Checklist of Birds of Tanzania Modified by Alan Rogers from Birds of Tanzania: A Working Checklist (February 2003), by Neil & Liz Baker. Key to superscripts: Aan addition to the Tanzanian list since Britton (ed.) 1980; na name change (English or scientific) from Britton (ed.) 1980; sa form not recognised as specifically distinct by Britton (ed.). Ostriches 2 Rufous-bellied Heron 2 Green-winged Tealn 2 Steppe Buzzardn 2 Cattle Egret 2 Pintail 2 Mountain Buzzardn 2 Ostrich 2 Green-backed Heron 2 Red-billed Tealn 2 Long-legged Buzzard 2 Black Heron 2 Hottentot Teal 2 Augur Buzzard Albatrosses 2 Dimorphic Egrets 2 Garganey 2 Wahlberg’s Eagle A A 2 Shy AlbatrossA 2 Little Egret 2 Cape Shoveler 2 Greater Spotted Eagle 2 Great White Egret 2 Northern Shovelern 2 Lesser Spotted Eagle 2 Yellow-billed Egret 2 Southern Pochard 2 Tawny Eagle Petrels & Shearwaters 2 Purple Heron 2 Northern Pochardn 2 Steppe Eagle 2 Giant PetrelA 2 Grey Heron 2 Tufted Duck 2 Imperial Eagle 2 Audubon’s ShearwaterA 2 Black-headed Heron 2 Maccoa Duck 2 Verreaux’s Eaglen 2 Goliath Heron 2 African Hawk Eagle 2 Booted Eagle Grebes Vultures, Eagles, Kites, 2 Ayres’ Hawk Eaglen Hamerkop Hawks etc 2 Little Grebe 2 Long-crested Eagle 2 Great Crested Grebe 2 Hamerkop 2 Crowned Eagle 2 Cuckoo Hawk 2 Black-necked Grebe 2 Martial Eagle 2 Honey Buzzard 2 Osprey Storks 2 Bat Hawk Tropicbirds Yellow-billed Stork 2 Black-shouldered Kite 2 A Secretarybird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Swallow-tailed Kite 2 Open-billed Stork n 2 Black Stork 2 Black-billed Kite 2 Secretary Bird 2 Yellow-billed Kites Gannets & Boobies 2 Abdim’s Stork 2 Fish Eagle 2 Woolly-necked Stork Falcons 2 Cape Gannetn 2 Palmnut Vulturen 2 White Stork n 2 Masked Booby 2 Saddle-billed Stork 2 Lammergeier 2 Pygmy Falcon A 2 Red-footed Booby 2 Marabou Storkn 2 Egyptian Vulture 2 Lesser Kestrel 2 Hooded Vulturen 2 Common Kestreln 2 White-backed Vulture s Cormorants Shoebill 2 Rock Kestrel 2 R¨uppell’s Vulturen 2 White-eyed Kestrel 2 White-breasted 2 Lappet-faced Vulture Grey Kestrel s 2 Shoebill 2 Cormorant 2 White-headed Vulture 2 Dickinson’s Kestrel 2 Long-tailed Cormorant 2 Black-chested Snake Ibis & Spoonbills 2 Red-footed Falcon Eagles 2 Amur Falconn Darters 2 Sacred Ibisn 2 Brown Snake Eagle 2 Red-necked Falcon 2 Glossy Ibis 2 Southern Banded Snake 2 Eurasian Hobbyn 2 African Dartern 2 Hadada Ibisn Eagle 2 African Hobby 2 Green Ibis 2 Western Banded Snake 2 Eleonora’s Falcon Pelicans 2 African Spoonbill Eaglen 2 Sooty Falcon Bateleur 2 Great White Pelicann 2 2 Lanner Falcon Gymnogenen 2 Pink-backed Pelican Flamingos 2 2 Saker Falcon 2 Eurasian Marsh Harrier 2 Taita Falcon 2 Greater Flamingo 2 African Marsh Harrier Barbary FalconA Frigatebirds 2 2 Lesser Flamingon 2 Pallid Harrier 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Greater Frigatebird 2 Montagu’s Harrier 2 Lesser Frigatebird Ducks & Geese 2 Dark Chanting Goshawk Francolins & Quails 2 Pale Chanting Goshawk 2 Fulvous Tree Duckn 2 Gabar Goshawkn 2 Coqui Francolin Bitterns, Egrets & n A Herons 2 White-faced Tree Duck 2 Great Sparrowhawk 2 Forest Francolin 2 White-backed Duck 2 Ovambo Sparrowhawkn 2 Crested Francolin 2 Great Bitternn 2 Egyptian Goose 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk 2 Ring-necked Francolin 2 