Tanzanian Birds
Alphabetical List of Common Names
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Akalat, Alexander's
Akalat, Bocage's
Akalat, East Coast
Akalat, Iringa
Akalat, Rubeho
Akalat, Sharpe's
Akalat, Usambara
Alethe, brown-chested
Alethe, fire-crested
Alethe, white-chested
Ant-thrush, red-tailed
Ant-thrush, white-tailed
Anteater-Chat, northern
Apalis, bar-throated
Apalis, black-headed
Apalis, black-throated
Apalis, brown-headed
Apalis, brown-tailed
Apalis, buff-throated
Apalis, Chapin's
Apalis, chestnut-throated
Apalis, grey
Apalis, Maasai
Apalis, masked
Apalis, white-winged
Apalis, yellow-breasted
Avocet, pied

Babbler, African hill
Babbler, arrow-marked
Babbler, black-lored
Babbler, brown
Babbler, northern pied
Barbet, black-backed
Barbet, black-billed
Barbet, black-collared
Barbet, black-throated
Barbet, brown-breasted
Barbet, crested
Barbet, d’Arnaud’s
Barbet, double-toothed
Barbet, green
Barbet, grey-throated
Barbet, hairy-breasted
Barbet, miombo pied
Barbet, red-and-yellow
Barbet, red-faced
Barbet, red-fronted
Barbet, spot-flanked
Barbet, Usambiro
Barbet, white-eared
Barbet, white-headed
Barbet, Whyte's
Barbet, yellow-spotted
Bateleur
Batis, eastern black-headed
Batis, chinspot
Batis, dark
Batis, east coast (pale)
Batis, forest
Batis, pygmy
Batis, Reichenow's
Bee-eater, blue-breasted
Bee-eater, blue-cheeked
Bee-eater, Böhm’s
Bee-eater, cinnamon-chested
Bee-eater, European
Bee-eater, little
Bee-eater, northern carmine
Bee-eater, olive
Bee-eater, red-throated
Bee-eater, Somali
Bee-eater, southern carmine
Bee-eater, swallow-tailed
Bee-eater, white-fronted
Bee-eater, white-throated
Bishop, black
Bishop, black-winged red
Bishop, fire-fronted
Bishop, southern red
Bishop, yellow
Bishop, yellow-crowned
Bishop, Zanzibar red
Bittern, dwarf
Bittern, little
Blackcap, Eurasian
Bluebill, red-headed
Booby, masked
Boubou, Ethiopian
Boubou, Fülleborn's
Boubou, slate-colored
Boubou, Zanzibar
Bristlebill, red-tailed
Bristlebill, yellow-eyed
Broadbill, African
Brownbul, northern
Brownbul, terrestrial
Brubru
Buffalo-weaver, red-billed
Buffalo-weaver, white-billed
Buffalo-weaver, white-headed
Bulbul, Dodson's
Bulbul, yellow-vented
Bunting, Cabanis's
Bunting, Cape
Bunting, cinnamon-breasted
Bunting, golden-breasted
Bunting, Somali
Bushshrike, black-fronted
Bushshrike, four-coloured
Bushshrike, gray-headed
Bushshrike, Lüdher's
Bushshrike, orange-breasted
Bushshrike, rosy-patched
Bushshrike, sulphur-breasted
Bushshrike, Uluguru
Bustard, black-bellied
Bustard, buff-crested
Bustard, Denham's
Bustard, Hartlaub's
Bustard, kori
Bustard, white-bellied
Buttonquail, small (common)
Buzzard, augur
Buzzard, common
Buzzard, European honey
Buzzard, grasshopper
Buzzard, lizard
Buzzard, long-legged
Buzzard, mountain
Buzzard, steppe

