Bird AlbumTanzania · Manyara Region
Tarangire NP – Silale Swamp
395 species and 10,312 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February–April and November, with up to 171 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Common OstrichStruthio camelus
Superb StarlingLamprotornis superbus
Long-toed LapwingVanellus crassirostris
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
White-headed Buffalo WeaverDinemellia dinemelli
Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Wattled StarlingCreatophora cinerea
Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
African Fish EagleIcthyophaga vocifer
White-faced Whistling DuckDendrocygna viduata157 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 395 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Tarangire NP16 km525 species
- Tarangire NP – Tarangire Safari Lodge30 km402 species
- Tarangire NP – River Loop30 km326 species
- Tarangire NP – Entrance Gate36 km374 species
- Lake Manyara NP45 km410 species
- Lake Manyara NP72 km585 species
All 395 species recorded here
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Blacksmith Lapwing Vanellus armatus
- White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus
- Rattling Cisticola Cisticola chiniana
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk Melierax poliopterus
- Crested Francolin Ortygornis sephaena
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni
- D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Northern Pied Babbler Turdoides hypoleuca
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythroryncha
- Crowned Lapwing Vanellus coronatus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- White-bellied Go-away-bird Crinifer leucogaster
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus
- Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Slate-colored Boubou Laniarius funebris
- Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos
- Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris
- Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Fawn-colored Lark Calendulauda africanoides
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Blue-billed Teal Spatula hottentota
- Rufous-bellied Heron Ardeola rufiventris
- Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi
- Coqui Francolin Campocolinus coqui
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Bearded Woodpecker Chloropicus namaquus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Nubian Woodpecker Campethera nubica
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Eastern Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos spodocephalus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Banded Martin Neophedina cincta
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Red-billed Teal Anas erythrorhyncha
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Black-headed Oriole Oriolus larvatus
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucopareia
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Water Thick-knee Burhinus vermiculatus
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Chestnut Sparrow Passer eminibey
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Arrow-marked Babbler Turdoides jardineii
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster
- Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Double-banded Courser Smutsornis africanus
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola Cisticola brunnescens
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Fischer's Lovebird Agapornis fischeri
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Desert Cisticola Cisticola aridulus
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana
- Olive Bee-eater Merops superciliosus
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Black-backed Puffback Dryoscopus cubla
- Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Angola Swallow Hirundo angolensis
- Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Black-lored Babbler Turdoides sharpei
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Sentinel Lark Corypha athi
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Chinspot Batis Batis molitor
- Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
- Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Temminck's Courser Cursorius temminckii
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Hildebrandt's Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- White-backed Duck Thalassornis leuconotus
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow Gymnoris pyrgita
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Grey-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina
- Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Maccoa Duck Oxyura maccoa
- African Rail Rallus caerulescens
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
- African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
- Three-banded Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher Halcyon albiventris
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
- Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike Rhodophoneus cruentus
- Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates
- Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
- Rüppell's Starling Lamprotornis purpuroptera
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Southern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis granti
- Cape Robin-Chat Dessonornis caffer
- Amur Falcon Falco amurensis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Shelley's Francolin Scleroptila shelleyi
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus
- Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus
- Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Yellow-billed Duck Anas undulata
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae
- Spotted Eagle-Owl Bubo africanus
- Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Stout Cisticola Cisticola robustus
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo
- White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Holub's Golden Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli
- Marsh Owl Asio capensis
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum
- Golden-breasted Bunting Emberiza flaviventris
- Sooty Falcon Falco concolor
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- African Black Swift Apus barbatus
- Horus Swift Apus horus
- Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Tarangire NP – Silale Swamp?
February–April and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 171 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Tarangire NP – Silale Swamp?
395 species, from 10,312 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Tarangire NP – Silale Swamp in November?
The most recorded in November: Squacco Heron, African Jacana, Egyptian Goose, Common Ostrich and Superb Starling.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.