List of Birds of Togo

List of Birds of Togo

Togo has a bird list of 625 species but there has been little ornithological activity in the last fifteen years. In the 1980s tourism was encouraged and excellent hotel facilities were available at Lomé, Fazao, and Kara. Political upheavals in the 1990s hindered these developments but the country is recovering.

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  • Abdim’s stork
  • Abyssinian ground hornbill
  • Abyssinian roller
  • Adamawa turtle dove
  • African black duck
  • African blue flycatcher
  • African broadbill
  • African crake
  • African cuckoo
  • African cuckoo-hawk
  • African darter
  • African emerald cuckoo
  • African finfoot
  • African firefinch
  • African fish eagle
  • African forest flycatcher
  • African golden oriole
  • African gray hornbill
  • African gray woodpecker
  • African green pigeon
  • African harrier-hawk
  • African hawk-eagle
  • African hobby
  • African jacana
  • African mourning dove
  • African openbill
  • African palm swift
  • African paradise flycatcher
  • African pied hornbill
  • African pied wagtail
  • African pitta
  • African pygmy goose
  • African pygmy kingfisher
  • African scop’s owl
  • African shrike flycatcher
  • African silver-bill
  • African skimmer
  • African spoonbill
  • African spotted creeper
  • African swamphen
  • African thrush
  • African wood owl
  • African yellow white-eye
  • Ahanta francolin
  • Akun eagle-owl
  • Allen’s gallinule
  • Alpine swift
  • American golden plover
  • Ansorge’s greenbul
  • Arctic tern
  • Ashy flycatcher
  • Ayres’s hawk eagle
  • Baillon’s crake
  • Baka indigobird
  • Banded martin
  • Banded snake-eagle
  • Bank swallow
  • Bar-breasted firefinch
  • Barn owl
  • Barn swallow
  • Bar-tailed godwit
  • Bat hawk
  • Bateleur
  • Baumann’s greenbul
  • Bearded barbet
  • Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
  • Beautiful sunbird
  • Black bee-eater
  • Black casqued hornbill
  • Black coucal
  • Black crake
  • Black cuckoo
  • Black dwarf hornbill
  • Black goshawk
  • Black heron
  • Black kite
  • Black noddy
  • Black scimitar-bill
  • Black stork
  • Black tern
  • Black-and white mannikin
  • Black-and-white casqued-hornbill
  • Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
  • Black-bellied bustard
  • Black-bellied plover
  • Black-bellied seed-cracker
  • Black-billed firefinch
  • Black-billed wood-dove
  • Blackcap babbler
  • Blackcap illadopsis
  • Black-capped apalis
  • Black-crowned crane
  • Black-crowned night-heron
  • Black-crowned tchagra
  • Black-faced firefinch
  • Black-faced quail-finch
  • Black-headed gull
  • Black-headed heron
  • Black-headed lapwing
  • Black-headed weaver
  • Black-necked cisticola
  • Black-necked weaver
  • Black-rumped buttonquail
  • Black-rumped waxbill
  • Black-shouldered nightjar
  • Black-tailed godwit
  • Black-throated coucal
  • Black-winged bishop
  • Black-winged kite
  • Black-winged oriole
  • Black-winged pratincole
  • Black-winged stilt
  • Blue cuckoo-shrike
  • Blue malkoha
  • Blue quail
  • Blue rock thrush
  • Blue throat
  • Blue-bellied roller
  • Blue-breasted kingfisher
  • Blue-cheeked bee-eater
  • Blue-headed coucal
  • Blue-headed crested-flycatcher
  • Blue-headed paradise-flycatcher