Camaroptera, green-backed
Camaroptera, gray-backed
Camaroptera, olive-green
Canary, brimstone
Canary, papyrus
Canary, southern grosbeak
Canary, white-bellied
Canary, yellow-crowned
Canary, yellow-fronted
Chat, Arnot’s
Chat, (mocking) cliff
Chat, familiar
Chat, moorland
Chat, northern anteater
Chat, Ruaha
Chat, rufous bush
Chat, sooty
Chatterer, rufous
Chatterer, scaly
Chiffchaff, common
Cisticola, ashy
Cisticola, black-backed
Cisticola, black-lored
Cisticola, Carruther's
Cisticola, Chubb's
Cisticola, churring
Cisticola, coastal
Cisticola, croaking
Cisticola, desert
Cisticola, Hunter's
Cisticola, Kilombero
Cisticola, Levaillant's
Cisticola, Lynes's
Cisticola, pale-crowned
Cisticola, pectoral-patch
Cisticola, piping
Cisticola, rattling
Cisticola, red-faced
Cisticola, rock-loving
Cisticola, siffling
Cisticola, singing
Cisticola, stout
Cisticola, Tabora
Cisticola, tiny
Cisticola, trilling
Cisticola, wailing
Cisticola, white-tailed
Cisticola, winding
Cisticola, wing-snapping
Cisticola, zitting
Citril, southern
Citril, western
Cliff-chat
Collared-dove, mourning
Coot, red-knobbed
Cordon-bleu, blue-capped
Cordon-bleu, red-cheeked
Cordon-bleu, southern
Cormorant, great
Cormorant, reed
Corncrake
Coucal, black
Coucal, blue-headed
Coucal, Burchell's
Coucal, coppery-tailed
Coucal, Senegal
Coucal, white-browed
Courser, bronze-winged
Courser, double-banded (two-banded)
Courser, Temminck's
Courser, three-banded (Heuglin's)
Courser, violet-tipped
Crag-martin, red-throated
Crake, African
Crake, Baillon's
Crake, black
Crake, corn
Crake, spotted
Crake, striped
Crane, grey-crowned
Crane, wattled
Creeper, spotted
Crimsonwing, Abyssinian
Crimsonwing, red-faced
Crombec, green
Crombec, long-billed
Crombec, northern
Crombec, red-faced
Crombec, white-browed
Crow, cape
Crow, house
Crow, pied
Cuckoo, African
Cuckoo, African emerald
Cuckoo, barred long-tailed
Cuckoo, black
Cuckoo, common
Cuckoo, Diederik
Cuckoo, great spotted
Cuckoo, Klaas’s
Cuckoo, (Asian) lesser
Cuckoo, Levaillant's
Cuckoo, Madagascar
Cuckoo, Pied
Cuckoo, red-chested
Cuckoo, thick-billed
Cuckoo-hawk, African
Cuckooshrike, black
Cuckooshrike, grey
Cuckooshrike, purple-throated
Cuckooshrike, white-breasted
Curlew, Eurasian
Cut-throat

Dapple-throat
Darter, African
Dove, cape turtle
Dove, dusky turtle
Dove, laughing
Dove, lemon
Dove, mourning collared
Dove, namaqua
Dove, red-eyed
Dove, ring-necked
Dove, tambourine
Drongo, fork-tailed
Drongo, square-tailed
Drongo, Usambara
Duck, African black
Duck, fulvous whistling
Duck, knob-billed
Duck, maccoa
Duck, tufted
Duck, white-backed
Duck, white-faced whistling
Duck, yellow-billed

Eagle, African fish
Eagle, African hawk
Eagle, Ayres' hawk
Eagle, booted
Eagle, Cassin's hawk
Eagle, crowned
Eagle, greater spotted
Eagle, imperial
Eagle, lesser spotted
Eagle, long-crested
Eagle, martial
Eagle, steppe
Eagle, tawny
Eagle, Verreaux's
Eagle, Wahlberg's
Eagle-owl, cape
Eagle-owl, spotted
Eagle-owl, Usambara
Eagle-owl, Verreaux's
Egret, cattle
Egret, dimorphic
Egret, great
Egret, little
Egret, western reef
Egret, yellow-billed
Eremomela, black-necked
Eremomela, green-capped
Eremomela, yellow-bellied
Eremomela, yellow-vented

