59 bird species identified …..seen any of these birds?
Category: Bird Surveys, Forest surveys | Date: Oct 28 2008 | By: davidngala
59 bird species identified …..seen any of these birds?
While I was at mrima wa ndege, I did some birding and identified 59 bird species. Mrima wa ndege is the name of a place in Swahili while means ‘the hill of birds” no wonder I got so many bird species. Here is a list of the bird species I identified in their common names:-
a view from mrima wa ndege.
1. African Barred owl
2. African scops owl
3. Fiery necked night jar
4. Zanzibar Sombre greenbul
5. Black headed Oriole
6. Northern brownbal
7. Collared sunbird
8. Grey headed bushshrike
9. ring necked dove
10. Laughing dove
11. Black crowned tchagra
12. Striped kingfisher
13. Tropical bulbul
14. Common bulbul
15. Red tailed tinkerbird
16. Long-tailed fiscal
17. Crested francolin
18. Red eyed dove
19. Pale flycatcher
20. Emarol spotted wood dove
21. Namaqua dove
22. Blue eyed starling
23. Purple banaded sunbird
24. Northern white crowned shrike
25. White-browed coucal
26. Red-billed buffalo weaver
27. Fork-tailed drongo
28. Golden pipit
29. Northern crownec
30. Grey wren-wabler
31. Black headed batis
32. White winged chat
33. Blue naped mousebird
34. Brown headed parrot
35. Rufous chatterer
36. Speckled mousebird
37. Grey hornbill
38. Mouse coloured sunbird
39. African bare-eyed thrush
40. Common scimitarbill
41. Grey-backed camaroptera
42. Sulphur breasted bush shrike
43. Spotted morning thrush
44. White bellied go-away-bird
45. Chestnut weaver
46. Black collared barbet
47. European golden oriole
48. Lilac breasted roller
49. Little bee eater
50. Greater honey guide
51. Amethyst sunbird
52. Green wood hoopoe
53. Palm swift
54. Pied wagtail
55. Burn swallow
56. Von der Decken’s hornbill
57. African harrier-hawk
58. Black backed puffback
59. Redchicked donblue
David Ngala
FoASF - Conservation Officer
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