Birds in Zanzibar | Zanzibar Safaris Tours

Birds in Zanzibar : The Archipelago of Zanzibar is not only a great beach destination but also a great birding destination, the Archipelago is situated among the turquoise waters of Indian Ocean about 30 kilometers (19 miles) off the Northeast coast of Tanzania. Continue reading this article to know more about the birds in Zanzibar.

Zanzibar is home to over 338 bird species recorded including 11 threatened species and 7 introduced species and below are the birds in Zanzibar.

ANSERIFORMES (Anatidae)

•White-faced Whistling-Duck

•Fulvous Whistling-Duck

•White-backed Duck

•Egyptian Goose

•African Pygmy-Goose

• Red-billed Duck

GALLIFORMES (Numididae)

•Helmeted Guineafowl

•Crested Guineafowl

GALLIFORMES (Phasianidae)

•Blue Quail

•Harlequin Quail

•Crested Francolin

•Extirpated

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae

•Greater Flamingo

•Lesser Flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

•Little Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES (Columbidae)

•Rock Pigeon

•Delegorgue’s Pigeon

•Dusky Turtle-Dove

•Red-eyed Dove

•Ring-necked Dove

•Laughing Dove

•Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove

•Blue-spotted Wood-Dove

•Tambourine Dove

•Namaqua Dove

•African Green-Pigeon

MUSOPHAGIFORMES (Musophagidae)

•Fischer’s Turaco

CUCULIFORMES (Cuculidae)

•White-browed Coucal

•Green Malkoha

•Levaillant’s Cuckoo

•Pied Cuckoo

•Dideric Cuckoo

•Madagascar Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES (Caprimulgidae)

•Square-tailed Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES (Apodidae)

•Mottled Spinetail

•Bat-like Spinetail

•Common Swift

•Little Swift

•Horus Swift

•White-rumped Swift

•African Palm-Swift

GRUIFORMES (Sarothruridae)

•Buff-spotted Flufftail

•Red-chested Flufftail

GRUIFORMES (Rallidae)

•Eurasian Moorhen

•Allen’s Gallinule

•African Swamphen

•Black Crake

CHARADRIIFORMES (Burhinidae)

•Water Thick-knee

CHARADRIIFORMES (Recurvirostridae)

•Black-winged Stilt

CHARADRIIFORMES (Haematopodidae)

•Eurasian Oystercatcher

•Near-threatened

CHARADRIIFORMES (Charadriidae)

•Black-bellied Plover

•Pacific Golden-Plover

•Senegal Lapwing

•Wattled Lapwing

•Lesser Sand-Plover

•Greater Sand-Plover

•Caspian Plover

•Common Ringed Plover

•Little Ringed Plover

•White-fronted Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES (Rostratulidae)

•Greater Painted-Snipe

CHARADRIIFORMES (Jacanidae)

•African Jacana

CHARADRIIFORMES (Scolopacidae)

•Whimbrel

•Eurasian Curlew

•Bar-tailed Godwit

•Black-tailed Godwit

•Ruddy Turnstone

•Ruff

•Broad-billed Sandpiper

• Curlew Sandpiper

•Sanderling

•Little Stint

•Great Snipe

•Terek Sandpiper

•Red-necked Phalarope

•Common Sandpiper

•Green Sandpiper

•Common Greenshank

•Marsh Sandpiper

•Wood Sandpiper

•Common Redshank

CHARADRIIFORMES (Turnicidae)

•Small Buttonquail

CHARADRIIFORMES (Dromadidae)

•Crab-Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES (Stercorariidae)

•Pomarine Jaeger

•Rare/Accidental

CHARADRIIFORMES (Laridae)

•Gray-hooded Gull

•Black-headed Gull

•Sooty Gull

•Lesser Black-backed Gull

•Brown Noddy

•Lesser Noddy

•Sooty Tern

•Bridled Tern

•Little Tern

•Saunders’s Tern

•Gull-billed Tern

•Caspian Tern

•White-winged Tern

•Whiskered Tern

•Roseate Tern

•Black-naped Tern

•Common Tern

•White-cheeked Tern

•Sandwich Tern

•Lesser Crested Tern

•African Skimmer

PHAETHONTIFORMES (Phaethontidae)

•White-tailed Tropicbird

PROCELLARIIFORMES (Procellariidae)

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater

•Tropical Shearwater

CICONIIFORMES (Ciconiidae)

