Birds of Chad
273 species recorded at 2 public birding hotspots.
Most recorded in November
Namaqua DoveOena capensis
African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
HamerkopScopus umbretta
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephalaMost recorded
Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
Northern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicus
Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
Black-headed HeronArdea melanocephala
African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
Greater Blue-eared StarlingLamprotornis chalybaeus
Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
Black Crowned CraneBalearica pavoninaHotspots with the most records
- Zakouma NPGuéra Region263 species
- Hotel du ChariN'Djamena56 species
All species recorded · 273
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Clapperton's Spurfowl Pternistis clappertoni
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Black Crowned Crane Balearica pavonina
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Black Stork Ciconia nigra
- White Stork Ciconia ciconia
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocourii
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Black-breasted Barbet Pogonornis rolleti
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Little Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos elachus
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Grey-headed Batis Batis orientalis
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons
- Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Sun Lark Galerida modesta
- Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia