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Bird Observations

Date Range:
Jan-Dec, 1900-2025

Central

Updated ~38 hr(s) ago.

635 species (+61 other taxa) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Common Ostrich
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
White-backed Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
African Pygmy-Goose
Garganey
Blue-billed Teal
Northern Shoveler
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Cape Teal
Red-billed Duck
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Southern Pochard
Ferruginous Duck
Tufted Duck
Maccoa Duck
duck sp.
Helmeted Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl
Eastern Crested Guineafowl
Crested Francolin
Coqui Francolin
Elgon Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Common Quail
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Harlequin Quail
Jackson's Spurfowl
Hildebrandt's Spurfowl
Scaly Spurfowl
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
francolin/spurfowl sp.
Rock Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
Rameron Pigeon
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
Columba sp.
Lemon Dove
Dusky Turtle-Dove
Mourning Collared-Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Ring-necked Dove
Streptopelia sp.
Laughing Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Namaqua Dove
African Green-Pigeon
pigeon/dove sp.
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
Black-faced Sandgrouse
Kori Bustard
White-bellied Bustard
Black-bellied Bustard
Hartlaub's Bustard
White-bellied Go-away-bird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Purple-crested Turaco
Hartlaub's Turaco
Blue-headed Coucal
White-browed Coucal
Green Malkoha
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Thick-billed Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Lesser Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Cuculus sp.
cuckoo sp. (Cuculidae sp.)
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Eurasian Nightjar
Sombre Nightjar
Donaldson Smith's Nightjar
Montane Nightjar
Plain Nightjar
Slender-tailed Nightjar
nightjar sp.
Mottled Spinetail
Scarce Swift
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
Nyanza Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
Apus/Tachymarptis sp.
African Palm Swift
small swift sp.
swift sp.
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Streaky-breasted Flufftail
Striped Flufftail
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Rail
Corn Crake
African Crake
Spotted Crake
Lesser Moorhen
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
Allen's Gallinule
African Swamphen
Striped Crake
Black Crake
Baillon's Crake
African Finfoot
Gray Crowned-Crane
Spotted Thick-knee
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Water Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Long-toed Lapwing
Blacksmith Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
Black-winged Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Brown-chested Lapwing
Caspian Plover
Kittlitz's Plover
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Greater Painted-Snipe
Lesser Jacana
African Jacana
Black-tailed Godwit
Jack Snipe
Great Snipe
African Snipe
Common Snipe
snipe sp.
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Common Greenshank
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Little Stint
Small Buttonquail
Temminck's Courser
Collared Pratincole
shorebird sp.
Black-headed Gull
Gray-hooded Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
tern sp.
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Eared Grebe
Tropical Shearwater
African Openbill
Black Stork
Abdim's Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Darter
Reed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Olive Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
Western Reef-Heron
White-backed Night Heron
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Striated Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Squacco Heron
Malagasy Pond-Heron
Western Cattle-Egret
Western/Eastern Cattle-Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
white egret sp.
Hamerkop
Great White Pelican
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Pink-backed Pelican
Secretarybird
Osprey
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Bearded Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
African Cuckoo-Hawk
European Honey-buzzard
White-headed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon
old world vulture sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Bateleur
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
snake-eagle sp.
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
Booted Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Cassin's Hawk-Eagle
Verreaux's Eagle
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Hawk-Eagle
Bat Hawk
Gabar Goshawk
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
Lizard Buzzard
African Goshawk
Little Sparrowhawk
Shikra
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Western Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Montagu's Harrier
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Grasshopper Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Common Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo sp.
hawk sp.
eagle sp.
African Grass-Owl
Western Barn Owl
African Scops-Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Cape Eagle-Owl
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Red-chested Owlet
African Wood-Owl
Marsh Owl
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
african trogon sp.
Eurasian Hoopoe
Green Woodhoopoe
White-headed Woodhoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Abyssinian Scimitarbill
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Von der Decken's Hornbill
Northern Red-billed Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
White-fronted Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Olive Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
bee-eater sp.
Half-collared Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Purple Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Red-and-yellow Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White-eared Barbet
Moustached Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
Black-throated Barbet
White-headed Barbet
Green-backed Honeybird
Brown-backed Honeybird
Pallid Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
honeyguide sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Eurasian Wryneck
Red-throated Wryneck
Bearded Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
Mountain Gray Woodpecker
Tullberg's Woodpecker
Fine-banded Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
Pygmy Falcon
Lesser Kestrel
Eurasian Kestrel
Greater Kestrel
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Amur Falcon
Eleonora's Falcon
Sooty Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
falcon sp.
Fischer's x Yellow-collared Lovebird (hybrid)
Red-fronted Parrot
Meyer's Parrot
Red-bellied Parrot
African Broadbill
African Pitta
Gray Cuckooshrike
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Black Cuckooshrike
Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
Eurasian Golden Oriole
African Golden Oriole
African Black-headed Oriole
Black-tailed Oriole
old world oriole sp.
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Chinspot Batis
White-crested Helmetshrike
Gray-crested Helmetshrike
Brubru
Northern Puffback
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Tropical Boubou
Slate-colored Boubou
