Bird AlbumCentral African Republic · Sangha-Mbaéré
Sangha Lodge
258 species and 2,517 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: November–December, with up to 79 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
Blue-headed Wood DoveTurtur brehmeri
Gosling's ApalisApalis goslingi
Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
Green HyliaHylia prasina
Lowland Sooty BoubouLaniarius leucorhynchus
Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
Klaas's CuckooChrysococcyx klaas
Yellow-browed CamaropteraCamaroptera superciliaris
Guinea TuracoTauraco persa
Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolorSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Doli Lodge, Dsanga Sanga8 km112 species
- Dzanga-Sangha NP – Dzanga Bai15 km159 species
- Dzanga-Sangha NP – Bai Hokou23 km83 species
All 258 species recorded here
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Gosling's Apalis Apalis goslingi
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Red-eyed Puffback Dryoscopus senegalensis
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis xanthogaster
- Yellow-eyed Bristlebill Bleda ugandae
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Spot-breasted Ibis Bostrychia rara
- Red-crowned Malimbe Malimbus coronatus
- Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- White-bearded Greenbul Criniger ndussumensis
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- West African Batis Batis occulta
- Black-collared Lovebird Agapornis swindernianus
- Bare-cheeked Trogon Apaloderma aequatoriale
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Xavier's Greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri
- Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita
- Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus rufus
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Sjöstedt's Greenbul Baeopogon clamans
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis
- Vermiculated Fishing Owl Scotopelia bouvieri
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Eastern Bearded Greenbul Criniger chloronotus
- Plumed Guineafowl Guttera plumifera
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Bates's Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Lyre-tailed Honeyguide Melichneutes robustus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Black-headed Waxbill Estrilda atricapilla
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Yellow-footed Flycatcher Muscicapa sethsmithi
- Black Guineafowl Agelastes niger
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei
- Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk Aerospiza castanilius
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
- Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri
- Forbes's Plover Thinornis forbesi
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Dja River Scrub Warbler Bradypterus grandis
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Grey-necked Rockfowl Picathartes oreas
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Bates's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone batesi
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- White-crested Tiger Heron Tigriornis leucolopha
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike Prionops rufiventris
- Woodhouse's Antpecker Parmoptila woodhousei
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Sandy Scops Owl Otus icterorhynchus
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Sangha Lodge?
November–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 79 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Sangha Lodge?
258 species, from 2,517 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Sangha Lodge in November?
The most recorded in November: Western Oriole, Blue-headed Wood Dove, Gosling's Apalis, Great Blue Turaco and Blue-spotted Wood Dove.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.