Bird AlbumDjibouti
Djibouti City – Ambouli estuary
81 species and 502 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February, with up to 20 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Camp Lemonnier4 km132 species
- La Siesta plage5 km57 species
- Tidal Flats near Turtle Island6 km115 species
- Djibouti City – Kempinski Hotel6 km78 species
- Douda WTP7 km103 species
- Douda Mangroves7 km85 species
All 81 species recorded here
- House Crow Corvus splendens
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei
- Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Somali Sparrow Passer castanopterus
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Nile Valley Sunbird Hedydipna metallica
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Sooty Gull Ichthyaetus hemprichii
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Crab-plover Dromas ardeola
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi
- White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa
- Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Djibouti City – Ambouli estuary?
February. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 20 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Djibouti City – Ambouli estuary?
81 species, from 502 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.