Malawi · Southern Region
Liwonde National Park – Mvuu
423 species and 15,644 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–November, with up to 202 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
Meves's StarlingLamprotornis mevesii
White-browed Sparrow-WeaverPlocepasser mahali
Collared Palm ThrushCichladusa arquata
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Great EgretArdea alba
African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
Southern Red-billed HornbillTockus rufirostris
Emerald-spotted Wood DoveTurtur chalcospilos
Broad-billed RollerEurystomus glaucurus
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Liwonde National Park9 km436 species
- Zomba Plateau56 km242 species
All 423 species recorded here
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Meves's Starling Lamprotornis mevesii
- Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Southern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus rufirostris
- Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer diffusus
- Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Grey Go-away-bird Crinifer concolor
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Terrestrial Brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Livingstone's Flycatcher Erythrocercus livingstonei
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- African Skimmer Rynchops flavirostris
- Speckle-throated Woodpecker Campethera scriptoricauda
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Black-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira peltata
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii
- Brown-headed Parrot Poicephalus cryptoxanthus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- White-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris talatala
- Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens
- Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Arnot's Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Red-faced Mousebird Urocolius indicus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Bearded Scrub Robin Tychaedon quadrivirgata
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Racket-tailed Roller Coracias spatulatus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Retz's Helmetshrike Prionops retzii
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Brown-breasted Barbet Pogonornis melanopterus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Black-collared Barbet Lybius torquatus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Green-capped Eremomela Eremomela scotops
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Green Malkoha Ceuthmochares australis
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Kurrichane Thrush Turdus libonyana
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Eastern Nicator Nicator gularis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow Gymnoris superciliaris
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Jameson's Firefinch Lagonosticta rhodopareia
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Rufous-winged Cisticola Cisticola galactotes
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Grey-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris
- Lesser Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus gracilirostris
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Eastern Golden Weaver Ploceus subaureus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus leucomelas
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Stierling's Wren-Warbler Calamonastes stierlingi
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Ludwig's Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris ludovicensis
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- African Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- Pale Batis Batis soror
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Swainson's Spurfowl Pternistis swainsonii
- Burnt-necked Eremomela Eremomela usticollis
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Stierling's Woodpecker Dendropicos stierlingi
- White-throated Swallow Hirundo albigularis
- African Pitta Pitta angolensis
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Black-headed Apalis Apalis melanocephala
- Black-eared Seedeater Crithagra mennelli
- Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- White-eared Barbet Stactolaema leucotis
- Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Miombo Rock Thrush Monticola angolensis
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Wood Pipit Anthus nyassae
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Striped Pipit Anthus lineiventris
- Southern Citril Crithagra hyposticta
- Montane Widowbird Euplectes psammacromius
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Pale-billed Hornbill Lophoceros pallidirostris
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Boulder Chat Pinarornis plumosus
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Whyte's Barbet Stactolaema whytii
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Orange Ground Thrush Geokichla gurneyi
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Eastern Miombo Sunbird Cinnyris manoensis
- Neddicky Cisticola fulvicapilla
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Wattled Crane Grus carunculata
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Brown Parisoma Curruca lugens
- Malawi Batis Batis dimorpha
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis
- White-winged Black Tit Melaniparus leucomelas
- Rufous-bellied Tit Melaniparus rufiventris
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- Churring Cisticola Cisticola njombe
- Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Miombo Scrub Robin Tychaedon barbata
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Liwonde National Park – Mvuu?
September–November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 202 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Liwonde National Park – Mvuu?
423 species, from 15,644 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Liwonde National Park – Mvuu in November?
The most recorded in November: Lilac-breasted Roller, African Fish Eagle, Common Sandpiper, Meves's Starling and White-browed Sparrow-Weaver.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.