List of Birds of Zimbabwe

List of Birds of Zimbabwe

Some key destinations for bird watching in Zimbabwe include the dry Kalahari environment of Hwange National Park, the lush rainforests localized in the tiny Victoria Falls National Park, and the rocky shores of Lake Kariba. Meanwhile, Mana Pools National Park may be renowned for its walking safaris, but it’s well worth a visit for its birdlife which varies from massive goliath herons to the tiny, iridescent Shelley’s sunbird.

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  • Abbott’s starling
  • Abdi’s stork
  • Aberdare cisticola
  • Abyssinian crimsoning
  • Abyssinian ground thrush
  • Abyssinian ground-hornbill
  • Abyssinian nightjar
  • Abyssinian owl
  • Abyssinian roller
  • Abyssinian scimitarbill
  • Abyssinian thrush
  • Abyssinian wheatear
  • African barred owlet
  • African black duck
  • African black-headed oriole
  • African blue flycatcher
  • African broadbill
  • African citril
  • 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 goshawk
  • African grass-owl
  • African gray flycatcher
  • African gray hornbill
  • African gray parrot
  • 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 penduline tit
  • African pied wagtail
  • African pipit
  • African pitta
  • African pygmy-goose
  • African pygmy-kingfisher
  • African rail
  • African reed warbler
  • African sacred ibis
  • African scops-owl
  • African shrike flycatcher
  • African silver bill
  • African skimmer
  • African snipe
  • African spoonbill
  • African stonechat
  • African swamphen
  • African swift
  • African thrush
  • African wood owl
  • African yellow warbler
  • African yellow white-eye
  • African-bare-eyed thrush
  • African-golden-weaver
  • Allen’s gallinule
  • Alpine swift
  • Amani sunbird
  • Amethyst Sunbird
  • Amur falcon
  • Angola swallow
  • Ansorge’s greenbul
  • Antarctic prion
  • Arabian bustard
  • Arrow-marked babbler
  • Ashy cisticola
  • Ashy flycatcher
  • Ashy starling
  • Augur buzzard
  • Ayres’s hawk-eagle
  • Baglafecht weaver
  • Bailon’s crake
  • Banded martin
  • Banded parisoma
  • Banded prinia
  • Banded snake-eagle
  • Bank swallow
  • Bar-breasted firefinch
  • Bare-faced go-away-bird
  • Barn owl
  • Barn swallow
  • Barred long-tailed cuckoo
  • Barred warbler
  • Bar-tailed godwit
  • Bar-tailed trogon
  • Bar-throated apalis
  • Basra reed warbler
  • Bat hawk
  • Bateleur
  • Bat-like spinetail
  • Bearded scrub-robin
  • Bearded vulture
  • Bearded woodpecker
  • Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
  • Beautiful sunbird
  • Black bishop
  • Black coucal
  • Black crake
  • Black cuckoo
  • Black cuckoo shrike
  • Black goshawk
  • Black heron
  • Black kite
  • Black sawwing
  • Black stork
  • Black tern
  • Black-and- white shrike flycatcher
  • Black-and white-casqued -hornbill
  • Black-and-white mannikin
  • Black-backed cisticola
  • Black-backed puffback
  • Black-bellied firefinch
  • Black-bellied plover
  • Black-bellied seed cracker
  • Black-bellied starling
  • Black-bellied storm petrel
  • Black-bellied sunbird
  • Black-billed barbet
  • Black-billed turaco
  • Black-billed weaver
  • Black-billed wood hoopoe
  • Black-capped social-weaver
  • Black-cheeked waxbill
  • Black-chested snake-eagle
  • Black-collared apalis
  • Black-collared barbet
  • Black-crowned crane
  • Black-crowned night-heron
  • Black-crowned tchagra
  • Black-crowned waxbill
  • Black-eared wheatear
  • Black-faced rufous warbler
  • Black-faced sand grouse
  • Black-faced waxbill
  • Black-fronted bushshrike
  • Black-fronted francolin
  • Black-headed apalis
  • Black-headed gonolek
  • Black-headed gull
  • Black-headed heron
  • Black-headed lapwing
