COMMON
SPECIES OF BIRDS IN ETHIOPIA
The following list of birds
can be frequently seen while birding in Ethiopia
Great Cormorant, Egyptian
Goose, Cattle Egret, Hamerkop, Wattled Ibis, Sacred Ibis, Marabou Stork, Black
Kite, Hooded Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Dark Chanting-Goshawk, Eastern Chanting-Goshawk,
Augur Buzzard, Eurasian Kestrel, Helmeted Guineafowl, Yellow-necked Spurfowl,
Buff-crested Bustard, Common Sandpiper, Spur-winged Plover, Speckled Pigeon, Dusky
Turtle-Dove, Laughing Dove, African Mourning Dove, Ring-necked Dove, Red‑eyed
Dove, Namaqua Dove, Speckled Mousebird, White-bellied Go-away-bird, European Bee-eater,
Lilac-breasted Roller, Red‑billed Hornbill, Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill,
African Paradise-Flycatcher, Fork‑tailed Drongo, Cape Crow, Pied Crow, Brown-necked
Raven, Fan‑tailed Raven, Common Fiscal, White-rumped Shrike, Greater &
Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling, Superb Starling, Pied Wheatear, Isabelline
Wheatear, Sand Martin, Rock Martin, Barn Swallow, Common Bulbul, Broad-ringed
White-eye, Grey‑backed Camaroptera, Willow Warbler, Swainson’s Sparrow,
Red-cheeked Cordonblue, Yellow Wagtail, Red-billed & White-headed Buffalo-Weaver,
White‑browed Sparrow‑Weaver, Village Weaver, Red‑billed Quelea.
ETHIOPIAN
ENDEMIC BIRDS
- Abyssinian Catbird
- Abyssinian Longclaw
- Abyssinian
Siskin
- Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher
- Abyssinian Owl
- Abyssinian
Woodpecker
- Ankobar Serin
- Banded Barbet
- Black-winged
Lovebird
- Blue-winged Goose
- Brown-Sawwing
- Dark-headed
Oriole
- Degodi Lark
- Erlanger's Lark
- Harwood's Francolin
- Lineated Pytilia
| - Nechisar Nightjar
- Rouget's Rail
- Rueppell's Chat
- Ruspoli's Turaco
- Salvadori's
Seedeater
- Spot-breasted Lapwing
- Stresemann's Bush-Crow
- Thick-billed
Raven
- White-backed Black-Tit
- White-billed Starling
- White-collared
Pigeon
- Wattled Ibis
- White-tailed Swallow
- White-winged
Cliff-Chat
- Yellow-fronted Parrot
- Yellow-throated Seedeater
|
SPECIAL
AND SPECTACULAR BIRDS IN ETHIOPIA
Abyssinian Grosbeak-Canary Abyssinian Lark
Abyssinian Roller Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher Abyssinian Waxbill
African Pygmy-Goose Arabian Bustard Black-billed Woodhoopoe
Black-throated Firefinch Black-winged Lapwing Blanford's
Lark Blue Sawwing Blue-breasted Bee-eater Boran Cisticola
Broad-winged White-eye Brown-tailed Apalis Brown-rumped Seed-eater
Chestnut-naped Francolin Collared Lark Cretzchmar's Babbler
Donaldson's-Smith Erkel's Francolin Friedmann's Lark
Gillett's Lark Hueglin's Bustard
| Little Brown
Bustard Masked Lark Moorland Chat Moorland Francolin
Red-naped Bushshrike Salvadori's Weaver Scaly Babbler Scaly
Chatterer Sidamo Lark Short-billed Crombec Somali Bee-eater
Somali Crombec Somali Sparrow Somali Wheatear Sombre
Chat Sparrow-Weaver Swainson's Sparrow Thick-billed Raven
White-backed Tit White-billed Starling White-cheeked Turaco
White-collared Pigeon White-winged Collared-Dove White-rumped
Babbler Yellow-throated Sandgrouse |
ENDANGERED
BIRDS IN ETHIOPIA
(endemics are printed in bold italic)
Ankober
Serin Archer's Lark Degodi Lark
Harwood's Francolin Northern Bald
Ibis Red Sea Swallow Ruspoli's Turaco
Savadori's Serin Sidamo Lark Stresmann's Bush-Crow
Taita Falcon | Wattled Crane White-eyed Gull White-tailed
Swallow White-winged Flufftail Yellow-throated
Seedeater Corn Crake Ferruginous Pochard Greater
Spotted Eagle Imperial Eagle Lesser Kestrel Sociable Lapwing |