Tanzania · Arusha Region
Gibbs Farm
403 species and 8,146 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March, with up to 104 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht
Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
Golden-winged SunbirdDrepanorhynchus reichenowi
White-tailed Blue FlycatcherElminia albicauda
Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustus
Green-backed CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
Black-backed PuffbackDryoscopus cubla
Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
Bronze SunbirdNectarinia kilimensis
White-eyed Slaty FlycatcherMelaenornis fischeri
White-browed Robin-ChatCossypha heuglini
African Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone viridis
Thick-billed SeedeaterCrithagra burtoni58 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 403 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ngorongoro Crater18 km614 species
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Lake Magadi19 km357 species
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge23 km355 species
- Lake Manyara NP23 km585 species
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Olduvai Gorge49 km360 species
- Lake Manyara NP51 km410 species
All 403 species recorded here
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Southern Citril Crithagra hyposticta
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Brown-headed Apalis Apalis alticola
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Rüppell's Robin-Chat Cossypha semirufa
- Ethiopian White-eye Zosterops poliogastrus
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi
- Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris mediocris
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Abyssinian Thrush Turdus abyssinicus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Tacazze Sunbird Nectarinia tacazze
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Bar-throated Apalis Apalis thoracica
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Moustached Tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax
- Fischer's Lovebird Agapornis fischeri
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- African Hill Babbler Sylvia abyssinica
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Abyssinian Crimsonwing Cryptospiza salvadorii
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba delegorguei
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus
- Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda
- Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa
- Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Brown Parisoma Curruca lugens
- Pallid Honeyguide Indicator meliphilus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
- Cabanis's Greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
- Black-headed Apalis Apalis melanocephala
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- Cinnamon Bracken Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
- Southern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra buchanani
- White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola Cisticola brunnescens
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana
- Brown-breasted Barbet Pogonornis melanopterus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus
- Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus
- Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Grey-breasted Spurfowl Pternistis rufopictus
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Olive-headed Greenbul Arizelocichla striifacies
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Scarlet-tufted Sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill Tockus ruahae
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Gibbs Farm?
March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 104 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Gibbs Farm?
403 species, from 8,146 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Gibbs Farm in November?
The most recorded in November: Common Bulbul, Baglafecht Weaver, Speckled Mousebird, Golden-winged Sunbird and White-tailed Blue Flycatcher.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.