Birds in Zanzibar Island list covers the different bird species recorded in the Island thus far. An ardent birder can spot a number of birds in Zanzibar, and the below checklist should help you tick off a number of them.
Birds in Zanzibar Island include;
| 1. White-faced Whistling-Duck |
| 2. Fulvous Whistling-Duck |
| 3. White-backed Duck |
| 4. Egyptian Goose |
| 5. African Pygmy-Goose |
| 6. Red-billed Duck |
| 7. Helmeted Guineafowl |
| 8. Eastern Crested Guineafowl |
| 9. Crested Francolin |
| 10. Blue Quail |
| 11. Harlequin Quail |
| 12. Greater Flamingo |
| 13. Lesser Flamingo |
| 14. Little Grebe |
| 15. Rock Pigeon |
| 16. Delegorgue’s Pigeon |
| 17. Dusky Turtle-Dove |
| 18. Red-eyed Dove |
| 19. Ring-necked Dove |
| 20. Laughing Dove |
| 21. Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove |
| 22. Blue-spotted Wood-Dove |
| 23. Tambourine Dove |
| 24. Namaqua Dove |
| 25. African Green-Pigeon |
| 26. Fischer’s Turaco |
| 27. White-browed Coucal |
| 28. Green Malkoha |
| 29. Levaillant’s Cuckoo |
| 30. Pied Cuckoo |
| 31. Dideric Cuckoo |
| 32. Madagascar Cuckoo |
| 33. Common Cuckoo |
| 34. Square-tailed Nightjar |
| 35. Mottled Spinetail |
| 36. Bat-like Spinetail |
| 37. Common Swift |
| 38. Little Swift |
| 39. Horus Swift |
| 40. White-rumped Swift |
| 41. African Palm Swift |
| 42. Buff-spotted Flufftail |
| 43. Red-chested Flufftail |
| 44. African Crake |
| 45. Eurasian Moorhen |
| 46. Allen’s Gallinule |
| 47. African Swamphen |
| 48. Black Crake |
| 49. Water Thick-knee |
| 50. Black-winged Stilt |
| 51. Eurasian Oystercatcher |
| 52. Black-bellied Plover |
| 53. Pacific Golden-Plover |
| 54. Common Ringed Plover |
| 55. Three-banded Plover |
| 56. Little Ringed Plover |
| 57. Senegal Lapwing |
| 58. Wattled Lapwing |
| 59. Caspian Plover |
| 60. Tibetan Sand-Plover |
| 61. Greater Sand-Plover |
| 62. White-fronted Plover |
| 63. Greater Painted-Snipe |
| 64. Lesser Jacana |
| 65. African Jacana |
| 66. Whimbrel |
| 67. Eurasian Curlew |
| 68. Bar-tailed Godwit |
| 69. Black-tailed Godwit |
| 70. Great Snipe |
| 71. Red-necked Phalarope |
| 72. Terek Sandpiper |
| 73. Common Sandpiper |
| 74. Green Sandpiper |
| 75. Marsh Sandpiper |
| 76. Wood Sandpiper |
| 77. Common Redshank |
| 78. Common Greenshank |
| 79. Ruddy Turnstone |
| 80. Ruff |
| 81. Broad-billed Sandpiper |
| 82. Curlew Sandpiper |
| 83. Sanderling |
| 84. Little Stint |
| 85. Small Buttonquail |
| 86. Crab-Plover |
| 87. Pomarine Jaeger |
| 88. Black-headed Gull |
| 89. Gray-hooded Gull |
| 90. Sooty Gull |
| 91. Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| 92. African Skimmer |
| 93. Brown Noddy |
| 94. Lesser Noddy |
| 95. Sooty Tern |
| 96. Bridled Tern |
| 97. Little Tern |
| 98. Saunders’s Tern |
| 99. Gull-billed Tern |
| 100. Caspian Tern |
| 101. Whiskered Tern |
| 102. White-winged Tern |
| 103. Common Tern |
| 104. White-cheeked Tern |
| 105. Black-naped Tern |
| 106. Roseate Tern |
| 107. Sandwich Tern |
| 108. Lesser Crested Tern |
| 109. Great Crested Tern |
| 110. White-tailed Tropicbird |
| 111. Red-billed Tropicbird |
| 112. Wedge-tailed Shearwater |
| 113. Tropical Shearwater |
| 114. African Openbill |
| 115. African Woolly-necked Stork |
| 116. White Stork |
| 117. Yellow-billed Stork |
| 118. Lesser Frigatebird |
| 119. Great Frigatebird |
| 120. Cape Gannet |
| 121. Red-footed Booby |
| 122. Masked Booby |
| 123. African Darter |
| 124. Long-tailed Cormorant |
| 125. Great Cormorant |
| 126. Hamerkop |
| 127. Dwarf Bittern |