  • Blue-headed wood-dove
  • Blue-shouldered robin-chat
  • Blue-spotted wood-dove
  • Blue-throated brown sunbird
  • Blue-throated roller
  • Booted eagle
  • Bridled tern
  • Bristle-nosed barbet
  • Broad-billed roller
  • Bronze mannikin
  • Bronze-tailed glossy-starling
  • Bronze-winged courser
  • Brown babbler
  • Brown booby
  • Brown illadopsis
  • Brown noddy
  • Brown snake-eagle
  • Brown-backed woodpecker
  • Brown-cheeked hornbill
  • Brown-chested lapwing
  • Brown-crowned tchagra
  • Brown-necked parrot
  • Brown-rumped bunting
  • Brown-throated wattle-eye
  • Brubru
  • Bruce’s green pigeon
  • Buff-spotted woodpecker
  • Buff-throated sunbird
  • Bush petronia
  • Cabanis’s bunting
  • Cameroon indigobird
  • Cameroon mountain greenbul
  • Cape gannet
  • Capuchin babbler
  • Cardinal woodpecker
  • Carmelite sunbird
  • Caspian tern
  • Cassin’s flycatcher
  • Cassin’s hawk-eagle
  • Cassin’s honeyguide
  • Cassin’s spine-tail
  • Cattle egret
  • Chestnut capped flycatcher
  • Chestnut crowned sparrow-weaver
  • Chestnut wattle-eye
  • Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
  • Chestnut-bellied helmet-shrike
  • Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
  • Chestnut-bellied starling
  • Chestnut-breasted negro-finch
  • Chestnut-winged starling
  • Collared pratincole
  • Collared sunbird
  • Common bulbul
  • Common buzzard
  • Common cuckoo
  • Common gonolek
  • Common greenshank
  • Common house martin
  • Common nightingale
  • Common quail
  • Common redshank
  • Common redstart
  • Common ringed plover
  • Common rock thrush
  • Common sandpiper
  • Common snipe
  • Common swift
  • Common tern
  • Common waxbill
  • Compact weaver
  • Congo serpent-eagle
  • Copper sunbird
  • Copper-tailed starling
  • Coqui francolin
  • Crested guineafowl
  • Crested lark
  • Crested malimbe
  • Croaking cisticola
  • Crowned eagle
  • Curlew sandpiper
  • Cut-throat
  • Damara tern
  • Dark-chanting goshawk
  • Denham’s bustard
  • Dideric cuckoo
  • Double-spurred francolin
  • Double-toothed barbet
  • Dunlin
  • Dusky flycatcher
  • Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
  • Dwarf bittern
  • Dybwosky’s twin-spot
  • Eastern olivaceous warbler
  • Eastern olive-sunbird
  • Egyptian goose
  • Egyptian nightjar
  • Egyptian plover
  • Ethiopian swallow
  • Eurasian blackcap
  • Eurasian curlew
  • Eurasian golden oriole
  • Eurasian griffon
  • Eurasian hobby
  • Eurasian hoopoe
  • Eurasian kestrel
  • Eurasian marsh-harrier
  • Eurasian moorhen
  • Eurasian oystercatcher
  • Eurasian reed warbler
  • Eurasian scop’s owl
  • Eurasian turtle dove
  • Eurasian wryneck
  • European bee-eater
  • European honey buzzard
  • European pied flycatcher
  • European storm petrel
  • Familiar chat
  • Fanti drongo
  • Fanti sawwing
  • Ferruginous pochard
  • Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
  • Fiery-necked nightjar
  • Fine-spotted woodpecker
  • Finsch’s flycatcher-thrush
  • Fire-bellied woodpecker
  • Flappet lark
  • Forbe’s plover
  • Forest robin
  • Four-banded sandgrouse
  • Fox kestrel
  • Freckled nightjar
  • Fulvous whistling duck
  • Gabar goshawk
  • Gabon woodpecker
  • Gambaga flycatcher
  • Garden warbler
  • Garganey
  • Giant kingfisher
  • Glossy ibis
  • Glossy-backed drongo