Little Bittern 2 Spur-winged Goose 2 Rufous Sparrowhawk 2 Shelley’s Francolin 2 Dwarf Bittern 2 Knob-billed Duck 2 Little Sparrowhawk 2 Red-winged Francolin 2 Night Heron 2 Pygmy Goose 2 African Goshawk 2 Hildebrandt’s Francolin 2 White-backed Night Heron 2 Black Duck 2 Shikra 2 Scaly Francolin 2 Squacco Heron 2 Yellow-billed Duck 2 Levant Sparrowhawk 2 Red-necked Spurfowl 2 Madagascar Squacco 2 Wigeon 2 Grasshopper Buzzard 2 Grey-breasted Spurfowl Heron 2 Cape Tealn 2 Lizard Buzzard 2 Yellow-necked Spurfowl 1 2 Udzungwa Forest Oystercatchers 2 Spotted Redshank Pigeons & Doves PartridgeA 2 Redshank 2 Common Quailn 2 Oystercatcher 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Harlequin Quail 2 Greenshank 2 Blue Quails Stilts & Avocets 2 Green Sandpiper 2 Wood Sandpiper 2 Speckled Pigeon 2 Black-winged Stilt 2 Terek Sandpiper 2 Afep Pigeon Guineafowls 2 Avocet 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Olive Pigeon 2 Crested Guineafowl 2 Eastern Bronze-naped 2 Turnstone n 2 Vulturine Guineafowl Crab Plover 2 Red Knotn Pigeon 2 Helmeted Guineafowl 2 Lemon Dove 2 Crab Plover 2 Sanderling A 2 Little Stint 2 Turtle Dove Buttonquails 2 Temminck’s Stint 2 Dusky Turtle Dove Stone Curlews A 2 Laughing Dove A 2 Long-toed Stint 2 Quail-plover 2 Mourning Dove n 2 Eurasian Stone Curlewn 2 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Common Buttonquail 2 Ring-necked Dove 2 Water Thicknee 2 Broad-billed Sandpiper 2 Black-rumped 2 Red-eyed Dove Buttonquailn 2 Spotted Thicknee 2 Ruff 2 Red-necked Phalarope 2 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Rails & Crakes Coursers & Pratincoles 2 Blue-spotted Wood Dove Skuas Tambourine Dove 2 White-spotted Flufftailn 2 Two-banded Courser 2 2 Namaqua Dove 2 Buff-spotted Flufftailn 2 Heuglin’s Courser 2 Pomarine SkuaA 2 Pemba Green Pigeons 2 Red-chested Flufftailn 2 Violet-tipped Courser 2 Long-tailed SkuaA 2 African Green Pigeonn 2 Long-toed Flufftailn 2 Temminck’s Courser 2 Arctic SkuaA 2 Streaky-breasted 2 Collared Pranticolen A Black-winged PratincoleA Flufftail 2 Gulls 2 Striped Flufftailn 2 Madagascar Pratincole n 2 African Water Rail 2 Rock Pratincole 2 Sooty Gull Parrots 2 Corncrake 2 Kelp Gull 2 African Crake Plovers 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 Black Craken 2 Heuglins Gulln 2 Baillon’s Craken 2 Little Ringed Plover 2 Black-headed Gull 2 Spotted Crake 2 Ringed Plover 2 Grey Parrot n 2 Grey-headed Gull 2 Striped Craken 2 Kittlitz’s Plover 2 Brown-necked Parrot 2 Purple Gallinule 2 Three-banded Plover 2 Red-fronted Parrot Terns 2 Allen’s Gallinulen 2 Forbes’ Plover 2 Orange-bellied Parrot 2 White-fronted Plovern 2 Lesser Moorhen 2 Gull-billed Tern 2 Brown Parrot 2 Chestnut-banded Plovern 2 Common Moorhen 2 Caspian Tern 2 Brown-headed Parrot 2 Lesser Sandplovern n 2 Red-knobbed Coot 2 Swift Ternn 2 Red-headed Lovebird 2 Greater Sandplovern 2 Lesser Crested Tern 2 Fischer’s Lovebird 2 Caspian Plover n Cranes 2 Sandwich Tern 2 Yellow-collared Lovebird 2 Pacific Golden Plovern A 2 Black-naped TernA 2 Lilian’s Lovebird 2 Wattled Cranen 2 Grey Plover 2 Roseate Tern 2 Grey Crowned Cranes 2 Wattled Plover 2 Common Tern 2 White-crowned Plover 2 White-cheeked Tern 2 Black-headed Plover Finfoots 2 Bridled Tern 2 Blacksmith Plover Turacos & Go-Away 2 Sooty