Falcon, amur
Falcon, Eleonora's
Falcon, lanner
Falcon, peregrine
Falcon, pygmy
Falcon, red-necked
Falcon, sooty
Falcon, Taita
Falcon, red-footed
Finch, cut-throat
Finch, locust
Finch, oriole
Finfoot, African
Firefinch, African
Firefinch, brown
Firefinch, Jameson's
Firefinch, red-billed
Fiscal, grey-backed
Fiscal, long-tailed
Fiscal, northern
Fiscal, southern
Fiscal, Taita
Fiscal, Uhehe
Fishing-owl, Pel's
Flamingo, greater
Flamingo, lesser
Flufftail, buff-spotted
Flufftail, red-chested
Flufftail, streaky-breasted
Flufftail, striped
Flufftail, white-spotted
Flycatcher, African blue
Flycatcher, African crested
Flycatcher, African dusky
Flycatcher, African gray
Flycatcher, African shrike
Flycatcher, ashy
Flycatcher, black-and-white shrike-
Flycatcher, Böhms
Flycatcher, collared
Flycatcher, Gambaga
Flycatcher, gray tit
Flycatcher, yellow
Flycatcher, Livingstone's
Flycatcher, northern black
Flycatcher, pale
Flycatcher, semi-collared
Flycatcher, southern black
Flycatcher, spotted
Flycatcher, swamp
Flycatcher, vanga
Flycatcher, white-eyed slaty
Flycatcher, white-tailed blue
Flycatcher, white-tailed crested
Francolin, coqui
Francolin, crested
Francolin, Hildebrandt's
Francolin, red-winged
Francolin, scaly
Francolin, Shelley's
Frigatebird, great
Frigatebird, lesser

G
allinule, Allen's
Gallinule, purple
Gannet, cape
Garganey
Go-away-bird, bare-faced
Go-away-bird, grey
Go-away-bird, white-bellied
Godwit, bar-tailed
Godwit, black-tailed
Gonolek, black-headed
Gonolek, papyrus
Goose, African pygmy
Goose, Egyptian
Goose, spur-winged
Goshawk, African
Goshawk, dark chanting
Goshawk, eastern (pale) chanting
Goshawk, gabar
Grassbird, fan-tailed
Grebe, black-necked
Grebe, great crested
Grebe, little
Greenbul, black-browed mountain
Greenbul, black-headed mountain
Greenbul, Cabanis's
Greenbul, Fischer's
Greenbul, grey-olive
Greenbul, joyful
Greenbul, little
Greenbul, little grey
Greenbul, lowland tiny
Greenbul, olive-headed
Greenbul, placid
Greenbul, plain
Greenbul, red-tailed
Greenbul, Shelley's


Greenbul, slender-billed
Greenbul, sombre
Greenbul, spotted
Greenbul, tiny
Greenbul, Toro olive
Greenbul, Uluguru mountain
Greenbul, Usambara
Greenbul, yellow-bellied
Greenbul, yellow-gorgeted
Greenbul, yellow-streaked
Greenbul, yellow-throated
Greenbul, yellow-throated mountain
Greenbul, yellow-whiskered
Greenshank, common
Grenadier, purple
Ground-hornbill, southern
Ground-thrush, Abyssinian
Ground-thrush, orange
Ground-thrush, spotted
Guineafowl, eastern crested
Guineafowl, helmeted
Guineafowl, vulturine
Gull, common black-headed
Gull, gray-hooded
Gull, Heuglin's
Gull, kelp
Gull, lesser black-backed
Gull, slender-billed
Gull, sooty
Gull, yellow-legged
Gymnogene

