Checklist for Ethiopia

eBird Field Checklist

Ethiopia

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539 species (+23 other taxa) - Year-round, Current year

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Ostriches

Common Ostrich

Somali Ostrich

Waterfowl

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Blue-winged Goose

Egyptian Goose

Ruddy Shelduck

Spur-winged Goose

African Pygmy-Goose

Garganey

Blue-billed Teal

Northern Shoveler

African Black Duck

Yellow-billed Duck

Cape Teal

Red-billed Duck

Northern Pintail

Southern Pochard

Grouse, Quail, and Allies

Helmeted Guineafowl

Vulturine Guineafowl

Crested Francolin

Moorland Francolin

Chestnut-naped Spurfowl

Erckel's Spurfowl

Scaly Spurfowl

Harwood's Spurfowl

Yellow-necked Spurfowl

Flamingos

Greater Flamingo

Lesser Flamingo

Grebes

Little Grebe

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon

Speckled Pigeon

White-collared Pigeon

Rameron Pigeon

Lemon Dove

European Turtle-Dove

Dusky Turtle-Dove

African Collared-Dove

White-winged Collared-Dove

Mourning Collared-Dove

Red-eyed Dove

Ring-necked Dove

Laughing Dove

Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove

Blue-spotted Wood-Dove

Tambourine Dove

Turtur sp.

Namaqua Dove

Bruce's Green-Pigeon

Sandgrouse

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Yellow-throated Sandgrouse

Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

Bustards

Arabian Bustard

Kori Bustard

White-bellied Bustard

Little Brown Bustard

Buff-crested Bustard

Black-bellied Bustard

Turacos

White-cheeked Turaco

Prince Ruspoli's Turaco

Bare-faced Go-away-bird

White-bellied Go-away-bird

Eastern Plantain-eater

Cuckoos

Senegal Coucal

Blue-headed Coucal

White-browed Coucal

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Dideric Cuckoo

Klaas's Cuckoo

African Emerald Cuckoo

Black Cuckoo

Red-chested Cuckoo

Nightjars

Sombre Nightjar

Donaldson Smith's Nightjar

Montane Nightjar

Slender-tailed Nightjar

Swifts

Alpine Swift

Mottled Swift

Common Swift

Nyanza Swift

Little Swift

Horus Swift

White-rumped Swift

African Palm Swift

swift sp.

Rails, Gallinules, and Allies

Rouget's Rail

Eurasian Moorhen

Red-knobbed Coot

African Swamphen

Black Crake

Cranes

Black Crowned-Crane

Wattled Crane

Common Crane

Shorebirds

Senegal Thick-knee

Egyptian Plover

Black-winged Stilt

Pied Avocet

Common Ringed Plover

Three-banded Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Spur-winged Lapwing

Black-headed Lapwing

Black-winged Lapwing

Crowned Lapwing

Wattled Lapwing

Spot-breasted Lapwing

Greater Sand-Plover

Kittlitz's Plover

Kentish Plover

Lesser Jacana

African Jacana

Black-tailed Godwit

African Snipe

Common Snipe

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Common Redshank

Spotted Redshank

Common Greenshank

Ruff

Curlew Sandpiper

Temminck's Stint

Little Stint

Small Buttonquail

Three-banded Courser

Double-banded Courser

Black-winged Pratincole

Collared Pratincole

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Slender-billed Gull

Black-headed Gull

Gray-hooded Gull

Pallas's Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Gull-billed Tern

Whiskered Tern

White-winged Tern

Storks

African Openbill

Black Stork

Abdim's Stork

African Woolly-necked Stork

White Stork

Saddle-billed Stork

Marabou Stork

Yellow-billed Stork

Cormorants and Anhingas

African Darter

Long-tailed Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Pelicans

Great White Pelican

Pink-backed Pelican

pelican sp.

Shoebill and Hammerkop

Hamerkop

Herons, Ibis, and Allies

Little Bittern

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black Heron

Little Egret

White-backed Night Heron

Striated Heron

Squacco Heron

Western Cattle Egret

Great Egret

Yellow-billed Egret

Great/Yellow-billed Egret

Gray Heron

Purple Heron

Black-headed Heron

Goliath Heron

white egret sp.

Glossy Ibis

African Sacred Ibis

Hadada Ibis

Wattled Ibis

African Spoonbill

Vultures, Hawks, and Allies

Secretarybird

Osprey

Black-winged Kite

Scissor-tailed Kite

African Harrier-Hawk

Bearded Vulture

Egyptian Vulture

White-headed Vulture

Lappet-faced Vulture

Hooded Vulture

White-backed Vulture

Rüppell's Griffon

White-backed Vulture/Rüppell's Griffon

old world vulture sp.