  • Black-headed paradise flycatcher
  • Black-headed weaver
  • Black-headed wood hoopoe
  • Black-lored babbler
  • Black-necked weaver
  • Black-rumped buttonquail
  • Black-rumped waxbill
  • Black-shouldered nightjar
  • Blacksmith lapwing
  • Black-tailed godwit
  • Black-tailed oriole
  • Black-throated apalis
  • Black-throated barbet
  • Black-throated canary
  • Black-throated wattle-eye
  • Black-winged bishop
  • Black-winged kite
  • Black-winged lapwing
  • Black-winged pranticole
  • Black-winged stilt
  • Blue malkoha
  • Blue quail
  • Blue-breasted bee-eater
  • Blue-breasted kingfisher
  • Blue-capped cordonbleu
  • Blue-cheeked bee-eater
  • Blue-headed bee-eater
  • Blue-headed coucal
  • Blue-napped mouse bird
  • Blue-shouldered robin-chat
  • Blue-spotted wood-dove
  • Booted eagle
  • Boran cisticola
  • Bridled tern
  • Brimstone canary
  • Bristle-crowned starling
  • Broad-billed roller
  • Broad-billed sandpiper
  • Broad-tailed paradise-whydah
  • Bronze mannikin
  • Bronze sunbird
  • Bronze-tailed starling
  • Bronze-winged courser
  • Brow-chested alethe
  • Brow-headed parrot
  • Brown babbler
  • Brown booby
  • Brown illadopsis
  • Brown noddy
  • Brown parisoma
  • Brown shrike
  • Brown skua
  • Brown snake eagle
  • Brown twinspot
  • Brown woodland-warbler
  • Brown-backed scrub-robin
  • Brown-backed woodpecker
  • Brown-breasted barbet
  • Brown-capped weaver
  • Brown-chested lapwing
  • Brown-crowned tchagra
  • Brown-eared woodpecker
  • Brown-headed apalis
  • Brown-hooded kingfisher
  • Brown-necked raven
  • Brown-tailed chat
  • Brown-throated wattle-eye
  • Brow-rumped bunting
  • Brubru
  • Bruce’s green pigeon
  • Buff-bellied warbler
  • Buff-breasted sandpiper
  • Buff-spotted flufftail
  • Buff-spotted woodpecker
  • Buff-throated apalis
  • Buffy pipit
  • Bush pipit
  • Cabanis’s greenbul
  • Cape crow
  • Cape eagle-owl
  • Cape petrel
  • Cape robin-chat
  • Cape teal
  • Cape wagtail
  • Capped wheatear
  • Cardinal quelea
  • Cardinal woodpecker
  • Carruther’s cisticola
  • Caspian plover
  • Caspian tern
  • Cassin’s hawk-eagle
  • Cassin’s honeyguide
  • Cattle egret
  • Chapin’s flycatcher
  • Chestnut sparrow
  • Chestnut wattle-eye
  • Chestnut weaver
  • Chestnut-backed sparrow-tit
  • Chestnut-banded plover
  • Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
  • Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
  • Chestnut-fronted helmet shrike
  • Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark
  • Chestnut-throated apalis
  • Chinspot batis
  • Chubb’s cisticola
  • Cinnamon-bracken warbler
  • Cinnamon-breasted bunting
  • Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
  • Clark’s weaver
  • Coastal boubou
  • Coastal cisticola
  • Collared flycatcher
  • Collared lark
  • Collared palm-thrush
  • Collared pranticole
  • 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 sandpiper
  • Common scimitarbill
  • Common snipe
  • Common square-tailed drongo
  • Common swift
  • Common tern
  • Common waxbill
  • Common-ringed plover
  • Compact weaver
  • Copper sunbird
  • Coqui francolin
  • Corn crake
  • Crab-plover
  • Cream-colored courser
  • Crested francolin
  • Crested guineafowl
  • Crested lark
  • Crimson-rumped waxbill
  • Croaking cisticola
  • Crowned eagle
  • Crowned hornbill
  • Crowned lapwing
  • Curlew sandpiper
  • Cut-throat
  • D’arnaud’s barbet
  • Dark chanting gosh-hawk
  • Delegorgue’s pigeon
  • Demoiselle crane
  • Denham’s bustard
  • Desert cisticola
  • Desert wheatear
  • Dickinson’s kestrel
  • Dideric cuckoo
  • Doherty’s bushshrike
  • Donaldson smith’s sparrow-weaver
  • Donaldson-smith’s nightjar
  • Double-banded courser