Doherty's Bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Black-fronted Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Square-tailed Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Red-backed Shrike
Red-tailed Shrike
Isabelline Shrike
Red-tailed/Isabelline Shrike
Lesser Gray Shrike
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray-backed Fiscal
Long-tailed Fiscal
Taita Fiscal
Northern Fiscal
shrike sp.
White-rumped Shrike
House Crow
Cape Crow
Pied Crow
Fan-tailed Raven
White-necked Raven
crow/raven sp.
White-tailed Crested Flycatcher
White-bellied Tit
Red-throated Tit
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Penduline-Tit
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Fischer's Sparrow-Lark
Fawn-colored Lark
White-tailed Lark
Flappet Lark
Sentinel Lark
Red-capped Lark
lark sp.
White-browed Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Green-capped Eremomela
Black-collared Apalis
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray Wren-Warbler
Green-backed Camaroptera
Buff-bellied Warbler
Black-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Chestnut-throated Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Gray Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Red-fronted Prinia
Gray-capped Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Hunter's Cisticola
Rock-loving Cisticola
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Boran Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Lynes's Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Levaillant's Cisticola
Stout Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Aberdare Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Pectoral-patch Cisticola
Wing-snapping Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
African Yellow-Warbler
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Mountain Yellow-Warbler
Upcher's Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Acrocephalus sp.
Fan-tailed Grassbird
Evergreen-forest Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
Highland Rush Warbler
White-headed Sawwing
Black Sawwing
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray-rumped Swallow
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Ethiopian Martin (undescribed form)
Bank Swallow
Red-throated Crag-Martin
Barn Swallow
Ethiopian Swallow
Angola Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
African Red-rumped Swallow
European/African Red-rumped Swallow
European/African/Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Mosque Swallow
swallow sp.
Sombre Greenbul
Slender-billed Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Greenbul
Northern Brownbul
Gray-olive Greenbul
Cabanis's Greenbul
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Willow Warbler
Common Chiffchaff
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Brown Woodland-Warbler
Phylloscopus sp.
Eurasian Blackcap
Garden Warbler
African Hill Babbler
Banded Parisoma
Brown Parisoma
Greater Whitethroat
Sylvia/Curruca sp.
Pale White-eye
Kikuyu White-eye
Northern Yellow White-eye
Zosterops sp.
Rufous Chatterer
Brown Babbler
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Hinde's Pied-Babbler
Arrow-marked Babbler
Black-lored Babbler
Northern Pied-Babbler
Red-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Wattled Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Slender-billed Starling
Red-winged Starling
Waller's Starling
Sharpe's Starling
Abbott's Starling
Kenrick's Starling
Hildebrandt's Starling
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Rüppell's Starling
Superb Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
myna/starling sp.
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
Orange Ground-Thrush
African Bare-eyed Thrush
Abyssinian Thrush
African Thrush
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
African Gray Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Southern Black-Flycatcher
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
White-browed Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
Rüppell's Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
robin-chat sp.
Spotted Morning-Thrush
White-starred Robin
Brown-chested Alethe
White-throated Robin
Thrush Nightingale
Common Nightingale
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Thrush/Common Nightingale
Semicollared Flycatcher
Little Rock-Thrush
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Moorland Chat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Northern Anteater-Chat
Northern Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Abyssinian Wheatear
wheatear sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Tacazze Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Red-tufted Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Northern Double-collared Sunbird
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
Gorgeous Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Black-bellied Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Cinnyris sp.
sunbird sp.
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Speckle-fronted Weaver
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Gray-capped Social-Weaver
Black-capped Social-Weaver
Red-headed Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Black-billed Weaver
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Golden-Weaver
Holub's Golden-Weaver
Golden Palm Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Speke's Weaver
Village Weaver
Chestnut Weaver
Brown-capped Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Cardinal Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Red-cowled Widowbird
Long-tailed Widowbird
Jackson's Widowbird
Grosbeak Weaver
Gray-headed Silverbill
Bronze Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
African Silverbill
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Green-backed Twinspot
Abyssinian Crimsonwing
Gray-headed Nigrita
nigrita sp.
Black-faced Waxbill
Black-cheeked Waxbill
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Kandt's Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Quailfinch
Cut-throat
Zebra Waxbill
Purple Grenadier
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
cordonbleu sp.
Red-headed Bluebill
Green-winged Pytilia
Orange-winged Pytilia
Red-throated Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
African Firefinch
firefinch sp.
estrildid finch sp.
Pin-tailed Whydah
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
Steel-blue Whydah
Straw-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
whydah sp.
indigobird sp.
Parasitic Weaver
House Sparrow
Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Parrot-billed Sparrow
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Chestnut Sparrow
Passer sp.
Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
Cape Wagtail
Mountain Wagtail
Gray Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
White Wagtail
wagtail sp.
African Pipit
Long-billed Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Tree Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
pipit sp.
Golden Pipit
Sharpe's Longclaw
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Pangani Longclaw
Rosy-throated Longclaw
longclaw sp.
Oriole Finch
African Citril
Reichenow's Seedeater
White-bellied Canary
Southern Grosbeak-Canary
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Thick-billed Seedeater
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Stripe-breasted Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Canary
Serinus sp.
Golden-breasted Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
passerine sp.

KEY:| = insufficient data | = rare to widespread

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