Zanzibar Archipelago Bird Checklist : It is recorded that there are around four main islands which are found within Zanzibar semi-autonomous region of Tanzania which have the biggest human population such as; Unquja and Pemba island, coral island and Latham island which also serves as an important breeding ground for the unique sea birds which are easily found in the western Indian region of the ocean. More so, there are also five important birding areas in the country which have over 230 bird species such as endemic birds, endemic sub-species, and also an important area which is best for paleatric individuals for example; those who opt to stay for a full year and also the intra-African migrants.
STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionidae
Common Ostrich
ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae
White-faced Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Egyptian Goose
Yellow-billed Duck
Red-billed Teal
White-backed Duck
African Pygmy Goose
GALLIFORMES: Numididae
Helmeted Guinea fowl
Crested Guinea fowl
GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae
Common Quail
Harlequin Quail
Blue Quail
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Podicipedidae
Little Grebe
COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
Rock Dove
Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
Dusky Turtle Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Laughing Dove
African Green Pigeon
Pemba Green Pigeon
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Blue-spotted Wood Dove
Tambourine Dove
Namaqua Dove
PHAETHONTIFORMES: Phaethontidae
White-tailed Tropicbird
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae
Mozambique Nightjar
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae
Mottled Spinetailed Swift
Böhm’s Spinetailed Swift
African Palm Swift
White-rumped Swift
Horus Swift
Little Swift
Forbes-Watson’s Swift
Common Swift
CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae
White-browed Coucal
Yellowbill
Jacobin Cuckoo
Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Klaas’s Cuckoo
Diederick Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Madagascar Cuckoo
GRUIFORMES: Rallidae
African Crake
Black Crake
Purple Swamphen
Allen’s Gallinule
Common Moorhen
Lesser Moorhen
GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae
Fischer’s Turaco
PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Tropical Shearwater
PELECANIFORMES: Ciconiidae
African Openbill
Woolly-necked Stork
European White Stork
PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae
Hamerkop
PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae
Little Bittern
Dwarf Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Striated Heron
Squacco Heron
Madagascar Pond Heron
Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
Purple Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Black Heron
Little Egret
Western Reef Egret
PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae
African Sacred Ibis
African Spoonbill
Hadada Ibis
Glossy Ibis
PELECANIFORMES: Fregatidae
Lesser Frigatebird
Great Frigatebird
PELECANIFORMES: Sulidae
Cape Gannet
Red-footed Booby
Masked Booby
PELECANIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae
Long-tailed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
PELECANIFORMES: Anhingidae
African Darter
CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae
Water Thick-knee
CHARADRIIFORMES: Haematopodidae
Eurasian Oystercatcher
CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae
Black-winged Stilt
CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae
Grey Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Three-banded Plover
White-fronted Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Caspian Plover
Spur-winged Lapwing
White-headed Lapwing
Senegal Lapwing
African Wattled Lapwing
CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae
Greater Painted-snipe
CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae
African Jacana
Lesser 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
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Common Greenshank
Wood Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae
Common Buttonquail
CHARADRIIFORMES: Dromadidae
Crab-plover
CHARADRIIFORMES: Stercorariidae
Pomarine Skua
CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae
Brown Noddy
Lesser Noddy
African Skimmer
Black-headed Gull
Gray-hooded Gull
Sooty Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Sooty Tern
Bridled Tern
Little Tern
Saunders’s Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
White-cheeked Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
Sandwich Tern
Greater Crested Tern
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae
Osprey
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae
Black-winged Kite
European Honey Buzzard
African Cuckoo Hawk
African Harrier Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
Bateleur
White-headed Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell’s Vulture
Bat Hawk
Booted Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
Western Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu’s Harrier
African Goshawk
Shikra
Little Sparrowhawk
Black Sparrowhawk
African Fish Eagle
Black Kite
STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae
Common Barn Owl
STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae
Pemba Scops Owl
African Wood Owl
COLIIFORMES: Coliidae
Speckled Mousebird
BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae
Crowned Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae
Common Hoopoe
BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae
Green Wood-hoopoe
Common Scimitarbill
Abyssinian Scimitarbill
PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae
Lesser Honeyguide
PICIFORMES: Picidae
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
PICIFORMES: Ramphastidae
Eastern Green Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
White-headed Barbet
CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae
White-throated Bee-eater
Northern Carmine Bee-eater
Olive Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae
Rufous-crowned Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
European Roller
Broad-billed Roller
CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae
African Pygmy Kingfisher
African Malachite Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Mangrove Kingfisher
FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae
Lesser Kestrel
Common Kestrel
Grey Kestrel
Dickinson’s Kestrel
Red-necked Falcon
Eleonora’s Falcon
Sooty Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Taita Falcon
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae
Grey Parrot
Brown-headed Parrot
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittaculidae
Fischer’s Lovebird
Yellow-collared Lovebird
PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae
Black Cuckooshrike
PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae
Eurasian Golden Oriole
African Golden Oriole
PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae
Forest Batis
Chinspot Batis
East Coast Batis
Black-headed Batis
Black-throated Wattle-eye
PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae
Black-backed Puffback
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra
Orange-breasted Bush-shrike
Tropical Boubou
East Coast Boubou
PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae
Square-tailed Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae
Red-backed Shrike
Lesser Grey Shrike
Long-tailed Fiscal
Northern Fiscal
PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae
Pied Crow
House Crow
PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae
Blue-mantled Paradise-flycatcher
African Paradise-flycatcher
PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae
Collared Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Mouse-coloured Sunbird
Amethyst Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
Pemba Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Grosbeak Weaver
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Black-winged Bishop
Southern Red Bishop
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Spectacled Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
African Golden Weaver
Holub’s Weaver
Golden Palm Weaver
Village Weaver
Black-headed Weaver
Golden-backed Weaver
Dark-backed Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae
Red-billed Firefinch
Orange-winged Pytilia
Green-winged Pytilia
Purple Grenadier
Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
Common Waxbill
Green-backed Twinspot
Zebra Waxbill
Bronze Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Java Sparrow
PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
Parasitic Weaver
PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae
House Sparrow
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae
African Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
African Wagtail
PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
Yellow-fronted Canary
White-bellied Canary
PASSERIFORMES: Nicatoridae
Eastern Nicator
PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Bar-throated Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Rattling Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Tawny-flanked Prinia
PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae
Little Rush Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae
Olivaceous Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae
Black Saw-wing
Northern House Martin
Lesser Striped Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Barn Swallow
Angolan Swallow
Ethiopian Swallow
Rock Martin
Mascarene Martin
Sand Martin
PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Little Greenbul
PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae
Willow Warbler
PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae
Pemba White-eye
PASSERIFORMES: Pellorneidae
Brown Thrush Babbler
Pale-breasted Thrush Babbler
PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae
Red-billed Oxpecker
PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae
Wattled Starling
Red-winged Starling
Rüppell’s Glossy Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Amethyst Starling
Black-bellied Starling
PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae
Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin
Spotted Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
African Grey Flycatcher
Red-capped Robin Chat
East Coast Akalat
Common Rock Thrush
Northern Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
Red-tailed Ant Thrush