Bateleur

Short-toed Snake-Eagle

Black-chested Snake-Eagle

Brown Snake-Eagle

Martial Eagle

Long-crested Eagle

Lesser Spotted Eagle

Greater Spotted Eagle

Wahlberg's Eagle

Booted Eagle

Ayres's Hawk-Eagle

Tawny Eagle

Steppe Eagle

Verreaux's Eagle

African Hawk-Eagle

Aquila sp.

Dark Chanting-Goshawk

Eastern Chanting-Goshawk

Gabar Goshawk

Western Marsh Harrier

Pallid Harrier

Montagu's Harrier

African Goshawk

Shikra

Little Sparrowhawk

Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk

Black Goshawk

Accipiter sp.

Black Kite

African Fish-Eagle

Common Buzzard

Mountain Buzzard

Long-legged Buzzard

Augur Buzzard

Owls

African Scops-Owl

Grayish Eagle-Owl

Cape Eagle-Owl

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl

Pearl-spotted Owlet

African Wood-Owl

Abyssinian Owl

Mousebirds

Speckled Mousebird

Blue-naped Mousebird

mousebird sp.

Trogons and Quetzals

Narina Trogon

Hoopoes

Eurasian Hoopoe

Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills

Green Woodhoopoe

Black-billed Woodhoopoe

Black Scimitarbill

Abyssinian Scimitarbill

Hornbills

Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

Hemprich's Hornbill

African Gray Hornbill

Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill

Von der Decken's Hornbill

Northern Red-billed Hornbill

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill

Kingfishers

Malachite Kingfisher

African Pygmy Kingfisher

Gray-headed Kingfisher

Woodland Kingfisher

Striped Kingfisher

Giant Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher

Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies

Little Bee-eater

Ethiopian Bee-eater

White-throated Bee-eater

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Madagascar Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

Northern Carmine Bee-eater

bee-eater sp.

European Roller

Abyssinian Roller

Lilac-breasted Roller

Rufous-crowned Roller

roller sp.

Broad-billed Roller

Barbets and Toucans

Red-and-yellow Barbet

Yellow-breasted Barbet

D'Arnaud's Barbet

Red-fronted Tinkerbird

Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

Red-fronted Barbet

Black-throated Barbet

Banded Barbet

Black-billed Barbet

Double-toothed Barbet

Honeyguides

Green-backed Honeyguide

Lesser Honeyguide

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

Greater Honeyguide

Woodpeckers

Rufous-necked Wryneck

Bearded Woodpecker

Abyssinian Woodpecker

Cardinal Woodpecker

Mountain Gray Woodpecker

Nubian Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

Pygmy Falcon

Eurasian Kestrel

Fox Kestrel

Gray Kestrel

African Hobby

Lanner Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

falcon sp.

diurnal raptor sp.

Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies

Black-winged Lovebird

Red-bellied Parrot

Yellow-fronted Parrot

Cuckooshrikes

Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

Old World Orioles

Ethiopian Black-headed Oriole

African Black-headed Oriole

Wattle-eyes and Batises

Brown-throated Wattle-eye

Gray-headed Batis

Western Black-headed Batis

Pygmy Batis

batis sp.

Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies

White Helmetshrike

Bushshrikes and Allies

Brubru

Northern Puffback

Black-crowned Tchagra

Three-streaked Tchagra

Red-naped Bushshrike

Ethiopian Boubou

Black-headed Gonolek

Slate-colored Boubou

Rosy-patched Bushshrike

Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike

Gray-headed Bushshrike

Drongos

Fork-tailed Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

African Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

Red-backed Shrike

Red-tailed Shrike

Isabelline Shrike

Great Gray Shrike

Gray-backed Fiscal

Somali Fiscal

Northern Fiscal

Masked Shrike

Woodchat Shrike

White-rumped Shrike

Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens

Stresemann's Bush-Crow

Red-billed Chough

Cape Crow

Pied Crow

Somali Crow

Fan-tailed Raven

Thick-billed Raven

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

White-shouldered Black-Tit

White-winged Black-Tit

Somali Tit

White-backed Black-Tit

Penduline-Tits and Verdin

Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit

Larks

Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark

Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark

Fawn-colored Lark

Singing Bushlark

Gillett's Lark

Blanford's Lark

Greater Short-toed Lark

Thekla's Lark

Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies

Northern Crombec

Red-faced Crombec

Somali Crombec

Cisticolas and Allies

Yellow-bellied Eremomela

Gray Wren-Warbler

Green-backed Camaroptera

Buff-bellied Warbler

Yellow-breasted Apalis

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Pale Prinia

Red-fronted Prinia

Red-faced Cisticola

Singing Cisticola

Boran Cisticola

Rattling Cisticola

Ethiopian Cisticola

Stout Cisticola

Croaking Cisticola

Tiny Cisticola

Zitting Cisticola

Pectoral-patch Cisticola

cisticola sp.