| 128. Little Bittern |
| 129. Black-crowned Night Heron |
| 130. Black Heron |
| 131. Little Egret |
| 132. Western Reef-Heron |
| 133. White-backed Night Heron |
| 134. Striated Heron |
| 135. Squacco Heron |
| 136. Malagasy Pond-Heron |
| 137. Western Cattle Egret |
| 138. Great Egret |
| 139. Yellow-billed Egret |
| 140. Gray Heron |
| 141. Purple Heron |
| 142. Black-headed Heron |
| 143. Goliath Heron |
| 144. Glossy Ibis |
| 145. African Sacred Ibis |
| 146. Hadada Ibis |
| 147. African Spoonbill |
| 148. Osprey |
| 149. Black-winged Kite |
| 150. African Harrier-Hawk |
| 151. Palm-nut Vulture |
| 152. European Honey-buzzard |
| 153. African Cuckoo-Hawk |
| 154. White-headed Vulture |
| 155. Rüppell’s Griffon |
| 156. Black-chested Snake-Eagle |
| 157. Banded Snake-Eagle |
| 158. Bat Hawk |
| 159. Lesser Spotted Eagle |
| 160. Booted Eagle |
| 161. Tawny Eagle |
| 162. Steppe Eagle |
| 163. Lizard Buzzard |
| 164. Gabar Goshawk |
| 165. Malagasy Harrier |
| 166. Pallid Harrier |
| 167. Montagu’s Harrier |
| 168. African Goshawk |
| 169. Shikra |
| 170. Little Sparrowhawk |
| 171. Black Goshawk |
| 172. Black Kite |
| 173. African Fish-Eagle |
| 174. Barn Owl |
| 175. Pemba Scops-Owl |
| 176. African Barred Owlet |
| 177. African Wood-Owl |
| 178. Speckled Mousebird |
| 179. Narina Trogon |
| 180. Eurasian Hoopoe |
| 181. Green Woodhoopoe |
| 182. Common Scimitarbill |
| 183. Abyssinian Scimitarbill |
| 184. Southern Ground-Hornbill |
| 185. Crowned Hornbill |
| 186. Malachite Kingfisher |
| 187. African Pygmy Kingfisher |
| 188. Gray-headed Kingfisher |
| 189. Mangrove Kingfisher |
| 190. Striped Kingfisher |
| 191. Pied Kingfisher |
| 192. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater |
| 193. White-throated Bee-eater |
| 194. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater |
| 195. Madagascar Bee-eater |
| 196. European Bee-eater |
| 197. Northern Carmine Bee-eater |
| 198. European Roller |
| 199. Lilac-breasted Roller |
| 200. Rufous-crowned Roller |
| 201. Broad-billed Roller |
| 202. Green Tinkerbird |
| 203. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird |
| 204. Red-fronted Tinkerbird |
| 205. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird |
| 206. White-headed Barbet |
| 207. Lesser Honeyguide |
| 208. Cardinal Woodpecker |
| 209. Green-backed Woodpecker |
| 210. Golden-tailed Woodpecker |
| 211. Lesser Kestrel |
| 212. Gray Kestrel |
| 213. Dickinson’s Kestrel |
| 214. Red-necked Falcon |
| 215. Amur Falcon |
| 216. Eleonora’s Falcon |
| 217. Sooty Falcon |
| 218. Eurasian Hobby |
| 219. African Hobby |
| 220. Peregrine Falcon |
| 221. Taita Falcon |
| 222. Fischer’s Lovebird |
| 223. Yellow-collared Lovebird |
| 224. Gray Parrot |
| 225. Brown-headed Parrot |
| 226. Black Cuckooshrike |
| 227. Eurasian Golden Oriole |
| 228. African Golden Oriole |
| 229. Black-throated Wattle-eye |
| 230. Short-tailed Batis |
| 231. Chinspot Batis |
| 232. Pale Batis |
| 233. Eastern Black-headed Batis |
| 234. Black-backed Puffback |
| 235. Black-crowned Tchagra |
| 236. Brown-crowned Tchagra |
| 237. Lühder’s Bushshrike |
| 238. Tropical Boubou |
| 239. Zanzibar Boubou |
| 240. Fülleborn’s Boubou |
| 241. Square-tailed Drongo |
| 242. Fork-tailed Drongo |
| 243. African Crested Flycatcher |
| 244. African Paradise-Flycatcher |
| 245. Red-backed Shrike |
| 246. Red-tailed Shrike |
| 247. Isabelline Shrike |
| 248. Lesser Gray Shrike |
| 249. Northern Fiscal |
| 250. House Crow |
| 251. Pied Crow |
| 252. Western Nicator |
