Tanzanian Birds
What a few weeks with a good bird guide can turn up
February 2014
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Wow! Birds! A great reason to visit Tanzania.
One of each.
If I get around to it, maybe links to more.
We visited only the northern part of the country;
we didn't visit the coast, and nothing in the more humid south.
And we were only there three weeks.
So there are a lot of birds we didn't even have a chance of seeing.
Our sincerest thanks to our superb bird guide,
Douglas Duncan
of
Dorobo Safaris.
We saw over 300 species of birds during our three weeks in Tanzania,
but we didn't get photos of many of them.
Ostriches
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| Common Ostrich |
Herons and Egrets
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| Black Headed Heron |
Hamerkop
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| Hamerkop |
Storks
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| Saddle Billed Stork |
Black Stork |
Open Billed Stork |
Maribou Stork |
White Stork |
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| Abdims Stork |
Yellow Billed Stork (with Sacred Ibises) |
Ibises
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| Hadada Ibis |
Sacred Ibis |
Glossy Ibis |
Flamingos
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| Lesser Flamingo |
Greater Flamingo |
Ducks and Geese
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| Cape Teal |
Egyptian Goose |
Kites
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| Black Shouldered Kite |
Secretary Bird
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| Secretary Bird |
Vultures and Buzzards
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| Augur Buzzard |
African White Backed Vulture |
Lappet Faced Vulture |
Rueppells Griffon Vulture |
White Headed Vulture |
Eagles
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| Brown Snake Eagle |
Tawny Eagle |
Steppe Eagle |
Bateleur Eagle |
Black Chested Snake Eagle |
Long Crested Eagle |
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| African Fish Eagle |
Other Raptors
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| African Harrier Hawk |
Eastern Chanting Goshawk |
Lanner Falcon |
Dark Chanting Goshawk |
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| Pygmy Falcon |
Lesser Kestrel |
Guineafowl, Frankolins, and Spurfowl
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| Helmeted Guineafowl |
Coqui Frankolin |
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| Yellow Necked Spurfowl |
Red Necked Spurfowl |
Grey Breasted Spurfowl |
Crakes, Rails, Coots and Moorhens
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| African Jacana |
Common Moorhen |
Cranes
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| Grey Crowned Crane |
Bustards
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| Kori Bustard (displaying) |
White Bellied Bustard |
Stints and Sandpipers
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| Common Greenshank |
Temminick's Stint |
Wood Sandpiper |
Marsh Sandpiper |
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| Green Sandpiper |
Other Shorebirds
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| Ruff |
Water Thickknee |
Two Banded Courser |
Crowned Lapwing |
Blacksmith Lapwing |
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| Long Toed Lapwing |
Pied Avocet |
Sandgrouse
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| Yellow Necked Sand Grouse |
Pigeons and Doves
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| Ring Necked Dove |
Namaqua Dove |
Parrots and Lovebirds
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| Yellow Collared Lovebird |
Fishers Lovebird |
Turacos
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| Hartlaub's Turaco |
GoAway Birds
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| White Bellied GoAway Bird |
Cuckoos and Coucals
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| White Browed Coucal |
Black Coucal |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo |
Black And White Cuckoo |
Diederik Cuckoo |
African Cuckoo |
Mousebirds
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| Speckled Mousebird |
Blue Naped Mousebird |
Trogons
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| Bar Tailed Trogon |
Kingfishers
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| Grey Headed Kingfisher |
Woodland Kingfisher |
Striped Kingfisher |
African Pygmy Kingfisher |
Brown Hooded Kingfisher |
Bee Eaters
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| White Fronted Eater |
European Bee Eater |
Northern Carmine Bee Eater |
Little Bee Eater |
Rollers
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| Lilac Breasted Roller |
European Roller |
Rufous Crowned Roller |
Hoopoes and Scimitarbills
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| Abyssinian Scimitarbill |
Hornbills
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| Von Der Decken's Hornbill |
Red Billed Hornbill |
African Grey Hornbill |
Southern Ground Hornbill |
Silvery Cheeked Hornbill |
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| Crowned Hornbill |
Barbets
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| Usambiro Barbet |
Brown Breasted Barbet |
Woodpeckers
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| Cardinal Woodpecker |
Xxx Grey Woodpecker |
Bearded Woodpecker |
Larks
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| Fishers Sparrow Lark |
Martins and Swallows
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| Lesser Striped Swallow |
Xxx Barn Swallow |
Wagtails, Pipits and Longclaws
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| Grassland Pipit |
Yellow Throated Longclaw |
Bulbuls and Greenbuls
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| Common Bulbul |
Robins, Chats, Thrushes and Wheatears
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| White Starred Robin |
Common Stone Chat |
Spotted Morning Thrush |
Common Rock Thrush |
Flycatchers and Paradise Flycatchers
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| African Paradise Flycatcher |
Silverbird |
Sunbirds
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| Collared Sunbird |
Scarlet Chested Sunbird |
Malachite Sunbird |
Purple Banded Sunbird |
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| Variable Sunbird |
Shrikes, Boubous, Tchagras and Puffbacks
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| Common Fiscal Shrike |
Long Tailed Fiscal Shrike |
Taita Fiscal Shrike |
Slate Coloured Boubou |
Black Backed Puffback |
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| Isabelline Shrike |
Drongos and Crows
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| Fork Tailed Drongo |
Oxpeckers
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| Yellow Billed Oxpecker |
Starlings
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| Superb Starling |
Ashy Starling |
Weavers
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| Red Headed Weaver |
Chestnut Weaver |
Red Billed Buffalo Weaver |
White Headed Buffalo Weaver |
Speckle Fronted Weaver |
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| Vitelline Masked Weaver |
Rufous Tailed Weaver |
Baglafecht Weaver |
Black Headed Weaver |
Queleas
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| Red Billed Quelea |
Widowbirds and Bishops
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| Southern Red Bishop |
Jacksons Widowbird |
Fan Tailed Widowbird |
White Winged Widowbird |
Negrofinches, Pytilias, Crimsonwings, Cordon Bleus and Firefinches
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| Grey Headed Negrofinch |
Green Winged Pytilia |
Red Cheeked Cordon Bleu |
Blue Capped Cordon Bleu |
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| Red Billed Fire Finch |
Purple Grenadier |
Waxbills and Mannikins
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| Black Faced Waxbill |
Black and White Mannikin |
Paradise-Whydahs and Whydahs
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| Eastern Paradise Wydah |
Pin Tailed Wydah |
Canaries and Seedeaters
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| Cinnamon Breasted Rock Bunting |
White Bellied Canary |
Xxx Yellow Fronted Canary |
Unidentified
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| Xxx Eagle |
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Xxx Eagle |
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| Xxx Frankolin |
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