  • Golden greenbul
  • Goliath heron
  • Gosling’s bunting
  • Grasshopper buzzard
  • Gray greenbul
  • Gray heron
  • Gray kestrel
  • Gray long-bill
  • Gray parrot
  • Gray pratincole
  • Gray wagtail
  • Gray’s malimbe
  • Gray-headed bristle-bill
  • Gray-headed bush-shrike
  • Gray-headed gull
  • Gray-headed kingfisher
  • Gray-headed negro-finch
  • Gray-headed olive-back
  • Gray-headed sparrow
  • Grayish eagle-owl
  • Gray-rumped swallow
  • Gray-tit flycatcher
  • Great blue turaco
  • Great egret
  • Great reed warbler
  • Great snipe
  • Great white pelican
  • Greater blue-eared glossy-starling
  • Greater honeyguide
  • Greater painted snipe
  • Greater swamp warbler
  • Greater whitethroat
  • Great-spotted cuckoo
  • Green crombec
  • Green hylia
  • Green sandpiper
  • Green wood hoopoe
  • Green-backed camaroptera
  • Green-backed twin-spot
  • Green-backed woodpecker
  • Green-headed sunbird
  • Green-winged pytilia
  • Grosbeak weaver
  • Guinea turaco
  • Gull-billed tern
  • Hadada ibis
  • Hairy-breasted barbet
  • Hamerkop
  • Hartlaub’s duck
  • Helmeted guineafowl
  • Heuglin’s masked-weaver
  • Heuglin’s wheatear
  • Honeyguide greenbul
  • Hooded vulture
  • Icterine greenbul
  • Icterine warbler
  • Imperial eagle
  • Intermediate egret
  • Jack snipe
  • Jambandu indigobird
  • Johanna’s sunbird
  • Kemp’s long-bill
  • Kentish plover
  • Kitilitz’s plover
  • Klaas’s cuckoo
  • Knob-billed duck
  • Lagden’s bush-shrike
  • Lanner falcon
  • Lappet-faced vulture
  • Large-billed puffback
  • Latham’s francolin
  • Laughing dove
  • Lavender waxbill
  • Leaf-love
  • Least honeyguide
  • Lemon-bellied crombec
  • Lesser black-backed gull
  • Lesser blue-eared glossy-starling
  • Lesser flamingo
  • Lesser honeyguide
  • Lesser kestrel
  • Lesser moorhen
  • Lesser striped swallow
  • Levaillant’s cuckoo
  • Little bee-eater
  • Little bittern
  • Little crake
  • Little egret
  • Little gray flycatcher
  • Little grebe
  • Little green sunbird
  • Little greenbul
  • Little ringed plover
  • Little stint
  • Little swift
  • Little tern
  • Little weaver
  • Lizard buzzard
  • Long-billed pipit
  • Long-crested eagle
  • Long-legged buzzard
  • Long-tailed cormorant
  • Long-tailed glossy-starling
  • Long-tailed hawk
  • Long-tailed jaeger
  • Long-tailed nightjar
  • Long-tailed paradise-whydah
  • Magpie mannikin
  • Malachite kingfisher
  • Many-colored bush-shrike
  • Marabou stork
  • Marsh sandpiper
  • Marsh tchagra
  • Martial eagle
  • Maxwell’s black weaver
  • Melodious warbler
  • Mocking cliff-chat
  • Montagu’s harrier
  • Mosque swallow
  • Mottled spine-tail
  • Mottled swift
  • Mouse-brown sunbird
  • Moustached grass warbler
  • Naked-faced barbet
  • Namaqua dove
  • Narina trogon
  • Narrow-tailed starling
  • Nkulengu rail
  • Northern black flycatcher
  • Northern carmine bee-eater
  • Northern crombec
  • Northern fiscal
  • Northern pintail
  • Northern puffback
  • Northern red-billed hornbill
  • Northern shoveler
  • Northern wheatear
  • Northern white-faced owl
  • Olive-bellied sunbird
  • Olive-green camaroptera
  • Orange bishop
  • Orange weaver
  • Orange-cheeked waxbill
  • Oriole warbler
  • Osprey
  • Ovambo sparrow-hawk
  • Pacific golden-plover
  • Pale flycatcher
  • Pale-breasted illadopsis
