List of birds of Seychelles
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List of birds of Seychelles
Seychelles offers the birding enthusiasts the opportunity of viewing a number of critically endangered species, 11 endemic species and 4 endemic sub-species such as the Seychelles Kestral (Falco araea), Seychelles Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrima), Seychelles Scops Owl (Otus insularis), Seychelles Swiftlet (Aerodramus elaphrus), Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvina), Seychelles Bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris), Magpie Robin (Copsychus sechellarum), Seychelles Brush Warbler (Acrocephalus modesta), Seychelles Fody (Foudia sechellarum, Seychelles Sunbird (Nectarinia dussumieri), Seychelles White Eye (Zosterops modesta).
These birds are present on the islands of Mahé, Praslin, La Digue, Cousin, Aride, Bird, and Denis Island and are all within convenient traveling distances from the main island of Mahé.
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- Abbot’s booby
- African palm-swift
- African swamphen
- Aldabra bush warbler
- Aldabra drongo
- Aldabra fody
- Allen’s gallinule
- Alpine swift
- Amur falcon
- Antarctic giant petrel
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Bimaculated lark
- Black kite
- Black-bellied plover
- Black-crowned night-heron
- Black-headed gull
- Black-napped tern
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-winged pratincole
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue-cheeked bee-eater
- Booted eagle
- Bridled tern
- Broad-billed roller
- Broad-billed sandpiper
- Brown booby
- Brown fish owl
- Brown noddy
- Buff-breasted sandpiper
- Cape petrel
- Caspian plover
- Caspian tern
- Cattle egret
- Cinnamon bittern
- Citrine wagtail
- Collared pratincole
- Common chiffchaff
- Common cuckoo
- Common greenshank
- Common house martin
- Common myna
- Common quail
- Common redshank
- Common redstart
- Common ringed plover
- Common rock thrush
- Common rose-finch
- Common sandpiper
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Common waxbill
- Comoro blue pigeon
- Corn crake
- Crab-plover
- Curlew sandpiper
- Eared grebe
- Eleonora’s falcon
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian curlew
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian hobby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian marsh harrier
- Eurasian moorhen
- Eurasian nightjar
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- Eurasian scop’s owl
- Eurasian thick-knee
- Eurasian wigeon
- European bee-eater
- European honey buzzard
- European roller
- European turtle dove
- Ferruginous pochard
- Flesh-footed shearwater
- Garganey
- Glossy ibis
- Gray falcon
- Gray heron
- Gray wagtail
- Gray-headed kingfisher
- Gray-headed lovebird
- Gray-tailed tattler
- Great bittern
- Great cormorant
- Great crested tern
- Great egret
- Great frigatebird
- Great knot
- Great snipe
- Great spotted cuckoo
- Greater flamingo
- Greater sand plover
- Greater short-toed lark
- Greater whitethroat
- Green sandpiper
- Gull-billed tern
- Heuglin’s gull
- House crow
- Icterine warbler
- Indian pond-heron
- Intermediate egret
- Isabelline wheatear
- Jounin’s petrel
- Kermadec petrel
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Lesser crested tern
- Lesser cuckoo
- Lesser frigatebird
- Lesser gray shrike
- Lesser kestrel
- Lesser moorhen
- Lesser noddy
- Lesser sand plover
- Little bittern
- Little crake
- Little curlew
- Little egret
- Little ringed plover
- Little stint
- Little swift
- Little tern
- Long-tailed cormorant
- Long-toed stint
- Madagascar bee-eater
- Madagascar bulbul
- Madagascar coucal
- Madagascar harrier
- Madagascar kestrel
- Madagascar nightjar
- Madagascar pond-heron
- Madagascar pratincole
- Madagascar white-eye
- Malagasy sacred ibis
- Malagasy turtle dove
- Mallard
- Marsh sandpiper
- Mascarene martin
- Masked booby
- Matsudaira’s storm petrel
- Mayotte white-eye
- Muscovy duck
- Northern pintail
- Northern shoveler
- Northern wheatear
- Oriental plover
- Oriental pratincole
- Ortolan bunting
- Osprey
- Pacific golden plover
- Pacific swift
- Pallid harrier
- Parasitic jaeger
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Peregrine falcon
- Pied crow
- Pied cuckoo
- Pied wheatear
- Pink-backed pelican
- Pintail snipe
- Purple heron
- Red fody
- Red-backed shrike
- Red-billed tropicbird
- Red-footed booby
- Red-footed falcon
- Red-necked phalarope
- Red-tailed tropicbird
- Red-throated pipit
- Red-whiskered bulbul
- Richard’s pipit
- Rock pigeon
- Roseate tern
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Rosy starling
- Ruddy shelduck
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Saker falcon
- Sand martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Saunders’s tern
- Sedge warbler
- Senegal lapwing
- Seychelles black parrot
- Seychelles blue pigeon
- Seychelles bulbul
- Seychelles flycatcher
- Seychelles fody
- Seychelles kestrel
- Seychelles magpie-robin
- Seychelles parakeet
- Seychelles scop’s owl
- Seychelles sunbird
- Seychelles swiftlet
- Seychelles warbler
- Seychelles white-eye
- Sharp-tailed sandpiper
- Sociable lapwing
- Sooty falcon
- Sooty tern
- Souimanga sunbird
- South polar skua
- Spotted crake
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted redshank
- Spur-winged lapwing
- Squacco heron
- Striated heron
- Striped crake
- Swinhoe’s storm petrel
- Temmnick’s stint
- Terek sandpiper
- Tree pipit
- Tropical shearwater
- Verreaux’s eagle-owl
- Wattled starling
- Wedge-tailed shearwater
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered tern
- White stork
- White tern
- White wagtail
- White-breasted waterhen
- White-cheeked tern
- White-faced storm petrel
- White-faced whistling duck
- White-tailed tropicbird
- White-throated needletail
- White-throated rail
- White-winged tern
- Willow warbler
- Wilson’s storm petrel
- Wood sandpiper
- Wood warbler
- Woodchat shrike
- Yellow bittern
- Yellow-fronted canary
- Zebra dove
Best time for birding in Seychelles
The best times to visit Seychelles are April, May, October, and November. These months represent the transition times between the hot and humid northwest trade winds (from November through March) and the cooler southeast trade winds that define April through October.