Hamerkop
Harrier, African Marsh
Harrier, Malagasy
Harrier, Montagu's
Harrier, pallid
Harrier, Western Marsh
Hawk, African cuckoo
Hawk, African harrier
Hawk, bat
Hawk-eagle, African
Hawk-eagle, Ayres'
Hawk-eagle, Cassin's
Helmetshrike, chestnut-fronted
Helmetshrike, grey-crested
Helmetshrike, Retz's
Helmetshrike, white-crested
Heron, black
Heron, black-headed
Heron, goliath
Heron, grey
Heron, little
Heron, Humblot's (Madagascar)
Heron, Malagasy pond
Heron, purple
Heron, rufous-bellied
Heron, squacco
Heron, striated
Heron, western reef
Hobby, African
Hobby, Eurasian
Honeybird, brown-backed
Honeybird, green-backed
Honey-buzzard, European
Honeyguide, greater
Honeyguide, least
Honeyguide, lesser
Honeyguide, pallid
Honeyguide, scaly-throated
Hoopoe, African
Hoopoe, common
Hornbill, African grey
Hornbill, black-and-white-casqued
Hornbill, crowned
Hornbill, eastern yellow-billed
Hornbill, northern red-billed
Hornbill, pale-billed
Hornbill, Ruaha
Hornbill, silvery-cheeked
Hornbill, southern ground
Hornbill, Tanzanian red-billed
Hornbill, trumpeter
Hornbill, von der Decken's
Hylia, green
Hyliota, Usambara
Hyliota, yellow-bellied

Ibis, glossy
Ibis, hadada
Ibis, sacred
Illadopsis, brown
Illadopsis, mountain
Illadopsis, pale-breasted
Illadopsis, scaly-breasted
Indigobird, dusky
Indigobird, green
Indigobird, purple
Indigobird, village
Irania

Jacana, African
Jacana, lesser
Jaeger, long-tailed
Jaeger, parasitic

Kestrel, common (Eurasian)
Kestrel, Dickinson's
Kestrel, greater
Kestrel, gray
Kestrel, lesser
Kestrel, rock
Kingfisher, African pygmy
Kingfisher, blue-breasted
Kingfisher, brown-hooded
Kingfisher, giant
Kingfisher, gray-headed
Kingfisher, half-collared
Kingfisher, malachite
Kingfisher, mangrove
Kingfisher, pied
Kingfisher, striped
Kingfisher, woodland
Kite, black
Kite, black-winged (-shouldered)
Kite, yellow-billed

Lammergeier
Lapwing, black-headed
Lapwing, black-winged
Lapwing, blacksmith
Lapwing, brown-chested
Lapwing, crowned
Lapwing, long-toed
Lapwing, Senegal
Lapwing, spur-winged
Lapwing, wattled
Lapwing, white-crowned
Lark, Athi short-toed
Lark, Beesley's
Lark, dusky
Lark, fawn-coloured
Lark, flappet
Lark, Friedmann's
Lark, greater short-toed
Lark, pink-breasted
Lark, plateau
Lark, red-capped
Lark, red-winged
Lark, rufous-naped
Lark, sentinal
Lark, short-tailed
Lark, singing bush
Lark, Somali short-toed
Lark, white-tailed
Leaflove
Locustfinch
Longbill, Kretschmer's
Longbill, yellow
Longclaw, Fülleborn's
Longclaw, Pangani
Longclaw, rosy-breasted
Longclaw, yellow-throated
Lovebird, Fischer's
Lovebird, red-headed
Lovebird, yellow-collared

Malimbe, red-headed
Malkoha, blue
Malkoha, green
Mannikin, black-and-white
Mannikin, bronze
Mannikin, magpie
Mannikin, red-backed
Marsh-harrier, African
Martin, banded
Martin, brown-throated
Martin, common house
Martin, Mascarene
Martin, plain
Martin, rock
Martin, sand
Moorhen, Eurasian
Moorhen, lesser
Morning-thrush, spotted
Mousebird, blue-naped
Mousebird, red-faced
Mousebird, speckled
Mousebird, white-headed

Nicator, eastern
Nicator, western
Night-heron, black-crowned
Night-heron, white-backed
Nightingale
Nightingale, thrush
Nightjar, Donaldson-Smiths
Nightjar, Eurasian
Nightjar, fiery-necked
Nightjar, freckled
Nightjar, montane
Nightjar, pennant-winged
Nightjar, plain
Nightjar, slender-tailed
Nightjar, sombre
Nightjar, square-tailed
Nightjar, swamp
Nightjar, Usambara
Nigrita, gray-headed
Nigrita, white-breasted
Noddy, brown
Noddy, lesser

