Birds seen near Ndutu Safari Lodge

Many people like to have bird lists, so that they know what they are likely to see, and so they can make notes of what they have seen. Here is our list of birds seen within about 20 kilometres of Ndutu. A printed copy awaits you in your room at Ndutu.

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Ostrich
Black Necked Grebe
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe

White Pelican
Pink Backed Pelican

Long-Tailed Cormorant
Hammerkop
Little Egret
Cattle Egret
Great White Egret
Yellow Billed Egret
Grey Heron
Black Headed Heron
Night Heron
Rufous Bellied Heron
Squacco Heron
Dwarf Bittern

European White Stork
Yellow Billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Abdim's Stork
Saddle Billed Stork
Woolly Necked Stork
Open Billed Stork
Black Stork
Sacred Ibis
Glossy Ibis
African Spoonbill
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo

Southern Pochard
Cape Teal
Hottentot Teal
Shoveler
Knobbilled Duck
Maccoa Duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Red Billed Teal
Yellow Billed Duck
Garganey
Egyptian Goose
Spurwing Goose

Secretary Bird
Lappet Faced Vulture
Ruppell's Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
White Headed Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White Backed Vulture
Osprey
Fish Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Black Chested Snake Eagle
Brown Snake Eagle
Martial Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Augur Buzzard
Common Buzzard
Grasshopper Buzzard
African Hawk Eagle
Bateleur
Long Crested Eagle
Black Shouldered Kite
Black Kite
Bat Hawk
African Harrier Hawk
Little Sparrow Hawk
Eurasian Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
Gabar Goshawk
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Pale Chanting Goshawk
Pygmy Falcon
Lanner Falcon
Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
White eyed Kestrel
Grey Kestrel

Button Quail
Harlequin Quail
Quail Plover
Crested Francolin
Coqui Francolin
Greybreasted Spurfowl
Yellow necked Spurfowl
Helmeted Guineafowl

Kori Bustard
White bellied Bustard
Black bellied Bustard
Hartlaub's Bustard
Denham's Bustard
Buff Crested Bustard
Crowned Crane

Black Crake
African Water Rail
Red knobbed Coot

Kittlitz's Plover
Ringed Plover
Blacksmith Plover
Crowned Plover
Blackwinged Plover
Caspian Plover
Three banded Plover
Wattled Plover
Chestnut Banded Plover
Senegal Plover
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Curlew
Whimbrel
Spotted red Shank
Green Shank
Avocet
Little Stint
Black-winged Stilt
Painted Snipe
Great Snipe
African Snipe

Ruff
Red Necked Phalarope

Common Pratincole
Spotted Thick Knee
Temminck's Courser
Heuglins Courser
Two Banded Courser
Violet Tipped Courser

Black Headed Gull
Grey Headed Gull
Gull Billed Tern
Caspian Tern
White Winged Black Tern
Whiskered Tern

Yellow Throated Sandgrouse
Chestnut Bellied Sandgrouse
Black Faced Sandgrouse
Ring Necked Dove
Mourning Dove
Laughing Dove
Namaqua Dove
Red Eyed Dove
Emerald Spotted Wood Dove
Speckled Pigeon

Black Cuckoo
Eurasian Cuckoo
Klaas Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Black & White Cuckoo
Didric Cuckoo

White Browed Coucal
Black Coucal

African Hoopoe
Green Wood Hoopoe
Scimitarbill
Abyssinian Scimitarbill

Speckled Mousebird
Blue-Naped Mousebird

Fischer's Lovebird

Lilac Breasted Roller
Broad Billed Roller
European Roller
Rufous Crowned Roller

Grey Headed Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Pygmy Kingfisher

Little Bee-Eater
European Bee-Eater
Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater

Von der Decken's Hornbill
Red Billed Hornbill
Ground Hornbill
Grey Hornbill

African Scops Owl
White Faced Scops Owl
Verreaux's Eagle Owl
African Wood Owl
African Marsh Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl
Pearl Spotted Owlet

Slender Tailed Nightjar

Little Swift
Palm Swift
European Swift
Nyanza Swift
Mottled Swift
Horus Swift

Red & Yellow Barbet
Usambiro Barbet
Red-fronted barbet
Red-fronted tinkerbird

Greater honeyguide

Grey Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker

Chestnut Backed Sparrow Lark
Fischer's Sparrow Lark
Northern White Tailed Lark
Flappet Lark
Rufous-naped Lark
Red-capped Lark
Fawn-coloured Lark
Singing Bush Lark
Grassland Pipit
Red throated Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
African pied Wagtail

Rosy Breasted Longclaw
Yellow Throated Longclaw

Wiretailed Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Grey-rumped Swallow
European Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Banded Martin
African Rock Martin
African Sand Martin
House Martin

Golden Oriole
Black headed Oriole

Rufous Chatterer
Black Lored Babbler

Common Rock Thrush
White Browed Scrub Robin
Isabelline Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Northern Wheatear
Schalow's Wheatear

Common Drongo
Grey Flycatcher
Chinspot Batis
Paradise Flycatcher
Northern black Flycatcher
S.African Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Silverbird
Chinspot Batis

Red faced Crombec
Banded Parisoma
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Olivaceous Warbler
Barred Warbler
Yellow breasted Apalis
Yellow bellied Eremomela
Green-capped Eremomela
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Buff-bellied Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Spotted morning Thrush
Tawny flanked Prinia
Winding Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Pectoral-patch Cisticola
Desert Cisticola

Fiscal Shrike
Magpie Shrike
Taita Fiscal
Red-backed Shrike
White-crowned Shrike
Grey-backed Fiscal
Lesser Grey Shrike
Black-headed Tchagra
Brown-headed Tchagra
Slate-coloured Boubou
Bru Bru

Variable Sunbird
Scarlet chested Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Little purple-banded Sunbird

African penduline Tit
Red throated Tit

Yellow rumped Seedeater

Yellow-fronted Canary
White-bellied Canary

African Silverbill
Grey-headed Silverbill
Quailfinch
Black faced Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Common Waxbill
Red-billed Firefinch
Purple Grenadeir
Cut-throat
Blue-capped Cordon bleu
Red-cheeked Cordon bleu

Strawtailed Whydah
Steel Blue Whydah
Pintailed Whydah

Rufous Sparrow
Chestnut Sparrow
Grey-Headed Sparrow

Yellow Bishop
Black-Winged Red Bishop

White-Winged Widow Bird

Red-Billed Quelea
Red Billed Buffalo Weaver
Rufous Tailed Weaver
Black-Headed Weaver
Lesser Masked Weaver
Viteline Weaver
Speckled Fronted Weaver
White Headed Buffalo Weaver
Chestnut Weaver
Parasitic Weaver

Violet Backed Starling
Superb Starling
Hildebrandt's Starling
Wattled Starling
Ruppell's Long Tailed Starling

Red-Billed Oxpecker
Yellow-Billed Oxpecker

Pied Crow
White Neck Raven
Cape Rook



new in March 2002: Jack snipe, Eurasian stone curlew and short-eared owl