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Bird Observations

Date Range:
Jan-Dec, 1900-2025

Ngorongoro Conservation Area--Ngorongoro Crater

Updated ~37 hr(s) ago.

631 species (+88 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
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
African Black Duck
Yellow-billed Duck
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Cape Teal
Red-billed Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
dabbling duck sp.
Southern Pochard
Maccoa Duck
Helmeted Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl
Eastern Crested Guineafowl
Crested Francolin
Coqui Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Common Quail
Harlequin Quail
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Hildebrandt's Spurfowl
Scaly Spurfowl
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Gray-breasted Spurfowl
Red-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
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Turtur sp.
Namaqua Dove
African Green-Pigeon
pigeon/dove sp.
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
Black-faced Sandgrouse
sandgrouse sp.
Kori Bustard
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White-bellied Bustard
Buff-crested Bustard
Black-bellied Bustard
Hartlaub's Bustard
bustard sp.
Bare-faced Go-away-bird
White-bellied Go-away-bird
Purple-crested Turaco
Schalow's Turaco
Hartlaub's Turaco
turaco sp.
White-browed Coucal
Black Coucal
coucal sp.
Green Malkoha
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Eurasian Nightjar
Sombre Nightjar
Donaldson Smith's Nightjar
Montane Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Slender-tailed Nightjar
nightjar sp.
Mottled Spinetail
Scarce Swift
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
Nyanza Swift
African Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
Apus/Tachymarptis sp.
African Palm Swift
large swift sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
small swift sp.
swift sp.
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
African Rail
African Crake
Lesser Moorhen
Eurasian Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
Allen's Gallinule
African Swamphen
Black Crake
Baillon's Crake
rail/crake sp.
Gray Crowned-Crane
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Spotted Thick-knee
Water Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Long-toed Lapwing
Blacksmith Lapwing
Spur-winged Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
Black-winged Lapwing
Crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
lapwing sp.
Caspian Plover
Tibetan Sand-Plover
Greater Sand-Plover
Kittlitz's Plover
Chestnut-banded Plover
plover sp.
Greater Painted-Snipe
African Jacana
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
African Snipe
Common Snipe
snipe sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Common Greenshank
Tringa sp.
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Little Stint
peep sp.
Small Buttonquail
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Double-banded Courser
Bronze-winged Courser
Three-banded Courser
Temminck's Courser
Collared Pratincole
Black-winged Pratincole
shorebird sp.
Black-headed Gull
Gray-hooded Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
gull sp.
African Skimmer
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Chlidonias sp.
tern sp.
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
flamingo sp.
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Eared Grebe
African Openbill
Black Stork
Abdim's Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Yellow-billed Stork
African Darter
Reed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
African Spoonbill
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
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
pond-heron sp.
Western Cattle-Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Ardea sp.
white egret sp.
Hamerkop
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
pelican sp.
Secretarybird
Osprey
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
Bearded Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
African Cuckoo-Hawk
European Honey-buzzard
White-headed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Hooded Vulture
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon
White-backed Vulture/Rüppell's Griffon
Gyps sp.
old world vulture sp.
Bateleur
Western Banded Snake-Eagle
Black-chested Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
snake-eagle sp.
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
Booted Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Imperial Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Verreaux's Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Aquila sp.
Gabar Goshawk
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
Lizard Buzzard
African Goshawk
Little Sparrowhawk
Shikra
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Accipitrine hawk sp. (former Accipiter sp.)
Western Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
harrier sp.
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Grasshopper Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
Mountain Buzzard
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Common Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo sp.
hawk sp.
eagle sp.
Western Barn Owl
African Scops-Owl
Southern White-faced Owl
Spotted Eagle-Owl
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
African Wood-Owl
Marsh Owl
Speckled Mousebird
White-headed Mousebird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Blue-naped Mousebird
mousebird sp.
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
Eurasian Hoopoe
Green Woodhoopoe
White-headed Woodhoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Abyssinian Scimitarbill
Southern Ground-Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Von der Decken's Hornbill
Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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
bee-eater sp.
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
kingfisher sp.
European Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Purple Roller
roller sp.
Broad-billed Roller
Red-and-yellow Barbet
D'Arnaud's Barbet
White-eared Barbet
Moustached Tinkerbird
Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
tinkerbird sp.
Red-fronted Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
Black-throated Barbet
White-headed Barbet
Brown-breasted Barbet
african barbet sp.
Green-backed Honeybird
Brown-backed Honeybird
Pallid Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
honeyguide sp.
Bearded Woodpecker
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
Mountain Gray Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
Pygmy Falcon
Lesser Kestrel
Eurasian Kestrel
Lesser/Eurasian Kestrel
Greater Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Red-necked Falcon
Amur Falcon
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Sooty Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
falcon sp.
diurnal raptor sp.
Fischer's Lovebird
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Fischer's x Yellow-collared Lovebird (hybrid)
Red-fronted Parrot
Meyer's Parrot
Red-bellied Parrot
African Broadbill
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-throated Wattle-eye
Chinspot Batis
batis sp.
White-crested Helmetshrike
Retz's Helmetshrike
Brubru
Black-backed Puffback
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
tchagra sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Tropical Boubou