O liveback, white-collared
Openbill, African
Oriole, African black-headed
Oriole, African golden
Oriole, black-tailed
Oriole, Eurasian golden
Oriole, green-headed
Oriole, western black-headed
Osprey
Ostrich
Owl, African grass
Owl, African wood
Owl, barn
Owl, cape eagle
Owl, marsh
Owl, Pel's fishing
Owl, short-eared
Owl, southern white-faced
Owl, spotted eagle
Owl, Verreaux's eagle
Owlet, African barred
Owlet, pearl-spotted
Oxpecker, red-billed
Oxpecker, yellow-billed
Oystercatcher, Eurasian

Palm-thrush, collared
Palm-thrush, spotted
Paradise-flycatcher, African
paradise-flycatcher, black-headed
Paradise-whydah, eastern
Paradise-whydah, broad-tailed
Parisoma, banded
Parisoma, brown
Parrot, brown-headed
Parrot, brown-necked
Parrot, grey
Parrot, Meyer's
Parrot, red-bellied
Parrot, red-fronted
Partridge, Udzungwa
Pelican, great white
Pelican, pink-backed
Penduline-tit, African
Penduline-tit, mouse-coloured
Phalarope, red
Phalarope, red-necked
Pigeon, afep
Pigeon, African green
Pigeon, eastern bronze-naped
Pigeon, olive (Rameron)
Pigeon, Pemba green
Pigeon, rock
Pigeon, speckled
Pintail, northern
Pipit, African
Pipit, buffy
Pipit, bush
Pipit, golden
Pipit, long-billed
Pipit, plain-backed
Pipit, red-throated
Pipit, Sokoke
Pipit, striped
Pipit, tree
Pipit, woodland
Pitta, African
Pitta, green-breasted
Plantain-eater, eastern
Plover, black-bellied
Plover, black-winged
Plover, Caspian
Plover, chestnut-banded
Plover, common ringed
Plover, crab
Plover, crowned
Plover, Forbes's
Plover, greater sand
Plover, Kittlitz’s
Plover, little ringed
Plover, Pacific golden
Plover, Senegal
Plover, spur-winged
Plover, three-banded
Plover, wattled
Plover, white-fronted
Pochard, southern
Pratincole, collared
Pratincole, Madagascar
Pratincole, rock
Prinia, pale
Prinia, red-fronted
Prinia, red-winged
Prinia, tawny-flanked
Prinia, white-chinned
Puffback, black-backed
Puffback, northern
Puffback, pink-footed
Puffback, Pringle's
Pytilia, green-winged
Pytilia, orange-winged

Quail-plover
Quail, button
Quail, common
Quail, harlequin
Quailfinch
Quelea, cardinal
Quelea, red-billed
Quelea, red-headed

Rail, African
Raven, white-necked
Redshank, spotted
Redstart, common
Robin-chat, blue-shouldered
Robin-chat, cape
Robin-chat, gray-winged
Robin-chat, olive-flanked
Robin-chat, red-capped
Robin-chat, Rueppell's
Robin-chat, snowy-crowned
Robin-chat, white-browed
Robin, dappled mountain
Robin, orange-breasted forest
Robin, Swynnerton's
Robin, white-starred
Robin, white-throated
Rock-thrush, little
Rock-thrush, miombo
Rock-thrush, rufous-tailed
Roller, Abyssinian
Roller, broad-billed
Roller, European
Roller, lilac-breasted
Roller, racket-tailed
Roller, purple
Ruff