  • Double-toothed barbet
  • Dunlin
  • Dusky crested-flycatcher
  • Dusky tit
  • Dusky turtle-dove
  • Dwarf bittern
  • Eared grebe
  • East coast akalat
  • Eastern black-headed batis
  • Eastern double-collared sunbird
  • Eastern mountain greenbul
  • Eastern nicator
  • Eastern olivaceous warbler
  • Eastern paradise whydah
  • Eastern plantain eater
  • Eastern violet-backed sunbird
  • Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
  • Eastern-chanting-goshawk
  • Egyptian goose
  • Egyptian vulture
  • Eleonora’s falcon
  • Emerald-spotted wood-dove
  • Equatorial akalat
  • Ethiopian boubou
  • Ethiopian swallow
  • Eurasian blackcap
  • Eurasian curlew
  • Eurasian golden oriole
  • Eurasian griffon
  • Eurasian hobby
  • Eurasian hoopoe
  • Eurasian kestrel
  • Eurasian marsh harrier
  • Eurasian moorhen
  • Eurasian nightjar
  • Eurasian oyestercatcher
  • Eurasian scops-owl
  • Eurasian sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian spoonbill
  • Eurasian thick-knee
  • Eurasian wigeon
  • Eurasian wryneck
  • Eurasian-reed warbler
  • European bee-eater
  • European honey-buzzard
  • European pied flycatcher
  • European roller
  • European turtle-dove
  • Evergreen forest warbler
  • Familiar chat
  • Fan-tailed grassbird
  • Fan-tailed raven
  • Fan-tailed widowbird
  • Fasciated snake-eagle
  • Fawn-breasted waxbill
  • Ferruginous duck
  • Fiery-necked nightjar
  • Fire-fronted bishop
  • Fischer’s greenbul
  • Fischer’s lovebird
  • Fischer’s sparrow lark
  • Fischer’s starling
  • Fischer’s turaco
  • Flappet lark
  • Forbes-watson’s swift
  • Forest robin
  • Forest weaver
  • Forest wood hoopoe
  • Fork-tailed drongo
  • Four-banded sandgrouse
  • Four-colored bushshrike
  • Fox kestrel
  • Foxy cisticola
  • Foxy lark
  • Freckled nightjar
  • Friedmann’s lark
  • Fulvous whistling-duck
  • Gabar goshawk
  • Gadwall
  • Gambaga flycatcher
  • Garden warbler
  • Garganey
  • Giant kingfisher
  • Gillet’s lark
  • Glossy ibis
  • Glossy-backed drongo
  • Golden pipit
  • Golden-backed weaver
  • Golden-breasted bunting
  • Golden-breasted starling
  • Golden-crowned woodpecker
  • Golden-palm weaver
  • Golden-tailed woodpecker
  • Golden-winged sunbird
  • Goliath heron
  • Grasshopper buzzard
  • Gray apalis
  • Gray heron
  • Gray kestrel
  • Gray wagtail
  • Gray-backed fiscal
  • Gray-capped warbler
  • Gray-chested babbler
  • Gray-crested helmet shrike
  • Gray-crowned crane
  • Gray-green bushshrike
  • Gray-greenbul
  • Gray-headed batis
  • Gray-headed bushshrike
  • Gray-headed kingfisher
  • Gray-headed nigrita
  • Gray-headed silver bird
  • Gray-headed social-weaver
  • Gray-hooded gull
  • Grayish eagle-owl
  • Gray-olive greenbul
  • Gray-rumped swallow
  • Gray-throated barbet
  • Gray-tit flycatcher
  • Gray-winged robin-chat
  • Gray-wren warbler
  • Great bittern
  • Great cormorant
  • Great crested grebe
  • Great egret
  • Great reed warbler
  • Great snipe
  • Great white pelican
  • Great-blue turaco
  • Great-crested tern
  • Greater
  • Greater blue-eared starling
  • Greater flamingo
  • Greater honeyguide
  • Greater painted-snipe
  • Greater sand plover
  • Greater spotted eagle
  • Greater swamp warbler
  • Greater whitethroat
  • Great-spotted cuckoo
  • Green barbet
  • Green bee-eater
  • Green crombec
  • Green hylia
  • Green malkoha
  • Green sandpiper
  • Green sunbird
  • Green tinkerbird
  • Green wood hoopoe
  • Green-backed camaroptera
  • Green-backed eremomela
  • Green-backed honeyguide
  • Green-backed twinspot
  • Green-backed woodpecker
  • Greencap eremomela
  • Green-headed oriole
  • Green-headed sunbird
  • Green-throated brown sunbird
  • Green-winged pytilia
  • Green-winged teal
