SERENGETI BIRD LIST Ostrich Ibises & Spoonbills Banded Snake Eagle Ostrich Hadada Ibis Short-Toed Snake Eagle Glossy Ibis Bateleur Grebes Sacred Ibis Shikra Great Crested Grebe African Spoonbill Ovambo Sparrow Hawk Black-Necked Grebe Great Sparrow Hawk Little Grebe Flamingos Little Sparrow Hawk Lesser Flamingo Greater Spotted Eagle Pelicans Greater Flamingo Lesser Spotted Eagle White Pelican Imperial Eagle Pink-backed Pelican Ducks & Geese Steppe Eagle Fulvous Whistling Duck Tawny Eagle Cormorants White-Faced Whistling Duck Verreaux’s Eagle Long-tailed Cormorant Egyptian Goose Wahlberg’s Eagle Greater Cormorant Pintail Augur Buzzard Cape Wigeon Common Buzzard Darters Shoveler Ayres Hawk Eagle Darter Teal African Hawk Eagle Red-Billed Teal Lizard Buzzard Herons Hottentot Teal Long-Crested Eagle Little Bittern Wigon Gabar Goshawk Dwarf Bittern Garganey Dark Chanting Goshawk Grey Heron African Black Duck Pale Chanting Goshawk Goliath Heron Yellow-Billed Duck Martial Eagle Black-Headed Heron Southern Pochard Crowned Eagle Purple Heron African Pygmy Goose African Fish Eagle Madagascar Squacco Heron Maccoa Duck Black Kite Cattle Egret Spur-Winged Goose Cuckoo Hawk Green-Backed Heron Knob-Billed Duck Black-Shouldered Kite Great White Egret Bat Hawk Black Heron Secretary Bird Osprey Yellow-Billed Egret Secretary Bird Fox Kestrel Night Heron Eastern Red-Footed Falcon Vultures, Eagles, Hawks etc Grey Kestrel Hammerkop African White-Backed Vulture Lanner Falcon Hammerkop Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture Red-Necked Falcon Hooded Vulture Dickinson’s Kestrel Storks Egyptian Vulture Eleonora’s Falcon Open-Billed Stork Lappet-Faced Vulture Lesser Kestrel Abdim’s Stork White-Headed Vulture Peregrine Falcon White Stork Lammergeyer White-Eyed Kestrel Woolly-Necked Stork Hobby (African & European) Black Stork Raptors Kestrel Saddle-Billed Stork Eurasian Marsh Harrier Pygmy Falcon Marabou Stork Pallid Harrier Yellow-Billed Stork Montegu’s Harrier Game Birds African Marsh Harrier Quail Harrier Hawk Harlequin Quail Red-Necked Spurfowl Spur-Winged Plover Ross’s Turaco Coqui Francolin Brown-Chested Wattled Plover Hartlaub’s Turaco Hildebrandt’s Francolin Livingstone’s Turaco Yellow-Necked Spurfowl Sandpipers Shallow’s Turaco Red-Winged Froncolin Common Sandpiper Grey-Breasted Spurfowl Curlew Cuckoos Crested Francolin Spotted Redshank Didric Cuckoo Shelly’s Francolin Redshank Emerald Cuckoo Scaly Francolin Greenshank Klaas’s Cuckoo Wood Sandpiper Great Spotted Cuckoo Guineafowls Green Sandpiper Black and White Cuckoo Crested Guineafowl Marsh Sandpiper Levaillant’s Cuckoo Helmeted Guineafowl Terek Sandpiper Eurasian Cuckoo Common Snipe Black Cuckoo Button Quail African Snipe African Cuckoo Button Quail Jack Snipe Red-Chested Cuckoo Sanderling Blue-Headed Coucal Cranes Curlew Sandpiper White-Browed Coucal Crowned Crane Little Stint Black-Tailed Godwit Owls Rails Ruff Barn Owl African Crake Turnstone African Marsh Owl Lesser Moorhen Spotted Eagle Owl Common Moorhen Gulls & Terns Verreaux’s Eagle Owl Black Crake Grey-Headed Gull African Wood Owl Allen’s Gallinule Lesser Black-Baked Gull Barred Owlet Purple Gallinule Black-Headed Gull Pearl-Spotted Owlet Red-Knobbed Coot Whiskered Tern White-Faced Scops Owl White-Winged Black Tern Scops Owl Bustards Gull-Billed Tern Hartlaub’s Bustard Nightjars Black-Bellied