Sanderling
Sandgrouse, black-faced
Sandgrouse, chestnut-bellied
Sandgrouse, yellow-throated
Sandpiper, broad-billed
Sandpiper, common
Sandpiper, curlew
Sandpiper, green
Sandpiper, marsh
Sandpiper, pectoral
Sandpiper, terek
Sandpiper, wood
Sandplover, greater
Sandplover, Siberian
Sawwing, black
Sawwing, black (oriental)
Sawwing, white-headed
Scimitarbill, Abyssinian
Scimitarbill, common
Scimitarbill, forest
Scops-owl, African
Scops-owl, Pemba
Scops-owl, Sokoke
Scrub-robin, eastern bearded
Scrub-robin, brown-backed
Scrub-robin, miombo
Scrub-robin, rufous-tailed
Scrub-robin, white-browed
Secretarybird
Seedcracker, black-bellied
Seedcracker, lesser
Seedeater, black-eared
Seedeater, Kipengere
Seedeater, Reichard's
Seedeater, Reichenow's
Seedeater, streaky
Seedeater, thick-billed
Seedeater, yellow-browed
Shearwater, Persian
Shearwater, sooty
Shoebill
Shikra
Shoveler, cape
Shoveler, northern
Shrike, Isabelline
Shrike, lesser gray
Shrike, MacKinnon's
Shrike, magpie


Shrike, white-crowned
Shrike, red-backed
Shrike, red-tailed
Shrike, Souza's
Shrike, woodchat
Shrike-flycatcher, African
Shrike-flycatcher, black-and-white
Silverbill, African
Silverbill, grey-headed
Silverbird
Skimmer, African
Skua, brown
Snake-eagle, black-chested
Snake-eagle, brown
Snake-eagle, short-toed
Snake-eagle, southern banded
Snake-eagle, western banded
Snipe, African
Snipe, common
Snipe, great
Snipe, greater painted
Social-weaver, black-capped
Social-weaver, grey-capped
Sparrow-weaver, white-browed
Sparrow, yellow-spotted bush
Sparrow, yellow-throated bush
Sparrow, chestnut
Sparrow, house
Sparrow, Java
Sparrow, northern gray-headed
Sparrow, parrot-billed
Sparrow, rufous
Sparrow, southern gray-headed
Sparrow, Swahili
Sparrow, yellow-spotted bush
Sparrow, yellow-throated bush
Sparrowhawk, black
Sparrowhawk, Eurasian
Sparrowhawk, Levant
Sparrowhawk, little
Sparrowhawk, ovambo
Sparrowhawk, rufous-breasted
Sparrowlark, chestnut-backed
Sparrowlark, Fischer’s
Spinetail, Boehm's
Spinetail, mottled
Spoonbill, African
Spot-throat
Sprosser
Spurfowl, grey-breasted
Spurfowl, Hildebrandt's
Spurfowl, red-necked
Spurfowl, scaly
Spurfowl, yellow-necked
Starling, Abbott's
Starling, ashy
Starling, babbling
Starling, black-bellied
Starling, Fischer's
Starling, golden-breasted
Starling, greater blue-eared
Starling, Hildebrandt's
Starling, Kenrick's
Starling, magpie
Starling, miombo blue-eared
Starling, red-winged
Starling, rosy
Starling, Rueppell's
Starling, Sharpe's
Starling, Shelley's
Starling, slender-billed
Starling, splendid
Starling, Stuhlmann's
Starling, superb
Starling, violet-backed
Starling, Waller's
Starling, wattled
Starling, white-winged
Stilt, black-winged
Stint, little
Stint, Temminck's
Stonechat, African
Stork, Abdim's
Stork, black
Stork, marabou
Stork, open-billed
Stork, saddle-billed
Stork, white
Stork, woolly-necked
Stork, yellow-billed
Sunbird, Amani
Sunbird, amethyst
Sunbird, Anchieta's
Sunbird, Angola white-bellied
Sunbird, banded
Sunbird, black-bellied
Sunbird, bronze
Sunbird, collared
Sunbird, copper
Sunbird, eastern double-collared
Sunbird, eastern violet-backed
Sunbird, forest double-collared
Sunbird, forest double-collared (Fülleborn's)
Sunbird, golden-winged
Sunbird, gorgeous
Sunbird, green (grey-chinned)
Sunbird, green-headed
Sunbird, green-throated
Sunbird, grey-headed
Sunbird, Hofmann's
Sunbird, Hunter’s
Sunbird, little green
Sunbird, Loveridge’s
Sunbird, malachite
Sunbird, marico
Sunbird, Moreau's
Sunbird, mouse-coloured (grey)
Sunbird, olive
Sunbird, olive-bellied
Sunbird, Oustalet's
Sunbird, Pemba
Sunbird, plain-backed
Sunbird, purple-banded
Sunbird, red-chested
Sunbird, regal
Sunbird, rufous-winged
Sunbird, scarlet-chested
Sunbird, scarlet-tufted malachite
Sunbird, Shelley's
Sunbird, Skye
Sunbird, superb
Sunbird, tacazze
Sunbird, Tsavo
Sunbird, Uluguru violet-backed
Sunbird, Usambara double-collared
Sunbird, variable
Sunbird, western miombo
Sunbird, western violet-backed
Sunbird, white-bellied
Swallow, Angola
Swallow, bank
Swallow, barn
Swallow, blue
Swallow, Ethiopian
Swallow, greater striped
Swallow, grey-rumped
Swallow, lesser striped
Swallow, mosque
Swallow, pearl-breasted
Swallow, red-breasted
Swallow, African red-rumped
Swallow, white-throated
Swallow, wire-tailed
Swamp-warbler, greater
Swamp-warbler, lesser
Swamphen, African (purple)
Swift, African black
Swift, African palm
Swift, alpine
Swift, common (Eurasian)
Swift, Forbes-Watson
Swift, horus
Swift, little
Swift, mottled
Swift, nyanza
Swift, scarce
Swift, white-rumped