•African Openbill

•Woolly-necked Stork

•White Stork

•Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES (Fregatidae)

•Lesser Frigatebird

•Rare/Accidental

•Great Frigatebird

•Rare/Accidental

SULIFORMES (Sulidae)

•Masked Booby

•Red-footed Booby

•Rare/Accidental

•Cape Gannet

SULIFORMES (Anhingidae)

•African Darter

SULIFORMES (Phalacrocoracidae)

•Long-tailed Cormorant

•Great Cormorant

PELECANIFORMES (Scopidae)

• Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES (Ardeidae)

•Little Bittern

•Dwarf Bittern

•Gray Heron

•Black-headed Heron

•Goliath Heron

•Purple Heron

•Great Egret

•Intermediate Egret

•Little Egret

•Western Reef-Heron

•Black Heron

•Cattle Egret

•Squacco Heron

•Madagascar Pond-Heron

•Striated Heron

•Black-crowned Night-Heron

•White-backed Night-Heron

PELECANIFORMES (Threskiornithidae)

•Glossy Ibis

•African Sacred Ibis

•Hadada Ibis

ACCIPITRIFORMES (Pandionidae)

•Osprey

ACCIPITRIFORMES (Accipitridae)

•Black-winged Kite

•African Harrier-Hawk

•Palm-nut Vulture

•European Honey-buzzard

•African Cuckoo-Hawk

•White-headed Vulture

•Rüppell’s Griffon

•Black-chested Snake-Eagle

•Banded Snake-Eagle

•Bat Hawk

•Lesser Spotted Eagle

•Booted Eagle

•Tawny Eagle

•Steppe Eagle

•Lizard Buzzard

•Gabar Goshawk

•Montagu’s Harrier

•African Goshawk

•Shikra

•Little Sparrowhawk

•Black Goshawk

•Black Kite

•African Fish-Eagle

STRIGIFORMES (Tytonidae)

•Barn Owl

STRIGIFORMES (Strigidae)

•Pemba Scops-Owl

•Vulnerable

•African Barred Owlet

•African Wood-Owl

COLIIFORMES (Coliidae)

•Speckled Mousebird

TROGONIFORMES (Trogonidae)

• Narina Trogon

BUCEROTIFORMES (Phoeniculidae)

•Green Woodhoopoe

•Common Scimitarbill

•Abyssinian Scimitarbill

BUCEROTIFORMES (Bucorvidae)

•Southern Ground-Hornbill

BUCEROTIFORMES (Bucerotidae)

•Crowned Hornbill

CORACIIFORMES (Alcedinidae)

•Malachite Kingfisher

•African Pygmy-Kingfisher

•Gray-headed Kingfisher

•Mangrove Kingfisher

•Striped Kingfisher

•Pied Kingfisher

CORACIIFORMES (Meropidae)

•Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

•White-throated Bee-eater

•Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

•Madagascar Bee-eater

•European Bee-eater

CORACIIFORMES (Coraciidae)

•European Roller

•Lilac-breasted Roller

•Rufous-crowned Roller

•Broad-billed Roller

PICIFORMES (Lybiidae)

•Green Tinkerbird

•Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

•Red-fronted Tinkerbird

•Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

•White-headed Barbet

PICIFORMES (Indicatoridae)

•Lesser Honeyguide

PICIFORMES (Picidae)

•Cardinal Woodpecker

•Green-backed Woodpecker

•Golden-tailed Woodpecker

FALCONIFORMES (Falconidae)

•Gray Kestrel

•Dickinson’s Kestrel

•Red-necked Falcon

•Amur Falcon

•Eleonora’s Falcon

•Eurasian Hobby

•African Hobby

•Peregrine Falcon

•Taita Falcon

PSITTACIFORMES (Psittaculidae)

•Fischer’s Lovebird

•Yellow-collared Lovebird

PSITTACIFORMES (Psittacidae)

•Gray Parrot

•Brown-headed Parrot

•Black Cuckooshrike

PASSERIFORMES (Oriolidae)

•Eurasian Golden Oriole

•African Golden Oriole

PASSERIFORMES (Platysteiridae)

•Black-throated Wattle-eye

•Chinspot Batis

•Pale Batis

•Eastern Black-headed Batis

PASSERIFORMES (Malaconotidae)

