Birds of Kilimanjaro: The Kilimanjaro has a bird count of about 716 bird species. Most of the bird will be seen in the cultivated zone of the Kilimanjaro. The others will be seen the forested zone of the Kilimanjaro.
There are no birds in the rest of the zones as the conditions are very hard and do not support plant or animal life. Here is the list of the birds you will find on the Kilimanjaro:
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Egyptian Goose
- Southern Pochard Netta
- Garganey Spatula
- Hottentot Teal Spatula
- African Black Duck
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Cape Teal
- Red-billed Teal
- Northern Pintail
- Common Teal
- White-backed Duck
- Spur-winged Goose
- Comb Duck
- African Pygmy Goose
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Crested Guineafowl
- Common Quail
- Harlequin Quail
- Blue Quail
- Hildebrandt’s Francolin
- Scaly Francolin
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Red-necked Spurfowl
- Crested Francolin
- Coqui Francolin
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Greater Flamingo
- Lesser Flamingo
- Little Grebe
- Great Crested Grebe
- Black-necked Grebe
- Rock Dove
- Speckled Pigeon
- African Olive Pigeon
- Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
- Lemon Dove
- Dusky Turtle Dove
- Mourning Collared Dove
- Red-eyed Dove
- Ring-necked Dove
- Laughing Dove
- African Green Pigeon
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove
- Tambourine Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- European Nightjar
- Sombre Nightjar
- Donaldson Smith’s Nightjar
- Fiery-necked Nightjar
- Montane Nightjar
- Plain Nightjar
- Freckled Nightjar
- Slender-tailed Nightjar
- Mozambique Nightjar
- Pennant-winged Nightjar
- Böhm’s Spinetailed Swift
- Scarce Swift
- African Palm Swift
- Alpine Swift
- Mottled Swift
- White-rumped Swift
- Horus Swift
- Little Swift
- Nyanza Swift
- African Swift
- Common Swift
- White-browed Coucal
- African Black Coucal
- Yellowbill
- Jacobin Cuckoo
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Klaas’s Cuckoo
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- Diederick Cuckoo
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo
- Common Cuckoo
- African Cuckoo
- Lesser Cuckoo
- Madagascar Cuckoo
- African Rail
- African Crake
- Corncrake
- Spotted Crake
- Black Crake
- Baillon’s Crake
- Striped Crake
- Purple Swamphen
- Allen’s Gallinule
- Common Moorhen
- Lesser Moorhen
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Buff-spotted Flufftail
- Red-chested Flufftail
- Striped Flufftail
- African Finfoot
- Grey Crowned Crane
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Kori Bustard
- Buff-crested Bustard
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- Purple-crested Turaco
- Hartlaub’s Turaco
- Marabou Stork
- Yellow-billed Stork
- African Openbill
- Black Stork
- Abdim’s Stork
- Woolly-necked Stork
- European White Stork
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Great White Pelican
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Hamerkop
- Little Bittern
- Dwarf Bittern
- White-backed Night Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Striated Heron
- Squacco Heron
- Madagascar Pond Heron
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Grey Heron
- Black-headed Heron
- Goliath Heron
- Purple Heron
- Great Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Black Heron
- Little Egret
- African Sacred Ibis
- African Spoonbill
- Olive Ibis
- Hadada Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- African Darter
- Water Thick-knee
- Spotted Thick-knee
- Pied Avocet
- Black-winged Stilt
- Grey Plover
- Common Ringed Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Three-banded Plover
- White-fronted Plover
- Caspian Plover
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Black-headed Lapwing
- Senegal Lapwing
- Black-winged Lapwing
- Crowned Lapwing
- Greater Painted-snipe
- African Jacana
- Lesser Jacana
- Eurasian Curlew
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Temminck’s Stint
- Sanderling
- Little Stint
- African Snipe
- Great Snipe
- Common Snipe
- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Spotted Redshank
- Common Greenshank
- Common Redshank
- Wood Sandpiper
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Common Buttonquail
- Black-rumped Buttonquail
- Quail-plover
- Double-banded Courser
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Temminck’s Courser
- Collared Pratincole
- Madagascar Pratincole
- African Skimmer
- Gray-hooded Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Gull-billed Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Whiskered Tern
- White-winged Tern
- Secretary-bird
- Osprey
- Black-winged Kite
- European Honey Buzzard
- African Cuckoo Hawk
- African Harrier Hawk
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Bearded Vulture
- Egyptian Vulture
- Black-chested Snake Eagle
- Brown Snake Eagle
- Southern Banded Snake Eagle
- Western Banded Snake Eagle
- White-headed Vulture
- Hooded Vulture
- White-backed Vulture
- Rüppell’s Vulture
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Bat Hawk
- Crowned Eagle
- Martial Eagle
- Long-crested Eagle
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Tawny Eagle
- Steppe Eagle
- Eastern Imperial Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Booted Eagle
- Ayres’s Eagle
- Lizard Buzzard
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus
- African Marsh Harrier Circus
- Pallid Harrier Circus
- Montagu’s Harrier Circus
- African Goshawk Accipiter
- Shikra Accipiter
- Little Sparrowhawk