Bustard Skimmers Slender-Tailed Nightjar Buff-Crested Bustard African Skimmer Gabon Nightjar White-Bellied Bustard Dusky Nightjar Denham’s Bustard Sandgrouse Freckled Nightjar Kori Bustard Black-Faced Sandgrouse Pennant-Winged Nightjar Chestnut-Bellied Sandgrouse Jacana Yellow-Throated Sandgrouse Swifts Jacana Mottled Swift Pigeons & Doves Little Swift Painted Snipe Namaqua Dove Eurasian Swift Painted Snipe Ring-Necked Dove Black Swift Mourning Dove White-Rumped Swift Plovers Red-Eyed Dove Horus Swift Caspian Plover Laughing Dove Alpine Swift Little Ringed Plover Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove Nyanza Swift Ringed Plover Tambourine Dove Palm Swift Mongolian Sandplover Speckled Pigeon Scarce Swift Chestnut-Brabded Sandplover Green Pigeon Kittlitz’s Plover Mousebirds Three-Banded Plover Parrots Speckled Mousebird Grey Plover Fischer’s Loverbird Blue-Naped Mousebird White-Crowned Plover Brown Parrot Blacksmith Plover Trogons Crowned Plover Turacos Narina’s Trogon Long-Toed Plover White-Bellied Go-Away Bird Senegal Plover Bare-Faced Go-Away Bird Kingfishers Wattled Plover Eastern Grey Plantain Eater Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Golden-Tailed Woodpecker Cuckoo Shrikes Malachite Kingfisher Little Spotted Woodpecker Black Cuckoo Shrike Brown-Hooded Kingfisher Nubian Woodpecker Purple-Throated Cuckoo Shrike Striped Kingfisher Cardinal Woodpecker Grey Cuckoo Shrike Chestnut-Ballied Kingfisher Bearded Woodpecker Woodland Kingfisher Bulbuls Pygmy Kingfisher Larks Grey-Olive Greenbul Red-Capped Lark Fischer’s Greenbul Bee-Eaters Fischer’s Sparrow Lark Common Bulbul White-Throated Bee-Eater Chestnut-Backed Sparrow Lark Eurasian Bee-Eater Short-Tailed Lark Thrushes Swallow-Tailed Bee-Eater Rufous-Napped Lark Red-Tailed Chat Cinnamon-Chested Bee-Eater Fawn-Coloured Lark White-Browed Scrub Robin Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater Northern White-Tailed Bush Lark Spotted Morning Thrush Little Bee-Eater Singing Bush Lark White-Browed Robin Chat Madagascar Bee-Eater Flappet Lark Red-Capped Robin Chat Irania Rollers Swallows Nightingale Lilac-Breasted Roller House Martin Little Rock Thrush Eurasian Roller Striped Swallow Rock Thrush Rufous-Crowned Roller Angola Swallow Anteater Chat Broad-Billed Roller Red-Rumped Swallow Sooty Chat Abyssinian Roller African Rock Martin Isabelline Wheatear Grey-Rumped Swallow Mourning Wheatear Hoopoe Mosque Swallow Northern Wheatear Hoopoe Wrep-Tailed Swallow Capped Wheatear White-Headed Rough-Wing Pied Wheatear Wood Hoopoes Black Rough-Wing Whinchat Scimitarbill Banded Martin Cliff Chat Violet Wood Hoopoe African Sand Martin Kurrichane Thrush Abyssinian Scimitarbill Sand Martin Green Wood Hoopoe Warblers Drongos Great Reed Warbler Hornbills Drogo Lesser Swamp Warbler Black&White Casqued Hornbill Square-Tailed Drongo Sedge Warbler Crowned Hornbill Yellow-Breasted Apalis Von der Decken’s Hornbill Orioles Grey-Backed Carnaroptera Red-Billed Hornbill African Golden Oriole Yellow Warbler Grey Hornbill Black-Headed Oriole Rock-Loving Cisticola Ground Hornbill Golden Oriole Wing-Snapping Cisticola Pectoral-Patch Cisticola Barbets Crows Rattling Cisticola Double-Toothed Barbet White-Necked Raven Tabora Cisticola Red-Fronted Barbet Pied Crow Winging Cisticola Spotted-Flanked Barbet Cape Rook Zitting Cisticola White-Headed