List of birds of Sudan

The impressive Jebel Aulia Dam provides a lake on the White Nile where locals enjoy sailing, fishing, swimming, and boat life. The shores of the lake are a popular picnic and relaxation point for Khartoum residents and the ideal place to enjoy some authentic Sudanese delicacies. The lake is a regular hot spot for bird watching with a number of species.

• Abdim’s stork
• Abyssinian ground hornbill
• Abyssinian nightjar
• Abyssinian roller
• Abyssinian white-eye
• African black duck
• African collard dove
• African crake
• African cuckoo
• African darter
• African finfoot
• African firefinch
• African fish eagle
• African fish-eagle
• African golden oriole
• African gray hornbill
• African gray woodpecker
• African harrier-hawk
• African hawk-eagle
• African hobby
• African jacana
• African openbill
• African palm-swift
• African paradise flycatcher
• African pied hornbill
• African pied wagtail
• African pipit
• African pygmy goose
• African pygmy kingfisher
• African reed warbler
• African scops owl
• African silver-bill
• African skimmer
• African snipe
• African spoonbill
• African stonechat
• African swamphen
• African thrush
• African wood owl
• African yellow white-eye
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine swift
• Anteater chat
• Arabian bustard
• Arabian warbler
• Arctic tern
• Asian desert warbler
• Augur buzzard
• Ayres’s hawk eagle
• Baillon’s crake
• Baka indigobird
• Banded snake-eagle
• Bank swallow
• Barbary falcon
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Barred warbler
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Bar-tailed lark
• Basra reed warbler
• Bateleur
• Bearded vulture
• Bearded woodpecker
• Beaudouin’s snake eagle
• Beautiful sunbird
• Bimaculated lark
• Black coucal
• Black crake
• Black cuckoo
• Black heron
• Black kite
• Black redstart
• Black scimitar-bill
• Black scrub robin
• Black stork
• Black-bellied bustard
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-billed barbet
• Black-billed wood hoopoe
• Black-billed wood-dove
• Black-breasted barbet
• 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 quail-finch
• Black-headed gonolek
• Black-headed gull
• Black-headed heron
• Black-headed lapwing
• Black-rumped waxbill
• Blackstart
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged bishop
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged lapwing
• Black-winged pratincole
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue rock thrush
• Blue-breasted bee-eater
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-headed coucal
• Blue-napped mouse-bird
• Bluethroat
• Booted eagle
• Bridled tern
• Broad-billed roller
• Broad-billed sandpiper
• Broad-ringed white-eye
• Bronze-tailed starling
• Bronze-winged courser
• Brown babbler
• Brown booby
• Brown noddy
• Brown shrike
• Brown snake-eagle
• Brown-backed woodpecker

• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian nuthatch
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian penduline tit
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scop’s owl
• Eurasian siskin
• Eurasian skylark
• Eurasian sparrow-hawk
• Eurasian spoonbill
• Eurasian thick-knee
• Eurasian tree sparrow
• Eurasian wigeon
• Eurasian woodcock
• Eurasian wren
• Eurasian wryneck
• European bee-eater
• European golden-plover
• European goldfinch
• European green finch
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European robin
• European roller
• European serin
• European shag
• European starling
• European stonechat
• European storm petrel
• European turtle dove
• Eye-browed thrush
• Ferruginous duck
• Fieldfare
• Franklin’s gull
• Fulvous chatterer
• Fulvous whistling duck
• Gadwall
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Glaucous gull
• Glaucous-winged gull
• Glossy ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden eagle
• Golden nightjar
• Gray heron
• Gray wagtail
• Gray-hooded gull
• Graylag goose
• Great bittern
• Great black-backed gull
• Great bustard
• Great cormorant
• Great crested grebe
• Great egret
• Great gray shrike
• Great knot
• Great reed warbler
• Great shearwater
• Great skua
• Great snipe
• Great spotted cuckoo
• Great tit
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater painted-snipe
• Greater sand-plover
• Greater scaup
• Greater short-toed lark
• Greater spotted eagle
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Greater yellowlegs
• Great-spotted woodpecker
• Green sandpiper
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hawfinch
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Hen harrier
• Herring gull
• Hooded vulture
• Horned grebe
• Horned lark
• Houbara bustard
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Hume’s warbler
• Iberian chiffchaff
• Iberian gray shrike
• Iceland gull
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Isabelline wheatear
• Jack snipe
• Kelp gull
• Kentish plover
• Kitilitz’s plover
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Laughing gull
• Leach’s storm petrel
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser crested tern
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser scaup
• Lesser short-toed lark
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser yellowlegs
• Lesser-spotted eagle
• Levaillant’s woodpecker
• Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
• Little bittern
• Little bustard
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little grebe

• Little gull
• Little owl
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Little-ringed plover
• Long-billed dowitcher
• Long-eared owl
• Long-legged buzzard
• Long-tailed cormorant
• Long-tailed duck
• Long-tailed jaeger
• Long-tailed tit
• Maghreb lark
• Maghreb magpie
• Mallard
• Mamora’s warbler
• Mandarin duck
• Manx shearwater
• Marbled teal
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Marsh warbler
• Masked booby
• Masked shrike
• Meadow pipit
• Mediterranean gull
• Melodious warbler
• Merlin
• Mew gull
• Mistie thrush
• Moltoni’s warbler
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mourning wheatear
• Moussier’s redstart
• Moustached warbler
• Mute swan
• Namaqua dove
• North African ostrich
• Northern bald ibis
• Northern fulmar
• Northern gannet

Best time for Birding in Sudan

Sudan’s rainy season lasts for about three months (July to September). The dry regions are plagued by sand storms, known as a haboob, which can completely block out the sun. In the northern and western semi-desert areas, people rely on the scant rainfall for basic agriculture and many are nomadic, traveling with their herds of sheep and camels. Nearer the River Nile, there are well-irrigated farms growing cash crops.