Tailorbird, African
Tailorbird, long-billed
Tchagra, Anchieta's
Tchagra, black-crowned
Tchagra, brown-crowned
Tchagra, marsh
Tchagra, three-streaked
Teal, blue-billed (hottentot)
Teal, cape
Teal, green-winged (common)
Teal, red-billed
Tern, black
Tern, bridled
Tern, Caspian
Tern, common
Tern, great crested
Tern, gull-billed
Tern, lesser-crested
Tern, little
Tern, roseate
Tern, sandwich
Tern, Saunder's
Tern, sooty
Tern, swift
Tern, whiskered
Tern, white-cheeked
Tern, white-winged
Thick-knee, spotted
Thick-knee, water
Thrush, Abyssinian
Thrush, African
Thrush, bare-eyed
Thrush, (Fraser's) rufous flycatcher
Thrush, groundscraper
Thrush, kurrichane
Thrush, mountain
Thrush, spotted morning
Thrush, Usambara
Tinkerbird, green
Tinkerbird, moustached
Tinkerbird, northern red-fronted
Tinkerbird, yellow-fronted
Tinkerbird, yellow-rumped
Tit-flycatcher, gray
Tit, cinnamon-breasted (rufous-bellied)
Tit, miombo grey
Tit, northern grey (Acacia, Somali)
Tit, red-throated
Tit, white-bellied
Tit, white-winged black
Trogon, bar-tailed
Trogon, Narina
Tropicbird, white-tailed
Turaco, black-billed
Turaco, Fischer's
Turaco, great-blue
Turaco, Hartlaub's
Turaco, Livingstone's
Turaco, purple-crested
Turaco, Ross's
Turaco, Schalow's
Turnstone, ruddy
Twinspot, green-backed
Twinspot, Peters's (red-throated)

Vulture, bearded
Vulture, Egyptian
Vulture, hooded
Vulture, lappet-faced
Vulture, palm-nut
Vulture, Rueppell's
Vulture, white-backed
Vulture, white-headed