  • Grosbeak weaver
  • Gull-billed tern
  • Hadada ibis
  • Hairy-breasted barbet
  • Half-collared kingfisher
  • Hamerkop
  • Harlequin quail
  • Hartlaub’s bustard
  • Hartlaub’s turaco
  • Helmeted guineafowl
  • Hemprich’s hornbill
  • Heuglin’s bustard
  • Heuglin’s masked weaver
  • Heuglin’s wheatear
  • Heuglin’s white-eye
  • Hildebrandt’s francolin
  • Hildebrandt’s starling
  • Hinde’s pied babbler
  • Holub’s golden weaver
  • Honeyguide greenbul
  • Hooded vulture
  • Horus swift
  • Hottentot
  • House crow
  • House sparrow
  • Hunter’s cisticola
  • Hunter’s sunbird
  • Icterine warbler
  • Imperial eagle
  • Indian silver bill
  • Intermediate egret
  • Iouanin’s petrel
  • Isabelline shrike
  • Isabelline wheatear
  • Jack snipe
  • Jackson’s francolin
  • Jackson’s hornbill
  • Jackson’s widowbird
  • Jameson’s firefinch
  • Jameson’s wattle-eye
  • Joyful greenbul
  • Kandt’s waxbill
  • Karamoja apalis
  • Kelp gull
  • Kenrick’s starling
  • Kentish plover
  • Kenya rufous sparrow
  • Kestrel
  • Kikuyu white-eye
  • Kittlitz’s plover
  • Klaas’s cuckoo
  • Knob-billed duck
  • Kori bustard
  • Lanner falcon
  • Lappet-faced vulture
  • Laughing dove
  • Lesser jacana
  • Lesser kestrel
  • Lesser masked-weaver
  • Lesser moorhen
  • Lesser sand-plover
  • Lesser seed cracker
  • Lesser swamp warbler
  • Lesser-gray shrike
  • Lesser-spotted eagle
  • Levaillant’s cisticola
  • Levallant’s cuckoo
  • Levant sparrow hawk
  • Lilac-breasted roller
  • Lilian’s love bird
  • Little bee-eater
  • Little bittern
  • Little egret
  • Little grebe
  • Little green sunbird
  • Little greenbul
  • Little ringed plover
  • Little rock thrush
  • Little sparrow hawk
  • Little stint
  • Little swift
  • Little tern
  • Little weaver
  • Little-rush warbler
  • Livingstone’s flycatcher
  • Livingstone’s turaco
  • Lizard buzzard
  • Locustfinch
  • Long-billed pipit
  • Long-billed tailor bird
  • Long-crested eagle
  • Long-legged buzzard
  • Long-tailed cormorant
  • Long-tailed fiscal
  • Long-tailed jaeger
  • Long-toed lapwing
  • Loveridge’s sunbird
  • Luhder’s bush shrike
  • Maccoa duck
  • Mackinnon’s shrike
  • Madagascar bee-eater
  • Madagascar cuckoo
  • Madagascar pond-heron
  • Madagascar pratincole
  • Magpie manikin
  • Magpie shrike
  • Magpie starling
  • Malachite kingfisher
  • Malachite sunbird
  • Mangrove kingfisher
  • Marabou stork
  • Mariqua sunbird
  • Marsh owl
  • Marsh sandpiper
  • Marsh tchagra
  • Marsh warbler
  • Marsh widowbird
  • Martial eagle
  • Mascarene martin
  • Masked apalis
  • Masked booby
  • Masked shrike
  • Mbulu white-eye
  • Meyer’s parrot
  • Miombo barbet
  • Miombo rock thrush
  • Miombo scrub-robin
  • Miombo tit
  • Miombo wren-warbler
  • Mocking cliff-chat
  • Mombasa woodpecker
  • Montagu’s harrier
  • Montane-blue swallow
  • Moorland chat
  • Moreau’s sunbird
  • Mosque swallow
  • Mottled spinetail
  • Mottled swift
  • Mountain buzzard
  • Mountain gray woodpecker
  • Mountain wagtail
  • Mountain-yellow warbler
  • Mourning collard-dove
  • Mourning wheatear
  • Mouse-collard penduline- tit
  • Mouse-colored sunbird
  • Moustached grass-warbler
  • Moustached tinker bird
  • Mrs. Moreau’s warbler
  • Namaqua dove
  • Narina trogon
  • Northern anteater chat
  • Northern black-flycatcher
  • Northern brownbul
  • Northern brown-throated weaver
  • Northern -carmine bee-eater
  • Northern crombec
  • Northern fiscal
  • Northern pied-babbler
  • Northern pintail
  • Northern red-billed hornbill
  • Northern shoveler
  • Northern wheatear
  • Northern-gray headed sparrow
  • Nubian woodpecker
  • Nyanza swift
  • Olive bellied sunbird
  • Olive ibis
  • Olive sunbird
  • Olive tree-warbler
