Bird AlbumTanzania · Manyara Region
Tarangire NP – River Loop
326 species and 7,015 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April, with up to 151 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Ashy StarlingLamprotornis unicolor
Common OstrichStruthio camelus
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Magpie ShrikeUrolestes melanoleucus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Superb StarlingLamprotornis superbus
Red-necked SpurfowlPternistis afer
White-backed VultureGyps africanus
Tawny EagleAquila rapax
BateleurTerathopius ecaudatus
Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicolaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Tarangire NP – Tarangire Safari Lodge3 km402 species
- Tarangire NP – Entrance Gate5 km374 species
- Lake Manyara NP17 km410 species
- Tarangire NP25 km525 species
- Tarangire NP – Silale Swamp30 km395 species
- Lake Manyara NP42 km585 species
All 326 species recorded here
- Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Fischer's Lovebird Agapornis fischeri
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Sentinel Lark Corypha athi
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
- Dusky Turtle Dove Streptopelia lugens
- Black-winged Lapwing Vanellus melanopterus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus
- White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis
- Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris
- Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Sooty Falcon Falco concolor
- White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Crowned Hornbill Lophoceros alboterminatus
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Nyanza Swift Apus niansae
- Mocking Cliff Chat Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Black Cuckooshrike Campephaga flava
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- House Crow Corvus splendens
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Tarangire NP – River Loop?
April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 151 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Tarangire NP – River Loop?
326 species, from 7,015 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Tarangire NP – River Loop in November?
The most recorded in November: Lilac-breasted Roller, Helmeted Guineafowl, Ashy Starling, Common Ostrich and Egyptian Goose.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.