  • Pale-fronted negro-finch
  • Pale-winged indigobird
  • Pallid harrier
  • Pallid swift
  • Palm-nut vulture
  • Parasitic jaeger
  • Parasitic weaver
  • Pearl-spotted owlet
  • Pel’s fishing owl
  • Pennant-winged nightjar
  • Peregrine falcon
  • Piapiac
  • Pied avocet
  • Pied crow
  • Pied cuckoo
  • Pied kingfisher
  • Pied-winged swallow
  • Pink-backed pelican
  • Pin-tailed whydah
  • Piping hornbill
  • Plain greenbul
  • Plain martin
  • Plain nightjar
  • Plain-backed pipit
  • Pomarine jaeger
  • Preuss’s swallow
  • Preuss’s weaver
  • Purple glossy-starling
  • Purple heron
  • Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
  • Puvel’s illadopsis
  • Pygmy sunbird
  • Quail finch
  • Quail-plover
  • Red knot
  • Red phalarope
  • Red-billed firefinch
  • Red-billed quelea
  • Red-cheeked cordonbleu
  • Red-cheeked wattle-eye
  • Red-chested cuckoo
  • Red-chested flufftail
  • Red-chested goshawk
  • Red-chested swallow
  • Red-collared widowbird
  • Red-eyed dove
  • Red-faced cisticola
  • Red-faced pytilia
  • Red-footed falcon
  • Red-headed lovebird
  • Red-headed malimbe
  • Red-headed quelea
  • Red-headed weaver
  • Red-necked buzzard
  • Red-necked falcon
  • Red-pate cisticola
  • Red-rumped swallow
  • Red-rumped tinkerbird
  • Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
  • Red-tailed greenbul
  • Red-thighed sparrow-hawk
  • Red-throated bee-eater
  • Red-throated pipit
  • Red-throated swallow
  • Red-vented malimbe
  • Red-winged prinia
  • Red-winged pytilia
  • Reinchenbach’s sunbird
  • Rock martin
  • Rock pigeon
  • Rock pratincole
  • Rock-loving cisticola
  • Roseate tern
  • Rose-ringed parakeet
  • Rosy bee-eater
  • Royal tern
  • Ruddy turnstone
  • Ruff
  • Rufous cisticola
  • Rufous-chested swallow
  • Rufous-crowned eremomela
  • Rufous-crowned roller
  • Rufous-rumped lark
  • Rufous-sided broadbill
  • Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
  • Rufous-winged illadopsis
  • Ruppell’s griffon
  • Rusty lark
  • Sabine’s gull
  • Sabine’s spine-tail
  • Sacred ibis
  • Saddle-billed stork
  • Sanderling
  • Sandwich tern
  • Scarlet-chested sunbird
  • Scarlet-tufted sunbird
  • Scissor-tailed kite
  • Secretary bird
  • Sedge warbler
  • Senegal batis
  • Senegal coucal
  • Senegal eremomela
  • Senegal lapwing
  • Senegal parrot
  • Senegal thick-knee
  • Sharpe’s apalis
  • Shikra
  • Shinning blue-kingfisher
  • Shinning drongo
  • Short-toed snake-eagle
  • Siffling cisticola
  • Simple greenbul
  • Singing bush-lark
  • Singing cisticola
  • Slender-billed greenbul
  • Slender-billed weaver
  • Small buttonquail
  • Snowy-crowned robin-chat
  • Sooty boubou
  • Sooty shearwater
  • Sooty tern
  • Speckled pigeon
  • Speckled tinkerbird
  • Speckle-fronted weaver
  • Splendid glossy-starling
  • Splendid sunbird
  • Spotted flycatcher
  • Spotted honeyguide
  • Spotted redshank
  • Spotted thick-knee
  • Spur-winged goose
  • Spur-winged lapwing
  • Squacco heron
  • Standard-winged nightjar
  • Stone partridge
  • Striated heron
  • Striped crake
  • Striped kingfisher
  • Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
  • Sun lark
  • Superb sunbird
  • Swallow-tailed bee-eater
  • Swamp flycatcher
  • Swamp greenbul
  • Swamp nightjar
  • Tambourine dove
  • Tawny eagle
  • Tawny pipit
