Bird AlbumMozambique · Maputo
Bela Vista Wetlands
242 species and 12,964 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January, May–June and September–November, with up to 122 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
Grey-headed GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalus
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus
Little EgretEgretta garzetta
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
Yellow-throated LongclawMacronyx croceus
Cape TealAnas capensis
Little StintCalidris minutaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Maputo National Park16 km281 species
- Maputo – Botanic Gardens, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane42 km132 species
- Salinas Zacharia45 km135 species
- Maputo – North Maputo Bay Tidal Flats47 km148 species
- Macaneta – Wetland, dune forests and coast66 km334 species
- Mlawula NR71 km215 species
All 242 species recorded here
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- White-fronted Plover Anarhynchus marginatus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Cape Shoveler Spatula smithii
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Chestnut-banded Plover Anarhynchus pallidus
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Cape Starling Lamprotornis nitens
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Southern Boubou Laniarius ferrugineus
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Grey Sunbird Cyanomitra veroxii
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Lemon-breasted Canary Crithagra citrinipectus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- White-throated Robin-Chat Dessonornis humeralis
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- Pale-crowned Cisticola Cisticola cinnamomeus
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
- Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- House Crow Corvus splendens
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Rock Dove Columba livia
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Bela Vista Wetlands?
January, May–June and September–November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 122 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Bela Vista Wetlands?
242 species, from 12,964 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Bela Vista Wetlands in November?
The most recorded in November: Grey Heron, Eurasian Whimbrel, Zitting Cisticola, Yellow-billed Stork and Grey-headed Gull.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.