Barbet Grey-Capped Warbler Black-Throated Barbet Tits Yellow-Bellied Eremomela Yellow-Rumped Tinkerbird White-Bellied Tit Green-Caped Eremomela Red-and-Yellow Barbet Red-Throated Tit Olivaceus Warbler Usambiro Barbet Puff-Bellied Warbler Penduline Tits Wood Warbler Honey Guides African Penduline Tit Willow Warbler Black-Throated Honeyguide Tawny-Flanked Prinia Lesser Honeyguide Babblers Fan-Tailed Warbler Scaly-Throated Honeyguide Arrow-Marked Babbler Moustached Warbler Wahlberg’s Honeybird Black-Lobed Babbler Blackcap Rufus Chanerer Garden Warbler Woodpeckers Red-Faced Crombec Flycatchers Starlings & Oxpeckers Red-Headed Quelea Grey Flycatcher Violet-Backed Starling Red-Billed Quelea Pale Flycatcher Wattled Starling Red-Billed Buffalo Weaver Silverbird Blue-Eared Glossy Starling White-Headed Buffalo Weaver Black Flycatcher Rueppell’s Long-Tailed Glossy Rufous-Tailed Weaver Southern Black Flycatcher Starling White-Browed Sparrow Weaver Dusky Flycatcher Ashy Starling Grey-Headed Social Weaver Ashy Flycatcher Red-Winged Starling Grey-Headed Sparrow Spotted Flycatcher Wallers Chestnut-Winged Starling Rufous Sparrow Boehm’s Flycatcher Hildebrandt’s Starling Yellow-Spotted Petronia Black-Headed Batis Superb Starling Speckle-Fronted Weaver Chin-Spot Batis Yellow-Billed Oxpecker Red-Billed Firefinch Indigobird Wattle-Eye Red-Billed Oxpecker Jameson’s Firefinch Indigobird Paradise Flycatcher Straw-Tailed Whydah Sunbirds Steel-Blue Whydah Wagtails & Pipits Collared Sunbird Pin-Tailed Whydah Little Tawny Pipit Eastern Violet-Backed Sunbird Paradise Whydah Red-Throated Pipit Amethyst Sunbird Plain-Backed Pipit Little Purple-Banded Sunbird Waxbills Richard’s Pipit Red-Chested Sunbird Zebra Waxbill Long-Billed Pipit Marico Sunbird Waxbill Tree Pipit Beautiful Sunbird Black-Cheeked Waxbill Rosy-Breasted Longlaw Golden-Winged Sunbird Yellow-Billed Waxbill Yellow-Throated Longlaw Scarlet-Chested Sunbird Crimson-Rumped Waxbill African Pied Wagtail Variable Sunbird African Firefinch Yellow Wagtail Green-Headed Sunbird Red-Billed Firefinch Quailfinch Bush-Shrikes White-Eye Green-Winged Pytilia Black-Backed Puffback Yellow White-Eye Red-Cheeked Cordon-Bleu Black-Headed Gonolek Blue-Capped Cordon-Bleu Tropical Boubou Weaver Finches Purple Grenadier Slate-Coloured Boubou Grosbeak Weaver Cut-Throat Grey-Headed Bush Shrike Red-Headed Weaver Black and White Mannikin Sulphur-Breasted Bush Shrike Parasitic Weaver Bronze Mannikin Brubru White-Winged Widowbird Grey-Headed Silver-Bill Brown-Headed Tchagra Red-Collared Widowbird Silver-Bill Marsh Tchagra Fan-Tailed Widowbird Black-Crowned Tchagra Yellow Bishop Black Bishop Buntings & Canaries Shrikes Black-Winged Red Bishop Golden-Breasted Bunting Magpie Shrike Yellow-Mantled Widowbird Cinnamon-Breasted Rock Fiscal Shrike Yellow-Shouldered Widowbird Bunting Red-Backed Shrike Jackson’s Widowbird Yellow-Rumped Seed-Eater Taita Shrike Southern Red Bishop White-Bellied Canary Grey-Backed Shrike Black-Headed Weaver Yellow-Fronted Canary Red-Tailed Shrike Masked Weaver Streaky Seed-Eater Lesser Grey Shrike Golden-Backed Weaver Brimstone Seed-Eater Black-Necked Weaver Helmet Shrikes Spectacle Weaver White-Crowned Shrike Chestnut Weaver Helmet Shrike Speke’s Weaver Grey-Creasted Helmet Shrike Vitelline Masked Weaver Straight-Creasted Helmet Shrike Holub’s Golden Weaver Cardinal Quelea .