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
- Black Sparrow hawk
- African Fish Eagle
- Black Kite
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Augur Buzzard
- Eurasian Buzzard
- Mountain Buzzard
- Long-legged Buzzard
- African Grass Owl
- Common Barn Owl
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- African Barred Owlet
- African Scops Owl
- Southern White-faced Owl
- Marsh Owl
- African Wood Owl
- Cape Eagle Owl
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Speckled Mousebird
- White-headed Mousebird
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Narina’s Trogon
- Bar-tailed Trogon
- Southern Ground Hornbill
- Crowned Hornbill
- Pale-billed Hornbill
- African Grey Hornbill
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Trumpeter Hornbill
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
- Common Hoopoe
- Green Wood-hoopoe
- Violet Wood-hoopoe
- Common Scimitarbill
- Green-backed Honeybird
- Wahlberg’s Honeybird
- Pallid Honeyguide
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Greater Honeyguide
- Bennett’s Woodpecker
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker
- Mombasa Woodpecker
- Green-backed Woodpecker
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Grey Woodpecker
- Olive Woodpecker
- Crested Barbet
- Red-and-yellow Barbet
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- White-eared Barbet
- Eastern Green Tinkerbird
- Moustached Green Tinkerbird
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Spot-flanked Barbet
- Black-throated Barbet
- White-headed Barbet
- Brown-breasted Barbet
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- White-throated Bee-eater
- Somali Bee-eater
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
- Olive Bee-eater
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- European Bee-eater
- Böhm’s Bee-eater
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- Little Bee-eater
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Racquet-tailed Roller
- European Roller
- Broad-billed Roller
- African Pygmy Kingfisher
- African Malachite Kingfisher
- Half-collared Kingfisher
- Giant Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher
- Striped Kingfisher
- Woodland Kingfisher
- African Pygmy Falcon
- Lesser Kestrel
- Common Kestrel
- Greater Kestrel
- Dickinson’s Kestrel
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-footed Falcon
- Amur Falcon
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Sooty Falcon
- Eurasian Hobby
- African Hobby
- Lanner Falcon
- Saker Falcon
- Peregrine Falcon
- Taita Falcon
- Grey Parrot
- Red-fronted Parrot
- Brown-headed Parrot
- Red-bellied Parrot
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Yellow-collared Lovebird
- African Pitta
- African Broadbill
- Grey Cuckooshrike
- Black Cuckooshrike
- Eastern Black-headed Oriole
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- African Golden Oriole
- Forest Batis
- Chinspot Batis
- Black-headed Batis
- Pygmy Batis
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- White-crested Helmet-shrike
- Retz’s Helmet-shrike
- Chestnut-fronted Helmet-shrike
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
- Grey-headed Bush-shrike
- Black-backed Puffback
- Pringle’s Puffback
- Brown-crowned Tchagra
- Three-streaked Tchagra
- Black-crowned Tchagra
- Black-fronted Bush-shrike
- Orange-breasted Bush-shrike
- Fülleborn’s Boubou
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Tropical Boubou
- East Coast Boubou
- Rosy-patched Bush-shrike
- Gorgeous Bush-shrike
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Magpie Shrike
- White-rumped Shrike
- Red-backed Shrike
- Turkestan Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Taita Fiscal
- Southern Fiscal
- Northern Fiscal
- Cape Crow
- White-necked Raven
- Pied Crow
- House Crow
- Blue-mantled Paradise-flycatcher
- African Paradise-flycatcher
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
- Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird
- Collared Sunbird
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Olive Sunbird
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Hunter’s Sunbird
- Tacazze Sunbird
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Malachite Sunbird
- Scarlet-tufted Sunbird
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
- Usambara Double-collared Sunbird
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Black-bellied Sunbird
- Purple-banded Sunbird
- Tsavo Purple-banded Sunbird
- Variable Sunbird
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- Rufous-tailed Weaver
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Black-capped Social Weaver
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Cardinal Quelea
- Red-billed Quelea
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Black Bishop
- Red-collared Widowbird
- Fire-fronted Bishop
- Black-winged Bishop
- Southern Red Bishop
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird
- Fan-tailed Widowbird
- White-winged Widowbird
- Baglafecht Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Black-necked Weaver
- African Golden Weaver
- Holub’s Weaver
- Taveta Weaver
- Vitelline Masked Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Village Weaver
- Golden-backed Weaver
- Chestnut Weaver
- Dark-backed Weaver
- Red-headed Weaver
- Brown Firefinch
- Red-billed Firefinch
- Jameson’s Firefinch
- African Firefinch
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Peters’s Twinspot
- Purple Grenadier
- Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Common Waxbill
- Black-faced Waxbill
- Green-backed Twinspot