  • Tawny-flanked prinia
  • Temmnick’s courser
  • Temmnick’s stint
  • Terek sandpiper
  • Tessmann’s flycatcher
  • Thick-billed cuckoo
  • Thrush nightingale
  • Tiny sunbird
  • Tit-hylia
  • Togo paradise-whydah
  • Tree pipit
  • Tropical boubou
  • Ussher’s flycatcher
  • Variable indigobird
  • Variable sunbird
  • Verreaux’s eagle-owl
  • Vieillot’s barbet
  • Vieillot’s weaver
  • Village indigobird
  • Village weaver
  • Vinaceous dove
  • Violet turaco
  • Violet-backed hyliota
  • Violet-backed starling
  • Viteline’s masked-weaver
  • Wahlberg’s eagle
  • Wahlberg’s honeyguide
  • Water thick-knee
  • Wattled lapwing
  • West African batis
  • West African seed-eater
  • West African wattle-eye
  • Western black-headed oriole
  • Western bluebill
  • Western bonelli’s warbler
  • Western bronze-napped pigeon
  • Western nicator
  • Western olivaceous warbler
  • Western olive-sunbird
  • Western orphean warbler
  • Western plantain-eater
  • Western reef-heron
  • Western square-tailed drongo
  • Western violet-backed sunbird
  • Western yellow wagtail
  • Western-bearded greenbul
  • Whimbrel
  • Whinchat
  • Whiskered tern
  • Whistling cisticola
  • White helmet-shrike
  • White shouldered black-tit
  • White stork
  • White wagtail
  • White-backed duck
  • White-backed night-heron
  • White-backed vulture
  • White-bellied bustard
  • White-bellied kingfisher
  • White-billed buffalo-weaver
  • White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
  • White-browed forest flycatcher
  • White-crested bittern
  • White-crested hornbill
  • White-crowned robin-chat
  • White-faced whistling duck
  • White-fronted black-chat
  • White-fronted plover
  • White-headed lapwing
  • White-headed vulture
  • White-necked rockfowl
  • White-rumped seed-eater
  • White-rumped swift
  • White-spotted flufftail
  • White-tailed alethe
  • White-tailed ant-thrush
  • White-throated bee-eater
  • White-throated blue-swallow
  • White-throated francolin
  • White-throated greenbul
  • White-winged tern
  • Willock’s honeyguide
  • Willow warbler
  • Winding cisticola
  • Wire-tailed swallow
  • Wood sandpiper
  • Wood warbler
  • Woodchat shrike
  • Woodland kingfisher
  • Woolly-necked stork
  • Yellow casqued hornbill
  • Yellow crowned bishop
  • Yellow penduline-tit
  • Yellow-bellied hyliota
  • Yellow-billed barbet
  • Yellow-billed ox-pecker
  • Yellow-billed shrike
  • Yellow-billed stork
  • Yellow-breasted apalis
  • Yellow-browed camaroptera
  • Yellow-fronted canary
  • Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
  • Yellow-mantled weaver
  • Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
  • Yellow-shouldered widowbird
  • Yellow-spotted barbet
  • Yellow-throated cuckoo
  • Yellow-throated greenbul
  • Yellow-throated longclaw
  • Yellow-throated tinkerbird
  • Yellow-whiskered greenbul
  • Zebra waxbill
  • Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Togo

The best time to visit Togo is from November to February when temperatures are at their most pleasant. For visiting the south (where the capital Lome and Lake Togo is located), travel from mid-June to mid-September can also be a good time; generally, this area experiences a dry spell during the wet season.

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