Wagtail, African pied
Wagtail, cape
Wagtail, grey
Wagtail, mountain
Wagtail, white
Wagtail, western yellow
Warbler, African reed
Warbler, bamboo
Warbler, barred
Warbler, Basra reed
Warbler, black-faced rufous
Warbler, broad-tailed
Warbler, brown woodland
Warbler, buff-bellied
Warbler, cinnamon bracken
Warbler, dark-capped yellow
Warbler, eastern olivaceous
Warbler, evergreen forest
Warbler, garden
Warbler, great reed
Warbler, greater swamp
Warbler, grey-capped
Warbler, icterine
Warbler, lesser swamp
Warbler, little rush
Warbler, long-billed forest
Warbler, (European) marsh
Warbler, mountain yellow
Warbler, moustached grass
Warbler, Mrs. Moreau's
Warbler, olive-tree
Warbler, red-capped forest
Warbler, Rubeho
Warbler, sedge
Warbler, Upcher's
Warbler, white-winged
Warbler, willow
Warbler, wood
Warbler, yellow-throated woodland
Wattle-eye, black-throated
Wattle-eye, brown-throated
Wattle-eye, chestnut
Wattle-eye, Jameson's
Wattle-eye, yellow-bellied
Waxbill, black-crowned
Waxbill, black-faced
Waxbill, black-rumped
Waxbill, black-tailed
Waxbill, common
Waxbill, crimson-rumped
Waxbill, fawn-breasted
Waxbill, yellow-bellied
Waxbill, zebra
Weaver, African golden
Weaver, baglafecht
Weaver, Bertram's
Weaver, black-billed
Weaver, black-headed
Weaver, black-necked
Weaver, brown-capped
Weaver, chestnut
Weaver, compact
Weaver, dark-backed
Weaver, golden-backed (Jackson's)
Weaver, golden palm
Weaver, grosbeak (thick-billed)
Weaver, Holub’s golden
Weaver, Kilombero
Weaver, lesser-masked
Weaver, little
Weaver, northern brown-throated
Weaver, olive-headed
Weaver, orange
Weaver, parasitic
Weaver, red-headed
Weaver, rufous-tailed
Weaver, Ruvu
Weaver, slender-billed
Weaver, southern brown-throated
Weaver, speckle-fronted
Weaver, spectacled
Weaver, Speke’s
Weaver, Tanganyika (Tanzania) masked
Weaver, taveta (golden)
Weaver, Usambara
Weaver, Vieillot’s black
Weaver, village
Weaver, vitelline masked
Weaver, Weyns's
Weaver, yellow-backed
Wheatear, capped
Wheatear, isabelline
Wheatear, northern
Wheatear, pied
Wheatear, Schalow's
Whimbrel
Whistling-duck, fulvous
Whistling-duck, white-faced
Whinchat
White-eye, Abyssinian
White-eye, montane
White-eye, green
White-eye, Kilimanjaro
White-eye, Mbulu
White-eye, northern yellow
White-eye, pale (Kenya)
White-eye, Pemba
White-eye, South Pare
White-eye, southern yellow
Whitethroat, greater
Whydah, broad-tailed paradise
Whydah, eastern paradise
Whydah, pin-tailed
Whydah, steel-blue
Whydah, straw-tailed
Widowbird, buff-shouldered
Widowbird, fan-tailed
Widowbird, Jackson's
Widowbird, red-collared
Widowbird, red-cowled
Widowbird, white-winged
Widowbird, yellow-mantled
Wigeon, Eurasian
Wood-dove, blue-spotted
Wood-dove, emerald-spotted
Wood-hoopoe, forest
Wood-hoopoe, green
Wood-hoopoe, violet
Wood-hoopoe, white-headed
Woodpecker, African grey
Woodpecker, bearded
Woodpecker, Bennett's
Woodpecker, brown-backed
Woodpecker, brown-eared
Woodpecker, cardinal
Woodpecker, eastern grey
Woodpecker, fine-banded
Woodpecker, golden-tailed
Woodpecker, green-backed
Woodpecker, little spotted
Woodpecker, Mombasa
Woodpecker, Nubian
Woodpecker, olive
Woodpecker, speckle-throated
Woodpecker, western grey
Woodpecker, yellow-crested
Wren-warbler, grey
Wren-warbler, miombo (pale)
Wren-warbler, Stierling's (barred)
Wryneck, Eurasian
Wryneck, red-throated

Yellowbill, eastern
Yellowbill, western

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