- Red-faced Crimson-wing
- Ethiopian Crimson-wing
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Grey-headed Negrofinch
- Cut-throat Finch
- Black-chinned Quailfinch
- African Quailfinch
- Zebra Waxbill
- Bronze Mannikin
- Black-and-white Mannikin
- Magpie Mannikin
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- African Silverbill
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Eastern Paradise Whydah
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Straw-tailed Whydah
- Dusky Indigobird
- Village Indigobird
- Purple Indigobird
- Parasitic Weaver
- House Sparrow
- Kordofan Sparrow
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
- Bushveld Pipit
- Tree Pipit
- Red-throated Pipit
- Striped Pipit
- African Pipit
- Long-billed Pipit
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Pangani Longclaw
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Golden Pipit
- Mountain Wagtail
- Yellow Wagtail
- African Wagtail
- Grey Wagtail
- White Wagtail
- Oriole Finch
- Southern Citril
- Western Citril
- Black-throated Canary
- Reichenow’s Canary
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Southern Grosbeak Canary
- White-bellied Canary
- Brimstone Canary
- Streaky Canary
- Thick-billed Canary
- Yellow-crowned Canary
- Cabanis’s Bunting
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Somali Bunting
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
- White-tipped Crested-flycatcher
- Mouse-coloured Penduline Tit
- Grey Penduline Tit
- Eastern Nicator
- Beesley’s Lark
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Pink-breasted Lark
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Red-winged Lark
- Flappet Lark
- Friedmann’s Lark
- White-tailed Lark
- Singing Bush Lark
- Somali Short-toed Lark
- Red-capped Lark
- Short-tailed Lark
- Northern Crombec
- Red-faced Crombec
- Somali Crombec
- Moustached Grass Warbler
- Kretschmer’s Longbill
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Red-capped Forest Warbler
- Bar-throated Apalis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis
- Black-headed Apalis
- Chestnut-throated Apalis
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Grey Wren Warbler
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Red-faced Cisticola
- Singing Cisticola
- Trilling Cisticola
- Hunter’s Cisticola
- Rock-loving Cisticola
- Rattling Cisticola
- Ashy Cisticola
- Winding Cisticola
- Stout Cisticola
- Croaking Cisticola
- Tiny Cisticola
- Short-winged Cisticola
- Zitting Cisticola
- Desert Cisticola
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Pale Prinia
- Red-faced Prinia
- River Warbler
- Fan-tailed Grassbird
- Little Rush Warbler
- Evergreen-forest Warbler
- Bracken Warbler
- Olivaceous Warbler
- Dark-capped Yellow Warbler
- Mountain Yellow Warbler
- Upcher’s Warbler
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Icterine Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Marsh Warbler
- Common Reed Warbler
- Basra Reed Warbler
- Lesser Swamp Warbler
- Great Reed Warbler
- White-headed Saw-wing
- Black Saw-wing
- Northern House Martin
- Lesser Striped Swallow
- Mosque Swallow
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Ethiopian Swallow
- Rock Martin
- Banded Martin
- Mascarene Martin
- Plain Martin
- Sand Martin
- Sombre Greenbul
- Yellow-bellied Greenbul
- Stripe-cheeked Greenbul
- Eastern Mountain Greenbul
- Shelley’s Greenbul
- Little Greenbul
- Tiny Greenbul
- Northern Brownbul
- Grey-olive Greenbul
- Cabanis’s Greenbul
- Yellow-streaked Greenbul
- Common Bulbul
- Willow Warbler
- Brown Woodland Warbler
- Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler
- Little Yellow Flycatcher Warbler
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Garden Warbler
- African Hill Babbler
- Barred Warbler
- Banded Parisoma
- Common Whitethroat
- Abyssinian White-eye
- African Yellow White-eye
- Broad-ringed White-eye
- Rufous Chatterer
- Scaly Chatterer
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Northern Pied Babbler
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Wattled Starling
- Slender-billed Starling
- Red-winged Starling
- Waller’s Starling
- Magpie Starling
- Sharpe’s Starling
- Kenrick’s Starling
- Abbott’s Starling
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Shelley’s Starling
- Rüppell’s Glossy Starling
- Ashy Starling
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Superb Starling
- Fischer’s Starling
- Greater Blue-eared Starling
- Amethyst Starling
- Black-bellied Starling
- Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin
- Rufous Scrub Robin
- White-browed Scrub Robin
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Ashy Flycatcher
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- Grey Tit Flycatcher
- Pale Flycatcher
- African Grey Flycatcher
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
- Southern Black Flycatcher
- Olive-flanked Robin Chat
- Cape Robin Chat
- White-browed Robin Chat
- Rüppell’s Robin Chat
- Red-capped Robin Chat
- White-chested Alethe
- White-starred Robin
- Collared Palm Thrush
- Spotted Palm Thrush
- Sharpe’s Akalat
- White-throated Irania
- Thrush Nightingale
- Common Nightingale
- Little Rock Thrush
- Common Rock Thrush
- Whinchat
- African Stonechat
- Moorland Chat
- Northern Wheatear
- Capped Wheatear
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Pied Wheatear
- Familiar Chat
- Abyssinian Wheatear
- Mocking Cliff Chat
- Red-tailed Ant Thrush
- Orange Thrush
- Abyssinian Thrush
- Ethiopian Thrush
- Usambara Thrush
- Bare-eyed Thrush
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