Tern 2 African Finfoot 2 Spur-winged Plover Birds 2 Little TernA 2 Brown-chested Plovern 2 Saunder’s Terns Bustards 2 Senegal Plover 2 Whiskered Tern 2 Black-winged Plover 2 Denham’s Bustard 2 White-winged Ternn n 2 Crowned Plover 2 Kori Bustard 2 Brown Noddyn Black-billed Turaco 2 Long-toed Plover 2 2 Buff-crested Bustard 2 Livingstone’s Turaco 2 White-bellied Bustard s Skimmers 2 Schalow’s Turaco 2 Black-bellied Bustard Snipes, Godwits, Sand- 2 Fischer’s Turaco 2 Hartlaub’s Bustard pipers etc 2 African Skimmern 2 Hartlaub’s Turaco n 2 Common Snipe 2 Purple-crested Turaco Jacanas 2 African Snipe Sandgrouses 2 Ross’s Turaco 2 Jacana 2 Great Snipe 2 Great Blue Turaco 2 Lesser Jacana 2 Jack Snipe 2 Chestnut-bellied 2 Eastern Grey Plantain 2 Black-tailed Godwit Sandgrouse Eater Black-faced Sandgrouse 2 Grey Go-away Birdn Painted Snipes 2 Bar-tailed Godwit 2 2 Whimbrel 2 Yellow-throated 2 Bare-faced Go-away Bird 2 Painted Snipe 2 Curlew Sandgrouse 2 White-bellied Go-away Bird 2 Cuckoos 2 Gabon Nightjar 2 Southern Carmine 2 White-headed Barbet 2 Slender-tailed Nightjar Bee-eaters 2 Black-backed Barbet 2 Great Spotted Cuckoo n 2 Standard-winged 2 Double-toothed Barbet 2 Jacobin Cuckoo A n n Nightjar Rollers 2 Crested Barbet 2 Levaillant’s Cuckoo 2 Pennant-winged Nightjar 2 Red & Yellow Barbet 2 Thick-billed Cuckoo 2 Eurasian Roller d’Arnaud’s Barbet 2 Red-chested Cuckoo Swifts 2 Lilac-breasted Roller 2 Usambiro Barbet 2 Black Cuckoo Racket-tailed Rollern n 2 2 Common Cuckoo 2 Scarce Swift 2 Rufous-crowned Roller n Honeyguides 2 African Cuckoo 2 Mottled Spinetail Broad-billed Roller n 2 2 Asian Lesser Cuckoo 2 B¨ohm’s Spinetail 2 Eastern Honeybird 2 Madagascar Cuckoos Palm Swift 2 Wood Hoopoes 2 Wahlberg’s Honeybird 2 Dusky Long-tailed 2 Alpine Swift Scaly-throated A 2 Cuckoo 2 Mottled Swift 2 Green Wood Hoopoe Honeyguide 2 Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo 2 Nyanza Swift 2 Violet Wood HoopoeA 2 Greater Honeyguiden A 2 Emerald Cuckoo 2 Forbes-Watson’s Swift 2 White-headed Wood 2 Lesser Honeyguide 2 Klaas’ Cuckoo 2 Eurasian Swift Hoopoe 2 Least Honeyguide 2 Didric Cuckoo 2 Black Swift 2 Forest Wood HoopoeA 2 Pallid Honeyguide 2 Little Swift 2 Common Scimitarbilln Horus Swift n Coucals 2 2 Abyssinian Scimitarbill Woodpeckers 2 White-rumped Swift 2 Yellowbill 2 Red-throated Wryneck 2 Black Coucal Hoopoes Mousebirds 2 Nubian Woodpecker 2 Blue-headed Coucal 2 African Hoopoes 2 Bennett’s Woodpecker 2 Coppery-tailed Coucal 2 Speckled Mousebird 2 Eurasian Hoopoe 2 Speckle-throated 2 Senegal Coucal 2 White-headed Mousebird Woodpeckers 2 White-browed Coucal 2 Blue-naped Mousebird 2 Golden-tailed Woodpecker 2 Burchell’s Coucals Hornbills 2 Red-faced Mousebird 2 Mombasa Woodpeckers 2 Red-billed Hornbill 2 Little Spotted Woodpecker Barn Owls Trogons 2 Ruaha Hornbills 2 Fine-banded Woodpecker 2 Yellow-billed Hornbill 2 Barn Owl 2 Narina Trogonn 2 Buff-spotted Woodpecker 2 Von der Decken’s Hornbill 2 Grass Owln 2 Bar-tailed Trogon 2 Brown-eared Woodpecker 2 Pied HornbillA 2 Cardinal Woodpecker 2 Crowned Hornbill 2 Stierling’s Woodpecker Owls Kingfishers 2 Pale-billed Hornbill 2 Grey Woodpeckern 2 Sokoke Scops OwlA 2 Malachite Kingfishern 2 Grey Hornbill 2 Grey-headed Woodpeckers 2 Eurasian Scops Owln 2 Half-collared Kingfisher 2 Trumpeter