| 253. Eastern Nicator |
| 254. Yellow-bellied Eremomela |
| 255. Greencap Eremomela |
| 256. Green-backed Camaroptera |
| 257. Bar-throated Apalis |
| 258. Yellow-breasted Apalis |
| 259. Tawny-flanked Prinia |
| 260. Rattling Cisticola |
| 261. Coastal Cisticola |
| 262. Zitting Cisticola |
| 263. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler |
| 264. Olive-tree Warbler |
| 265. Common Reed Warbler |
| 266. Lesser Swamp Warbler |
| 267. Great Reed Warbler |
| 268. River Warbler |
| 269. Little Rush Warbler |
| 270. Mascarene Martin |
| 271. Bank Swallow |
| 272. Rock Martin |
| 273. Barn Swallow |
| 274. Ethiopian Swallow |
| 275. Wire-tailed Swallow |
| 276. Western House-Martin |
| 277. Red-rumped Swallow |
| 278. Lesser Striped Swallow |
| 279. Mosque Swallow |
| 280. Sombre Greenbul |
| 281. Little Greenbul |
| 282. Common Bulbul |
| 283. Willow Warbler |
| 284. Southern Yellow White-eye |
| 285. Pemba White-eye |
| 286. Brown Illadopsis |
| 287. Tanzanian Illadopsis |
| 288. Red-billed Oxpecker |
| 289. Wattled Starling |
| 290. Violet-backed Starling |
| 291. Black-bellied Starling |
| 292. Rüppell’s Starling |
| 293. Lesser Blue-eared Starling |
| 294. Greater Blue-eared Starling |
| 295. Red-tailed Ant-Thrush |
| 296. Spotted Flycatcher |
| 297. African Gray Flycatcher |
| 298. Pale Flycatcher |
| 299. Ashy Flycatcher |
| 300. Bearded Scrub-Robin |
| 301. Miombo Scrub-Robin |
| 302. White-browed Robin-Chat |
| 303. Red-capped Robin-Chat |
| 304. East Coast Akalat |
| 305. Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush |
| 306. Northern Wheatear |
| 307. Capped Wheatear |
| 308. Pied Wheatear |
| 309. Plain-backed Sunbird |
| 310. Collared Sunbird |
| 311. Amani Sunbird |
| 312. Olive Sunbird |
| 313. Mouse-colored Sunbird |
| 314. Amethyst Sunbird |
| 315. Scarlet-chested Sunbird |
| 316. Hunter’s Sunbird |
| 317. Purple-banded Sunbird |
| 318. Pemba Sunbird |
| 319. Variable Sunbird |
| 320. Rufous-tailed Weaver |
| 321. Black-necked Weaver |
| 322. Spectacled Weaver |
| 323. African Golden-Weaver |
| 324. Holub’s Golden-Weaver |
| 325. Golden Palm Weaver |
| 326. Village Weaver |
| 327. Black-headed Weaver |
| 328. Forest Weaver |
| 329. Red-headed Quelea |
| 330. Red-billed Quelea |
| 331. Southern Red Bishop |
| 332. Zanzibar Red Bishop |
| 333. Black-winged Bishop |
| 334. Fan-tailed Widowbird |
| 335. Grosbeak Weaver |
| 336. Bronze Mannikin |
| 337. Magpie Mannikin |
| 338. Black-and-white Mannikin |
| 339. Java Sparrow |
| 340. Green-backed Twinspot |
| 341. Common Waxbill |
| 342. Zebra Waxbill |
| 343. Purple Grenadier |
| 344. Southern Cordonbleu |
| 345. Blue-capped Cordonbleu |
| 346. Green-winged Pytilia |
| 347. Orange-winged Pytilia |
| 348. Red-billed Firefinch |
| 349. Pin-tailed Whydah |
| 350. Village Indigobird |
| 351. Parasitic Weaver |
| 352. House Sparrow |
| 353. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow |
| 354. Southern Gray-headed Sparrow |
| 355. Western Yellow Wagtail |
| 356. African Pied Wagtail |
| 357. African Pipit |
| 358. Yellow-fronted Canary |
Birds in Zanzibar Island can be seen whilst on a Zanzibar Safaris tour. A 4 Days Zanzibar Beach Holiday is a short holiday that can have you traversing the island in search of the different bird species in Zanzibar Island. You can extend your bird search in Tanzania, further into the mainland, visiting different Tanzania parks and reserves. Birds in Tanzania are quite diverse; a bird watching safari shall be very rewarding!