  • Olive woodpecker
  • Olive woodpecker
  • Olive-flanked robin chat
  • Olive-green camoroptera
  • Olive-headed weaver
  • Orange ground thrush
  • Orange tufted sunbird
  • Orange weaver
  • Orange-winged pytilia
  • Oriental honey-buzzard
  • Oriole finch
  • Osprey
  • Oustalet’s sunbird
  • Ovambo sparrow hawk
  • Pacific golden-plover
  • Pale batis
  • Pale flycatcher
  • Pale prinia
  • Pale white-eye
  • Pale-billed hornbill
  • Pale-crown cisticola
  • Pale-crowned cisticola
  • Pallid harrier
  • Pallid honey guide
  • Pallid swift
  • Palm-nut vulture
  • Pangani longclaw
  • Papyrus canary
  • Papyrus gonolek
  • Parasitic weaver
  • Parrot-billed sparrow
  • Pearl spotted-owlet
  • Pearl-breasted swallow
  • Pectoral-patch cisticola
  • Pel’s fishing-owl
  • Pemba scops -owl
  • Pemba sunbird
  • Pemba white-eye
  • Pemba-green pigeon
  • Pennant-winged nightjar
  • Leach’s storm petrel
  • Least honeyguide
  • Lemon dove
  • Lesser black-backed gull
  • Lesser blue-eared starling
  • Lesser crested tern
  • Lesser cuckoo
  • Lesser flamingo
  • Lesser frigatebird
  • Lesser gray shrike
  • Lesser honeyguide
  • Lesser jacana
  • Lesser kestrel
  • Lesser masked weaver
  • Lesser moorhen
  • Lesser noddy
  • Lesser sand plover
  • Lesser spotted eagle
  • Lesser swamp warbler
  • Lesser whitethroat
  • Lesser-striped swallow
  • Levaillant’s cisticola
  • Levaillant’s cuckoo
  • Levant sparrow hawk
  • Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
  • Lilac-breasted roller
  • Little bee-eater
  • Little bittern
  • Little crake
  • Little egret
  • Little grebe
  • Little greenbul
  • Little ringed plover
  • Little rock-thrush
  • Little rush warbler
  • Little sparrowhawk
  • Little stint
  • Little swift
  • Little tern
  • Little weaver
  • Lizard buzzard
  • Locust finch
  • Long-billed pipit
  • Long-crested eagle
  • Long-legged buzzard
  • Long-tailed cormorant
  • Long-tailed fiscal
  • Long-tailed jaeger
  • Long-tailed nightjar
  • Long-tailed widowbird
  • Long-toed lapwing
  • Long-toed stint
  • Lowland sooty boubou
  • Luhder’s bush shrike
  • Maccoa duck
  • Mackinnon’s shrike
  • Madagascar bee-eater
  • Madagascar cuckoo
  • Madagascar pond heron
  • Madagascar pranticole
  • Magpie mannikin
  • Magpie shrike
  • Magpie starling
  • Malachite kingfisher
  • Malachite sunbird
  • Malindi pipit
  • Mallard
  • Mangrove kingfisher
  • Marabou stork
  • Mariqua sunbird
  • Marsh owl
  • Marsh sandpiper
  • Marsh tchagra
  • Marsh warbler
  • Marsh widowbird
  • Martial eagle
  • Mascarene martin
  • Masked booby
  • Masked lark
  • Masked shrike
  • Matsudaira’s storm petrel
  • Mbulu white-eye
  • Mediteranean gull
  • Melodious warbler
  • Meyer’s parrot
  • Miombo wren warbler
  • Mocking cliff-chat
  • Mombasa woodpecker
  • Montagu’s harrier
  • Montane-blue swallow
  • Mooreland francolin
  • Moorland chat
  • Mosque swallow
  • Mottled spintail
  • Mottled swift
  • Mountain buzzard
  • Mountain illadopsis
  • Mountain wagtail
  • Mountain yellow warbler
  • Mountain-gray woodpecker
  • Mourning collared-dove
  • Mourning wheatear
  • Mouse-colored penduline-tit
  • Moustached grass-warbler
  • Moustached tinkerbird
  • Namaqua dove
  • Narina trogon
  • Northern anteater-chat
  • Northern black fly-catcher
  • Northern brownbul
  • Northern brown-throated weaver
  • Northern carmine bee-eater
  • Northern crombec
  • Northern double-collared sunbird
  • Northern fiscal
  • Northern gray-headed sparrow
  • Northern grosebeak-canary
  • Northern lapwing
  • Northern masked weaver
  • Northern pied babbler
  • 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 bellied sunbird
  • Olive ibis
  • Olive-green camaroptera