Slate-colored Boubou
Rosy-patched Bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Black-fronted Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Fork-tailed Drongo
African Crested Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Magpie Shrike
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
Cape Crow
Pied Crow
White-necked Raven
crow/raven sp.
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
White-bellied Tit
Red-throated Tit
African Penduline-Tit
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Fischer's Sparrow-Lark
Pink-breasted Lark
Fawn-colored Lark
White-tailed Lark
Singing Bushlark
Mirafra sp.
Flappet Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Sentinel Lark
Rufous-naped/Sentinel Lark
Red-winged Lark
Short-tailed Lark
Red-capped Lark
Somali Short-toed Lark
lark sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Eastern Nicator
Northern Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Green-backed Camaroptera
Buff-bellied Warbler
Bar-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Gray Apalis
Brown-headed Apalis
apalis sp.
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Red-fronted Prinia
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray-capped Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Trilling Cisticola
Hunter's Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Lynes's Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Stout Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Tabora Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Tiny Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Desert Cisticola
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Pectoral-patch Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
African Yellow-Warbler
Mountain Yellow-Warbler
Olive-tree Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Hippolais sp.
Sedge Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Acrocephalus sp.
Fan-tailed Grassbird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Evergreen-forest Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
Little Rush Warbler
Highland Rush Warbler
White-headed Sawwing
Black Sawwing
Gray-rumped Swallow
Banded Martin
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Red-throated Crag-Martin
Barn Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
African Red-rumped Swallow
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Lesser Striped Swallow
Mosque Swallow
swallow sp.
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Black-headed Mountain Greenbul
Northern Brownbul
Cabanis's Greenbul
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Microtarsus/Rubigula/Pycnonotus sp.
Willow Warbler
Brown Woodland-Warbler
Phylloscopus sp.
Eurasian Blackcap
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Garden Warbler
African Hill Babbler
Banded Parisoma
Brown Parisoma
Greater Whitethroat
Pale White-eye
Mbulu White-eye
Kilimanjaro White-eye
Southern Yellow White-eye
Zosterops sp.
Rufous Chatterer
Scaly Chatterer
Arrow-marked Babbler
Black-lored Babbler
Northern Pied-Babbler
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Red-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed/Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Wattled Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Red-winged Starling
Waller's Starling
Sharpe's Starling
Abbott's Starling
Hildebrandt's Starling
Rüppell's Starling
Ashy Starling
Superb Starling
Fischer's Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Lamprotornis sp.
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
African Bare-eyed Thrush
Abyssinian Thrush
African Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa sp.
African Gray Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Silverbird
Southern Black-Flycatcher
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
Bearded Scrub-Robin
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White-browed Scrub-Robin
Cape Robin-Chat
Rüppell's Robin-Chat
White-browed Robin-Chat
Red-capped Robin-Chat
robin-chat sp.
Collared Palm-Thrush
Spotted Morning-Thrush
White-starred Robin
White-throated Robin
Thrush Nightingale
Little Rock-Thrush
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Moorland Chat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Northern Anteater-Chat
Northern Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Familiar Chat
Abyssinian Wheatear
wheatear sp.
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Tacazze Sunbird
Bronze Sunbird
Malachite Sunbird
Golden-winged Sunbird
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
Gorgeous Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
sunbird sp.
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Speckle-fronted Weaver
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray-capped Social-Weaver
Black-capped Social-Weaver
Red-headed Weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Little Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
African Golden-Weaver
Holub's Golden-Weaver
Taveta Golden-Weaver
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Speke's Weaver
Village Weaver
Golden-backed Weaver
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Chestnut Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Cardinal Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Southern Red Bishop
Black-winged Bishop
Black Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow Bishop
White-winged Widowbird
Red-cowled Widowbird
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Jackson's Widowbird
Euplectes sp.
Grosbeak Weaver
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Gray-headed Silverbill
Bronze Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
African Silverbill
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Abyssinian Crimsonwing
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Gray-headed Nigrita
Black-faced Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
waxbill sp.
Quailfinch
Cut-throat
Zebra Waxbill
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Purple Grenadier
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
cordonbleu sp.
Green-winged Pytilia
Red-throated Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Jameson's Firefinch
firefinch sp.
Pin-tailed Whydah
Eastern Paradise-Whydah
Steel-blue Whydah
Straw-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Dusky Indigobird
Vidua sp.
Parasitic Weaver
House Sparrow
Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Parrot-billed Sparrow
Swahili Sparrow
Chestnut Sparrow
Passer sp.
Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
Mountain Wagtail
Gray Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
White Wagtail
wagtail sp.
African Pipit
Long-billed Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Striped Pipit
Tree Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Bush Pipit
pipit sp.
Golden Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Pangani Longclaw
Rosy-throated Longclaw
longclaw sp.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Oriole Finch
Yellow-fronted Canary
Southern Citril
Reichenow's Seedeater
White-bellied Canary
Southern Grosbeak-Canary
Brimstone Canary
Streaky Seedeater
Thick-billed Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Canary
Golden-breasted Bunting
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
passerine sp.
bird sp.

KEY:| = insufficient data | = rare to widespread

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