Zanzibar Island Birds

Zanzibar Island Birds

Zanzibar Island, with all the different beaches, offers travelers who visit Zanzibar Island for a beach holiday a variety of bird species to look out for. Apart from the different Zanzibar Island water activities, bird watching is one of the activities on Zanzibar Island that travelers can enjoy while on Zanzibar safari tours.

Below is a complete bird in Zanzibar Island that you can follow and tick as you find them along the way.

Zanzibar Island Birds
Green Woodhoopoe
White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata
Helmeted Guineafowl Numida Meleagris
Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur after
Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
African Green-Pigeon Treron calvus
Fischer’s Turaco Tauraco fischeri
White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
Burchell’s Coucal Centropus burchellii
Green Malkoha Ceuthmochares australis
Dideric Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
Madagascar Cuckoo Cuculus rochii
Little Swift Apus affinis
White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Small Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
Crab-Plover Dromas ardeola
Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
Great Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Striated Heron Butorides striata
Malagasy Pond-Heron Ardeola idae
Western Cattle-Egret Ardea ibis
Great Egret Ardea alba
Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
Gray Heron Ardea cinerea
Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus
African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
Black Goshawk Astur melanoleucus
Black Kite Milvus migrans
African Fish-Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
African Wood-Owl Strix woodfordii
Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
Green Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides
Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
Northern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus uropygialis
Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
African Hobby Falco cuvierii
Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
Short-tailed Batis Batis mixta
Pale Bat Batis soror
Eastern Black-headed Batis Batis minor
Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
Zanzibar Boubou Laniarius sublacteus
Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
African Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
House Crow Corvus splendens
Pied Crow Corvus albus
Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
Southern Yellow White-eye Zosterops anderssoni
Pemba White-eye Zosterops vaughani
Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
Tanzanian Illadopsis Illadopsis distans
Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca
Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
Bearded Scrub-Robin Tychaedon quadrivirgata
Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi
Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
Mouse-colored Sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii
Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
African Golden-Weaver Ploceus subaureus
Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
Zanzibar Red Bishop Euplectes nigroventris
Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
Black-and-white Mannequin Spermestes bicolor
Green-backed Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
Parasitic Weaver Anomalospiza imberbis
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus

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