Benin · Atakora Department
Park Pendjari
272 species and 2,687 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March, with up to 118 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Abyssinian RollerCoracias abyssinicus
Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
Double-spurred SpurfowlPternistis bicalcaratus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
Abyssinian Ground HornbillBucorvus abyssinicus
Yellow-billed OxpeckerBuphagus africanus
Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
PiapiacPtilostomus afer
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceus
Four-banded SandgrousePterocles quadricinctus
Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentataSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Park Pendjari – Mare Bali13 km110 species
- Tanagou Falls58 km87 species
All 272 species recorded here
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Gosling's Bunting Emberiza goslingi
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Black Crowned Crane Balearica pavonina
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- Fox Kestrel Falco alopex
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- White-fronted Black Chat Oenanthe albifrons
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Blackcap Babbler Turdoides reinwardtii
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Togo Paradise Whydah Vidua togoensis
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Exclamatory Paradise Whydah Vidua interjecta
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Heuglin's Wheatear Oenanthe heuglinii
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Sun Lark Galerida modesta
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Park Pendjari?
March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 118 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Park Pendjari?
272 species, from 2,687 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Park Pendjari in November?
The most recorded in November: Helmeted Guineafowl, Abyssinian Roller, Spur-winged Lapwing, Double-spurred Spurfowl and Northern Red-billed Hornbill.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.