Cameroon · Adamawa
Ngaoundaba Ranch
431 species and 6,788 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March–April, with up to 225 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Speckled MousebirdColius striatus
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Senegal CoucalCentropus senegalensis
Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
White-crested TuracoTauraco leucolophus
Green-headed SunbirdCyanomitra verticalis
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
Purple HeronArdea purpurea
Yellow-gorgeted GreenbulAtimastillas flavicollisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 431 species recorded here
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- White-collared Starling Grafisia torquata
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Bamenda Apalis Apalis bamendae
- Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Blackcap Babbler Turdoides reinwardtii
- Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Dybowski's Twinspot Euschistospiza dybowskii
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Grey-winged Robin-Chat Sheppardia polioptera
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Sun Lark Galerida modesta
- Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Heuglin's Wheatear Oenanthe heuglinii
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Pennant-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus vexillarius
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Brown-chested Lapwing Vanellus superciliosus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Gosling's Bunting Emberiza goslingi
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Schlegel's Francolin Campocolinus schlegelii
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi
- Fox Kestrel Falco alopex
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris bouvieri
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra
- African Black Duck Anas sparsa
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- West African Seedeater Crithagra canicapilla
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops
- Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Cameroon Indigobird Vidua camerunensis
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Rwenzori Hill Babbler Sylvia atriceps
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Capuchin Babbler Turdoides atripennis
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Exclamatory Paradise Whydah Vidua interjecta
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- White-fronted Plover Anarhynchus marginatus
- Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Wilson's Indigobird Vidua wilsoni
- Dorst's Cisticola Cisticola guinea
- Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Long-legged Pipit Anthus pallidiventris
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Grey-headed Batis Batis orientalis
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Forbes's Plover Thinornis forbesi
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- Black Guineafowl Agelastes niger
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Adamawa Turtle Dove Streptopelia hypopyrrha
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ngaoundaba Ranch?
March–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 225 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ngaoundaba Ranch?
431 species, from 6,788 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ngaoundaba Ranch in November?
The most recorded in November: Speckled Mousebird, Common Bulbul, Western Plantain-eater, Red-eyed Dove and Senegal Coucal.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.