nightjar
• Peregrine falcon
• Peters’s twinspot
• Pied avocet
• Pied barbet
• Pied crow
• Pied cuckoo
• Pied kingfisher
• Pink-backed pelican
• Pink-throated twinspot
• Pin-tailed whydah
• Piping cisticola
• Plain martin
• Plain-backed pipit
• Plain-backed sunbird
• Pomarine jaeger
• Purple heron
• Purple indigobird
• Purple-banded sunbird
• Purple-crested turaco
• Quail finch
• Racket-tailed roller
• Rameron pigeon
• Rattling cisticola
• Red bishop
• Red knot
• Red phalarope
• Red-backed scrub-robin
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-bellied quelea
• Red-billed buffalo-weaver
• Red-billed duck
• Red-billed firefinch
• Red-billed ox-pecker
• Red-capped crombec
• Red-capped forest-warbler
• Red-capped lark
• Red-capped robin-chat
• Red-cheeked cordonbleu
• Red-chested cuckoo
• Red-chested flufftail
• Red-collared widowbird
• Red-crested korhaan
• Red-eyed dove
• Red-faced cisticola
• Red-faced crimson-wing
• Red-faced crombec
• Red-faced mousebird
• Red-footed booby
• Red-fronted tinkerbird
• Red-headed weaver
• Red-knobbed coot
• Red-necked francolin
• Red-necked francolin
• Red-necked stint
• Red-tailed tropicbird
• Red-winged prinia
• Red-winged starling
• Reichard’s seedeater
• Reichenow’s woodpecker
• Retz’s helmet shrike
• Ring-necked dove
• Robert’s warbler

• Rock kestrel
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock pratincole
• Rock-loving cisticola
• Roseate tern
• Rosy-throated longclaw
• Royal tern
• Rudd’s apalis
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous chested swallow
• Rufous-bellied heron
• Rufous-bellied tit
• Rufous-breasted sparrow hawk
• Rufous-cheeked nightjar
• Rufous-crowned roller
• Rufous-naped lark
• Rufous-necked wryneck
• Rufous-winged cisticola
• Ruppell’s griffon
• Sabine’s gull
• Sabota lark
• Sacred ibis
• Saddle-billed stork
• Salvin’s albatross
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern
• Scaly-throated honeyguide
• Scarce swift
• Scarlet-chested sunbird
• Secretary bird
• Sedge warbler
• Senegal coucal
• Senegal lapwing
• Sentinel rock thrush
• Shaft-tailed whydah
• Sharp-tailed sandpiper
• Shelley’s francolin
• Shelley’s sunbird
• Shikra
• Short-tailed batis
• Short-tailed pipit
• Shy albatross
• Siffling cisticola
• Silvery-cheeked hornbill
• Singing cisticola
• Slaty egret
• Small buttonquail
• Soft-plumaged petrel
• Sombre greenbul
• Sooty albatross
• Sooty falcon
• Sooty gull
• Sooty shearwater
• Sooty tern
• South African ostrich
• South polar skua
• Southern black flycatcher
• Southern black-tit
• Southern boubou
• Southern brown-throated weaver
• Southern citril
• Southern fiscal
• Southern gray-headed sparrow
• Southern ground-hornbill
• Southern hyliota
• Southern masked weaver
• Southern pied babbler
• Southern pochard
• Southern red-billed hornbill
• Southern tchagra
• Southern white-faced owl
• Southern yellow-billed hornbill
• Southern-carmine bee-eater
• Souza’s shrike
• Spanish sparrow

• Speckled mousebird
• Spectacled weaver
• Spotted crake
• Spotted eagle-owl
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted ground thrush
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted thick-knee
• Spur-winged goose
• Spur-winged lapwing
• Squacco heron
• Square-tailed nightjar
• Steppe eagle
• Stierling’s woodpecker
• Stierling’s wren-warbler
• Streaky-breasted flufftail
• Streaky-headed seedeater
• Striated heron
• Stripe-cheeked bulbul
• Striped crake
• Striped flufftail
• Striped kingfisher
• Striped pipit
• Sulphur-breasted bush shrike
• Swaheli sparrow
• Swainson’s francolin
• Swallow-tailed bee-eater
• Swamp nightjar
• Swee waxbill
• Swynnerton’s robin
• Taita falcon
• Tambourine dove
• Tawny eagle
• Tawny prinia
• Temmnick’s courser
• Terek sandpiper
• Terrestrial brownbul
• Thick-billed cuckoo
• Three-banded courser
• Three-banded plover
• Thrush nightingale
• Tinkling cisticola
• Tree pipit
• Tristan albatross
• Tropical boubou
• Tropical shearwater
• Trumpeter hornbill
• Uluguru violet-backed sunbird
• Variable indigobird
• Variable sunbird
• Verreaux’s eagle
• Verreaux’s eagle-owl
• Village indigobird
• Village weaver
• Vincent’s bunting
• Violet-backed starling
• Violet-eared waxbill
• Wahlberg’s eagle
• Wahlberg’s honeyguide
• Wailing cisticola
• Wandering albatross
• Water thick-knee
• Wattled crane
• Wattled lapwing
• Wattled starling
• Wedge-tailed shearwater
• Western olive-sunbird
• Western reef-heron
• Western violet-backed sunbird
• Western-yellow wagtail
• Whimbrel
• Whiskered tern
• White helmet shrike
• White starred robin
• White stork
• White-backed duck
• White-backed night heron

• White-backed vulture
• White-bellied storm petrel
• White-breasted cuckoo shrike
• White-breasted sunbird
• White-browed coucal
• White-browed robin chat
• White-browed sparrow-weaver
• White-chested alethe
• White-chinned petrel
• White-crowned shrike
• White-eared barbet
• White-eyed gull
• White-faced storm petrel
• White-faced whistling duck
• White-fronted plover
• White-fronted-bee-eater
• White-headed black-chat
• White-headed lapwing
• White-headed vulture
• White-necked raven

• White-rumped swift
• White-tailed blue flycatcher
• White-tailed crested flycatcher
• White-tailed tropicbird
• White-throated robin-chat
• White-throated swallow
• White-winged apalis
• White-winged tern
• White-winged widowbird
• Whyte’s barbet
• Willow warbler
• Wilson’s storm petrel
• Wing-snapping cisticola
• Wire-tailed swallow
• Wood sandpiper
• Woodland kingfisher
• Woodland pipit
• Woodward’s batis
• Wooly-necked stork
• Yellow bishop

• Yellow-bellied greenbul
• Yellow-bellied hyliota
• Yellow-bellied waxbill
• Yellow-billed duck
• Yellow-billed eremomela
• Yellow-billed ox-pecker
• Yellow-billed stork
• Yellow-breasted apalis
• Yellow-crowned bishop
• Yellow-fronted canary
• Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
• Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
• Yellow-shouldered widowbird
• Yellow-streaked greenbul
• Yellow-throated longclaw
• Yellow-throated petronia
• Yellow-throated wood warbler
• Zanzibar bishop
• Zebra waxbill
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Mozambique

Mozambique may not be considered one of the world’s greatest birding destinations, but its diverse ecosystems are home to over 600 species of birds. In midsummer between November and February, many species can be seen, including rare species of Cuckoo and many migratory species.