  • Olive-tree warbler
  • Orange ground thrush
  • Orange weaver
  • Orange-tufted sunbird
  • Orange-winged pytilia
  • Oriole finch
  • Ortolan bunting
  • Osprey
  • Ovambo sparrowhawk
  • Pacific golden plover
  • Pale batis
  • Pale flycatcher
  • Pale prinia
  • Pale white-eye
  • Pale-breasted illadopsis
  • Pallas’s gull
  • Pallid harrier
  • Pallid honeyguide
  • Pallid swift
  • Palm-nut vulture
  • Pangani longclaw
  • Papyrus canary
  • Papyrus gonolek
  • Papyrus yellow-warbler
  • Parasitic jaeger
  • Parasitic weaver
  • Parrot-billed sparrow
  • Pearl-spotted owlet
  • Pectoral sandpiper
  • Pectoral-patch cisticola
  • Pel’s fishing owl
  • Pennant-winged nightjar
  • Peregrine falcon
  • Persian shearwater
  • Peters’s twinspot
  • Petit’s cuckoo shrike
  • Piapiac
  • Pied avocet
  • Pied crow
  • Pied cuckoo
  • Pied kingfisher
  • Pied wheatear
  • Pink-backed pelican
  • Pink-breasted lark
  • Pink-footed puffback
  • Pin-tailed snipe
  • Pin-tailed whydah
  • Plain greenbul
  • Plain martin
  • Plain nightjar
  • Plain-backed pipit
  • Plain-backed sunbird
  • Pomarine jaeger
  • Pringle’s puffback
  • Purple grenadier
  • Purple heron
  • Purple indigobird
  • Purple starling
  • Purple-banded sunbird
  • Purple-crested turaco
  • Purple-headed starling
  • Purple-throated cuckoo shrike
  • Pygmy batis
  • Pygmy falcon
  • Pygmy sunbird
  • Quail finch
  • Quail-plover
  • Rameron pigeon
  • Rattling cisticola
  • Red knot
  • Red phalarope
  • Red-backed scrub-robin
  • Red-backed shrike
  • Red-bellied parrot
  • Red-billed buffalo-weaver
  • Red-billed duck
  • Red-billed firefinch
  • Red-billed ox-pecker
  • Red-billed quelea
  • Red-capped lark
  • Red-capped robin-chat
  • Red-cheeked cordonbleu
  • Red-chested cuckoo
  • Red-chested flufftail
  • Red-chested owlet
  • Red-chested sunbird
  • Red-collared widowbird
  • Red-eyed dove
  • Red-faced cisticola
  • Red-faced crombec
  • Red-footed booby
  • Red-footed falcon
  • Red-fronted barbet
  • Red-fronted parrot
  • Red-fronted prinia
  • Red-fronted tinkerbird
  • Red-headed bluebill
  • Red-headed lovebird
  • Red-headed malimbe
  • Red-headed quelea
  • Red-headed weaver
  • Red-knobbed coot
  • Red-napped bush shrike
  • Red-necked falcon
  • Red-necked francolin
  • Red-necked phalarope
  • Red-necked stint
  • Red-pate cisticola
  • Red-rumped swallow
  • Red-shouldered cuckoo shrike
  • Red-tailed ant-thrush
  • Red-tailed bristlebill
  • Red-tailed shrike
  • Red-tailed tropicbird
  • Red-throated pipit
  • Red-throated tit
  • Red-tufted sunbird
  • Red-winged francolin
  • Red-winged lark
  • Red-winged prinia
  • Red-winged starling
  • Reichard’s seedeater
  • Reichenow’s seedeater
  • Retz’s helmet shrike
  • Ring-necked dove
  • River prinia
  • River warbler
  • Rock kestrel
  • Rock martin
  • Rock pigeon
  • Rock pranticole
  • Rock-loving cisticola
  • Roseate tern
  • Ross’s turaco
  • Rosy-patched bushshrike
  • Rosy-throated longclaw
  • Ruddy shelduck
  • Ruddy turnstone
  • Ruff
  • Rufous chatterer
  • Rufous-bellied heron
  • Rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
  • Rufous-chested swallow
  • Rufous-crowned roller
  • Rufous-napped lark
  • Rufous-necked wryneck
  • Rufous-tailed rock thrush
  • Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
  • Rufous-tailed weaver
  • Ruppell’s griffon
  • Ruppell’s robin-chat
  • Ruppell’s starling
  • Ruppell’s weaver
  • Sabine’s spinetail
  • Saddle-billed stork
  • Saker falcon
  • Salvadori’s weaver
  • Sanderling
  • Sandwich tern
  • Saunder’s tern
  • Savi’s warbler
  • Scaly babbler
  • Scaly chatterer
  • Scaly francolin
  • Scaly-breasted illadopsis
  • Scaly-throated honeyguide
  • Scarce swift
