Chad · Guéra Region
Zakouma NP
263 species and 4,005 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March, with up to 142 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Namaqua DoveOena capensis
African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
Northern Red-billed HornbillTockus erythrorhynchus
Red-billed QueleaQuelea quelea
Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
Yellow-billed StorkMycteria ibis
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytes
HamerkopScopus umbretta
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Fork-tailed DrongoDicrurus adsimilis
Grey-headed KingfisherHalcyon leucocephalaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 263 species recorded here
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus
- African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Black Crowned Crane Balearica pavonina
- Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Common Ostrich Struthio camelus
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Clapperton's Spurfowl Pternistis clappertoni
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Red-pate Cisticola Cisticola ruficeps
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Iduna pallida
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Grey-headed Batis Batis orientalis
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens
- Little Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos elachus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocourii
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Black-breasted Barbet Pogonornis rolleti
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Buff-bellied Warbler Phyllolais pulchella
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Sennar Penduline Tit Anthoscopus punctifrons
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca
- Sun Lark Galerida modesta
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
- Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus
- Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Zakouma NP?
March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 142 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Zakouma NP?
263 species, from 4,005 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Zakouma NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Namaqua Dove, African Openbill, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Red-billed Quelea and Long-tailed Glossy 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.