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.
| 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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