Tanzania · Arusha Region
Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Lake Ndutu
407 species and 12,505 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February–March, with up to 203 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Superb StarlingLamprotornis superbus
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Augur BuzzardButeo augur
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus
Swahili SparrowPasser suahelicus
Marabou StorkLeptoptilos crumenifer
Fischer's Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucopareia
Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
Lesser FlamingoPhoeniconaias minor
Double-banded CourserSmutsornis africanus
Crowned LapwingVanellus coronatus
Fischer's LovebirdAgapornis fischeri
Hildebrandt's StarlingLamprotornis hildebrandtiSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ndutu Safari Lodge2 km450 species
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ndutu3 km461 species
- Serengeti NP – Naabi Hill Gate19 km366 species
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Olduvai Gorge39 km360 species
- Serengeti NP54 km487 species
- Serengeti NP – Serengeti Sopa Lodge57 km394 species
All 407 species recorded here
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Grey-breasted Spurfowl Pternistis rufopictus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Fischer's Lovebird Agapornis fischeri
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Cape Teal Anas capensis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Chestnut-banded Plover Anarhynchus pallidus
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda
- Rufous-naped Lark Corypha africana
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea
- Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola Cisticola brunnescens
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Cape Crow Corvus capensis
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Short-tailed Lark Spizocorys fremantlii
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Streaky Seedeater Crithagra striolata
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Somali Short-toed Lark Alaudala somalica
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- White-tailed Lark Mirafra albicauda
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Yellow-crowned Canary Serinus flavivertex
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Grey-capped Warbler Eminia lepida
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Southern Citril Crithagra hyposticta
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Rosy-throated Longclaw Macronyx ameliae
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Spot-flanked Barbet Tricholaema lacrymosa
- Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- White-tailed Blue Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Grey-crested Helmetshrike Prionops poliolophus
- Trilling Cisticola Cisticola woosnami
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Golden-winged Sunbird Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis
- Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Schalow's Turaco Tauraco schalowi
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Hunter's Cisticola Cisticola hunteri
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- White-headed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne albiceps
- Mocking Cliff Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Brown-headed Apalis Apalis alticola
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Mountain Buzzard Buteo oreophilus
- Caspian Plover Anarhynchus asiaticus
- African Olive Pigeon Columba arquatrix
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Grey-rumped Swallow Pseudhirundo griseopyga
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill Tockus ruahae
- Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Lake Ndutu?
February–March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 203 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Lake Ndutu?
407 species, from 12,505 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Lake Ndutu in November?
The most recorded in November: Superb Starling, Helmeted Guineafowl, Augur Buzzard, Ring-necked Dove and Blacksmith Lapwing.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.