  • Scarlet-chested sunbird
  • Schalow’s turaco
  • Scissor-tailed kite
  • Secretary bird
  • Sedge warbler
  • Semi-collared flycatcher
  • Senegal coucal
  • Senegal lapwing
  • Senegal thick-knee
  • Sharpe’s longclaw
  • Sharpe’s starling
  • Shelley’s francolin
  • Shelley’s greenbul
  • Shelley’s rufous sparrow
  • Shelley’s starling
  • Shikra
  • Shining sunbird
  • Shining-blue kingfisher
  • Shoebill stork
  • Short-eared owl
  • Short-tailed batis
  • Short-tailed lark
  • Short-toed snake-eagle
  • Siffling cisticola
  • Silverbird
  • Silvery-cheeked hornbill
  • Singing bushlark
  • Singing cisticola
  • Slate-colored boubou
  • Slender-billed greenbul
  • Slender-billed gull
  • Slender-billed prion
  • Slender-billed starling
  • Slender-billed weaver
  • Slender-tailed nightjar
  • Small buttonquail
  • Snowy-crowned robin-chat
  • Sokoke pipit
  • Sokoke scops-owl
  • Somali bee-eater
  • Somali bunting
  • Somali courser
  • Somali crombec
  • Somali crow
  • Somali fiscal
  • Somali ostrich
  • Somali short-toed lark
  • Somali sparrow
  • Somali tit
  • Somber greenbul
  • Somber nightjar
  • Sooty chat
  • Sooty falcon
  • Sooty gull
  • Sooty shearwater
  • Sooty tern
  • South African swallow
  • Southern black fly-catcher
  • Southern carmine bee-eater
  • Southern citril
  • Southern grosebeak canary
  • Southern ground-hornbill
  • Southern hyliota
  • Southern pochard
  • Southern red bishop
  • Southern white-faced owl
  • Southern-giant petrel
  • Speckle-breasted woodpecker
  • Speckled mouse bird
  • Speckled pigeon
  • Speckled tinkerbird
  • Speckle-fronted weaver
  • Spectacled weaver
  • Speke’s weaver
  • Splendid starling
  • Spot-flanked barbet
  • Spotted crake
  • Spotted eagle-owl
  • Spotted flycatcher
  • Spotted ground thrush
  • Spotted morning thrush
  • Spotted redshank
  • Spotted sandpiper
  • Spotted thick-knee
  • Spur-winged goose
  • Spur-winged lapwing
  • Squacco heron
  • Square-tailed nightjar
  • Standard-winged nightjar
  • Star-spotted nightjar
  • Steel-blue whydah
  • Steppe eagle
  • Stone patridge
  • Stout cisticola
  • Straw-tailed whydah
  • Streaky seedeater
  • Streaky-breasted flufftail
  • Striated heron
  • Striolated bunting
  • Stripe-cheeked greenbul
  • Striped crake
  • Striped flufftail
  • Striped kingfisher
  • Striped pipit
  • Stuhlmann’s starling
  • Sulfur-breasted bushshrike
  • Superb starling
  • Superb sunbird
  • Swahili sparrow
  • Swainson’s sparrow
  • Swallow-tailed bee-eater
  • Swamp flycatcher
  • Swamp nightjar
  • Tabora cisticola
  • Tacazze sunbird
  • Taita apalis
  • Taita falcon
  • Taita fiscal
  • Taita thrush
  • Taita white-eye
  • Tambourine dove
  • Tana-river cisticola
  • Taveta golden-weaver
  • Tawny eagle
  • Tawny pipit
  • Tawny-flanked prinia
  • Temmnick’s courser
  • Temmnick’s stint
  • Terek sandpiper
  • Terrestrial brownbul
  • Thekla’s lark
  • Thick-billed cuckoo
  • Thick-billed honeyguide
  • Thick-billed seedeater
  • Three-banded courser
  • Three-banded plover
  • Three-streaked tchagra
  • Thrush nightingale
  • Tiny cisticola
  • Tiny greenbul
  • Toro olive-greenbul
  • Tree pipit
  • Trilling cicticola
  • Tropical boubou
  • Trumpeter hornbill
  • Tsavo sunbird
  • Tufted duck
  • Tullberg’s woodpecker
  • Turner’s eremomela
  • Uganda woodland-warbler
  • Uluguru violet-backed sunbird
  • Upcher’s warbler
  • Usambara double-collared sunbird
  • Variable indigobird
  • Variable sunbird
  • Velvet-mantled drongo
  • Verreaux eagle-owl
  • Verreaux’s eagle
  • Vieillot’s weaver
  • Village indigobird
  • Village weaver
  • Violet wood hoopoe
  • Violet-backed starling
  • Violet-breasted sunbird
  • Vitelline masked-weaver
