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850 SPECIES OF BIRDS IN ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia has one of the most stunning natural environments in Africa. Because of the size of the country, and the great variety of its landscapes and climate, Ethiopia represents all that Africa has to offer. The favorable climate   and the varied landscape made Ethiopia to be a home of 850 species of birds (over which 32 are endemics). Here under we have grouped these different species as common species, Ethiopian Endemic, Special and endangered species of birds in Ethiopia.

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

  1. Abyssinian Catbird
  2. Abyssinian Longclaw
  3. Abyssinian Siskin
  4. Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher
  5. Abyssinian Owl
  6. Abyssinian Woodpecker
  7. Ankobar Serin
  8. Banded Barbet
  9. Black-winged Lovebird
  10. Blue-winged Goose
  11. Brown-Sawwing
  12. Dark-headed Oriole
  13. Degodi Lark
  14. Erlanger's Lark
  15. Harwood's Francolin
  16. Lineated Pytilia
  1. Nechisar Nightjar
  2. Rouget's Rail
  3. Rueppell's Chat
  4. Ruspoli's Turaco
  5. Salvadori's Seedeater
  6. Spot-breasted Lapwing
  7. Stresemann's Bush-Crow
  8. Thick-billed Raven
  9. White-backed Black-Tit
  10. White-billed Starling
  11. White-collared Pigeon
  12. Wattled Ibis
  13. White-tailed Swallow
  14. White-winged Cliff-Chat
  15. Yellow-fronted Parrot
  16. 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

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