•Black-backed Puffback

•Black-crowned Tchagra

•Brown-crowned Tchagra

•Lühder’s Bushshrike

•Tropical Boubou

•Zanzibar Boubou

•Fülleborn’s Boubou

PASSERIFORMES (Dicrurida)

•Common Square-tailed Drongo

•Fork-tailed Drongo

PASSERIFORMES (Monarchidae)

•African Crested-Flycatcher

•African Paradise-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES (Laniidae)

•Red-backed Shrike

•Red-tailed Shrike

•Isabelline Shrike

PASSERIFORMES (Corvidae)

•House Crow

•Pied Crow

PASSERIFORMES (Nicatoridae)

•Western Nicator

•Eastern Nicator

PASSERIFORMES (Cisticolidae)

•Yellow-bellied Eremomela

•Greencap Eremomela

•Green-backed Camaroptera

•Bar-throated Apalis

•Yellow-breasted Apalis

•Tawny-flanked Prinia

•Rattling Cisticola

•Coastal Cisticola

•Zitting Cisticola

PASSERIFORMES (Acrocephalidae)

•Olive-tree Warbler

•Eurasian Reed Warbler

•African Reed Warbler

•Lesser Swamp Warbler

PASSERIFORMES (Locustellidae)

•Little Rush-Warbler

•River Warbler

PASSERIFORMES (Hirundinidae)

•Bank Swallow

•Mascarene Martin

•Rock Martin

•Barn Swallow

•Wire-tailed Swallow

•Red-rumped Swallow

•Lesser Striped Swallow

•Mosque Swallow

•Common House-Martin

PASSERIFORMES (Pycnonotidae)

•Sombre Greenbul

•Little Greenbul

•Common Bulbul

PASSERIFORMES (Phylloscopidae)

•Willow Warbler

PASSERIFORMES (Zosteropidae)

•African Yellow White-eye

PASSERIFORMES (Pellorneidae)

•Brown Illadopsis

•Pale-breasted Illadopsis

PASSERIFORMES (Buphagidae)

•Red-billed Oxpecker

PASSERIFORMES (Sturnidae)

•Wattled Starling

•Violet-backed Starling

•Black-bellied Starling

•Rüppell’s Starling

•Lesser Blue-eared Starling

•Greater Blue-eared Starling

PASSERIFORMES (Turdidae)

•Red-tailed Ant-Thrush

PASSERIFORMES (Muscicapidae)

•Spotted Flycatcher

•African Gray Flycatcher

•Pale Flycatcher

•Ashy Flycatcher

•Bearded Scrub-Robin

•Miombo Scrub-Robin

•White-browed Robin-Chat

•Red-capped Robin-Chat

•East Coast Akalat

•Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush

•Northern Wheatear

•Capped Wheatear

•Pied Wheatear

PASSERIFORMES (Nectariniidae)

•Plain-backed Sunbird

•Collared Sunbird

•Amani Sunbird

•Olive Sunbird

•Mouse-colored Sunbird

•Amethyst Sunbird

•Scarlet-chested Sunbird

•Hunter’s Sunbird

•Purple-banded Sunbird

•Pemba Sunbird

•Variable Sunbird

PASSERIFORMES (Ploceidae)

•Rufous-tailed Weaver

•Black-necked Weaver

•Spectacled Weaver

•African Golden-Weaver

•Holub’s Golden-Weaver

•Golden Palm Weaver

•Village Weaver

•Black-headed Weaver

•Forest Weaver

•Red-billed Quelea

•Southern Red Bishop

•Zanzibar Red Bishop

•Black-winged Bishop

•Fan-tailed Widowbird

•Grosbeak Weaver

PASSERIFORMES (Estrildidae)

•Green-backed Twinspot

•Common Waxbill

•Southern Cordonbleu

•Blue-capped Cordonbleu

•Purple Grenadier

•Green-winged Pytilia

•Orange-winged Pytilia

•Red-billed Firefinch

•Zebra Waxbill

•Bronze Mannikin

•Black-and-white Mannikin

•Magpie Mannikin

•Java Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES (Viduidae)

• Pin-tailed Whydah

• Parasitic Weaver

PASSERIFORMES (Passeridae)

•House Sparrow

•Northern Gray-headed Sparrow

•Southern Gray-headed Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES (Motacillidae)

•Western Yellow Wagtail

•African Pied Wagtail

•African Pipit

PASSERIFORMES (Fringillidae)

•Yellow-fronted Canary

In summary; The above article entails the birds in Zanzibar.