  • Von der decken’s hornbill
  • Vulturine guineafowl
  • Wahlberg’s eagle
  • Wahlberg’s honeyguide
  • Wailing cisticola
  • Waller’s starling
  • Water thick-knee
  • Wattled lapwing
  • Wattled starling
  • Wedge-tailed shearwater
  • West African seedeater
  • Western black-headed oriole
  • Western citril
  • Western nicator
  • Western reef heron
  • Western violet-backed sunbird
  • Western-black-headed batis
  • Western-yellow wagtail
  • Whimbrel
  • Whinchat
  • Whiskered tern
  • Whistling cisticola
  • White helmet shrike
  • White stork
  • White wagtail
  • White-backed duck
  • White-backed night-heron
  • White-backed vulture
  • White-bellied bustard
  • White-bellied canary
  • White-bellied go-away-bird
  • White-bellied tit
  • White-billed buffalo weaver
  • White-breasted cuckoo shrike
  • White-breasted nigrita
  • White-browed coucal
  • White-browed crombec
  • White-browed robin-chat
  • White-browed sparrow-weaver
  • White-capped albatross
  • White-cheeked tern
  • White-chinned petrel
  • White-chinned prinia
  • White-crested turaco
  • White-crowned starling
  • White-eared barbet
  • White-eyed gull
  • White-eyed slaty fly-catcher
  • White-faced whistling duck
  • White-fronted bee-eater
  • White-fronted plover
  • White-headed barbet
  • White-headed buffalo-weaver
  • White-headed mouse bird
  • White-headed sawwing
  • White-headed vulture
  • White-necked raven
  • White-rumped shrike
  • White-rumped swift
  • White-shouldered black-tit
  • White-spotted flufftail
  • White-starred robin
  • White-tailed ant-thrush
  • White-tailed crested-flycatcher
  • White-tailed lark
  • White-tailed tropicbird
  • White-throated bee-eater
  • White-throated greenbul
  • White-throated robin
  • White-winged apalis
  • White-winged black-tit
  • White-winged collared-dove
  • White-winged swamp warbler
  • White-winged tern
  • White-winged widowbird
  • William’s lark
  • Willow warbler
  • Wilson’s storm petrel
  • Winding cisicola
  • Wing-snapping cisticola
  • Wire-tailed swallow
  • Wood sandpiper
  • Wood warbler
  • Woodchat shrike
  • Woodland kingfisher
  • Woolly-necked stork
  • Yellow bishop
  • Yellow-and-red barbet
  • Yellow-bellied eremomela
  • Yellow-bellied greenbul
  • Yellow-bellied hyliota
  • Yellow-bellied wattle-eye
  • Yellow-bellied waxbill
  • Yellow-billed barbet
  • Yellow-billed duck
  • Yellow-billed ox-pecker
  • Yellow-billed shrike
  • Yellow-billed stork
  • Yellow-breasted apalis
  • Yellow-collared lovebird
  • Yellow-crowned bishop
  • Yellow-crowned canary
  • Yellow-fronted canary
  • Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
  • Yellow-mantled weaver
  • Yellow-mantled widowbird
  • Yellow-necked francolin
  • Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
  • Yellow-spotted barbet
  • Yellow-spotted bush-sparrow
  • Yellow-streaked bulbul
  • Yellow-throated greenbul
  • Yellow-throated longclaw
  • Yellow-throated sand grouse
  • Yellow-throated woodland-warbler
  • Yellow-vented eremomela
  • Yellow-whiskered bulbul
  • Zanzibar boubou
  • Zanzibar red bishop
  • Zebra waxbill
  • Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Zimbabwe

Whilst Zimbabwe doesn’t have any endemics, it’s still great for bird watching. A Zimbabwe holiday that focuses on bird-watching would be best during the rains (Oct-March) – as then food is plentiful, migrants are around and many species are in breeding plumage. Specialties include the rare Angola pitta (or ‘African Pitta’) and the Taita Falcon.

There have been over 650 bird species recorded in Zimbabwe, and eight of the ten families endemic to the African mainland are represented here.

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