Reed Warblers and Allies

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

African Yellow-Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Common Reed Warbler

Lesser Swamp Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler

Little Rush Warbler

Martins and Swallows

Black Sawwing

Banded Martin

Plain Martin

Bank Swallow

Rock Martin

White-tailed Swallow

Barn Swallow

Ethiopian Swallow

Wire-tailed Swallow

Western House-Martin

Red-rumped Swallow

Lesser Striped Swallow

Mosque Swallow

swallow sp.

Bulbuls

Northern Brownbul

Common Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

Willow Warbler

Common Chiffchaff

Willow Warbler/Common Chiffchaff

Brown Woodland-Warbler

Sylviid Warblers

Eurasian Blackcap

Garden Warbler

Abyssinian Catbird

African Hill Babbler

Banded Parisoma

Lesser Whitethroat

Brown Parisoma

Menetries's Warbler

Greater Whitethroat

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

Pale White-eye

Abyssinian White-eye

Heuglin's White-eye

white-eye sp.

Laughingthrushes and Allies

Rufous Chatterer

Brown Babbler

White-rumped Babbler

Treecreepers

African Spotted Creeper

Oxpeckers

Red-billed Oxpecker

Starlings and Mynas

Wattled Starling

Violet-backed Starling

Slender-billed Starling

Red-winged Starling

White-billed Starling

Bristle-crowned Starling

Shelley's Starling

Rüppell's Starling

Golden-breasted Starling

Superb Starling

White-crowned Starling

Lesser Blue-eared Starling

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Thrushes

Abyssinian Ground-Thrush

Ethiopian Thrush

Abyssinian Thrush

African Bare-eyed Thrush

African Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

African Dusky Flycatcher

Gambaga Flycatcher

African Gray Flycatcher

Pale Flycatcher

Northern Black-Flycatcher

Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher

Black Scrub-Robin

Red-backed Scrub-Robin

Rüppell's Robin-Chat

White-browed Robin-Chat

Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat

White-crowned Robin-Chat

Spotted Morning-Thrush

Common Redstart

Little Rock-Thrush

Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush

Blue Rock-Thrush

White-winged Cliff-Chat

Siberian Stonechat

African Stonechat

Moorland Chat

Mocking Cliff-Chat

Rüppell's Chat

Northern Wheatear

Rusty-breasted Wheatear

Isabelline Wheatear

Pied Wheatear

White-fronted Black-Chat

Blackstart

Familiar Chat

Sombre Rock Chat

Abyssinian Wheatear

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird

Collared Sunbird

Nile Valley Sunbird

Olive Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Tacazze Sunbird

Beautiful Sunbird

Marico Sunbird

Shining Sunbird

Variable Sunbird

Copper Sunbird

sunbird sp.

Weavers and Allies

Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver

White-headed Buffalo-Weaver

White-browed Sparrow-Weaver

Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

Gray-headed Social-Weaver

Black-capped Social-Weaver

Red-headed Weaver

Baglafecht Weaver

Little Weaver

Spectacled Weaver

Northern Masked-Weaver

Lesser Masked-Weaver

Vitelline Masked-Weaver

Rüppell's Weaver

Speke's Weaver

Village Weaver

Chestnut Weaver

Ploceus sp.

Red-headed Quelea

Red-billed Quelea

Northern Red Bishop

Yellow-crowned Bishop

Yellow Bishop

Red-cowled Widowbird

Grosbeak Weaver

Estrildids

Gray-headed Silverbill

Bronze Mannikin

Black-and-white Mannikin

African Silverbill

Yellow-bellied Waxbill

Green-backed Twinspot

Abyssinian Crimsonwing

Common Waxbill

Crimson-rumped Waxbill

Quailfinch

Cut-throat

Zebra Waxbill

Purple Grenadier

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

Blue-capped Cordonbleu

Green-winged Pytilia

Red-billed Pytilia

Red-billed Firefinch

African Firefinch

Indigobirds and Whydahs

Pin-tailed Whydah

Eastern Paradise-Whydah

Steel-blue Whydah

Straw-tailed Whydah

Village Indigobird

Parasitic Weaver

Old World Sparrows

Shelley's Rufous Sparrow

Northern Gray-headed Sparrow

Swainson's Sparrow

Parrot-billed Sparrow

Chestnut Sparrow

Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

Mountain Wagtail

Gray Wagtail

Western Yellow Wagtail

African Pied Wagtail

White Wagtail

African Pipit

Long-billed Pipit

Tawny Pipit

Tree Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

pipit sp.

Abyssinian Longclaw

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

White-rumped Seedeater

Yellow-fronted Canary

African Citril

Reichenow's Seedeater

Yellow-rumped Serin

White-bellied Canary

Northern Grosbeak-Canary

Streaky Seedeater

Reichard's Seedeater

Brown-rumped Seedeater

Yellow-crowned Canary

Ethiopian Siskin

Old World Buntings

Somali Bunting

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Others

passerine sp.