ETHIOPIA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
AFRICA
ETHIOPIA
| # Species: | 883 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 850 |
| # Endemics: | 22 |
| # Near Endemics: | 25 |
List of species that are endemic (E), near endemic (NE), have restricted ranges in the country (RR), or occur only locally (LC) in the country excluding vagrants and accidentals. Table also shows species with globally threatened or endangered status according to the IUCN.*
| 1 | Somali Ostrich | Struthio molybdophanes | V | |
| 2 | Blue-winged Goose | Cyanochen cyanoptera | E | NT |
| 3 | /Common Pochard/ | Aythya ferina | V | |
| 4 | /Ferruginous Duck/ | Aythya nyroca | NT | |
| 5 | Maccoa Duck | Oxyura maccoa | EN | |
| 6 | Coqui Francolin | Campocolinus coqui | RR | |
| 7 | Orange River Francolin | Scleroptera levaillantoides | RR | |
| 8 | Moorland Francolin | Scleroptera psilolaemus | E | NT |
| 9 | &Blue Quaill | Synoicus adansonii | E | |
| 10 | Chestnut-naped Spurfowl | Pternistis castaneicollis | RR | |
| 11 | Erckel's Spurfowl | Pternistis erckelii | RR | |
| 12 | Scaly Spurfowl | Pternistis squamatus | RR | |
| 13 | Harwood's Spurfowl | Pternistis harwoodi | E | NT |
| 14 | White-collared Pigeon | Columba albitorques | NE | |
| 15 | /European Turtle-Dove/ | Streptopelia turtur | V | |
| 16 | African Collared-Dove | Streptopelia roseogrisea | RR | |
| 17 | White-winged Collared-Dove | Streptopelia reichenowi | RR | NT |
| 18 | Black-billed Wood-Dove | Turtur abyssinicus | RR | |
| 19 | African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | RR | |
| 20 | Spotted Sandgrouse | Pterocles senegallus | RR | |
| 21 | Arabian Bustard | Ardeotis arabs | NT | |
| 22 | Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | NT | |
| 23 | #Denham's Bustard# | Neotis denhami | RR | NT |
| 24 | Little Brown Bustard | Heterotetrax humilis | NT | |
| 25 | Hartlaub's Bustard | Lissotis hartlaubii | RR | |
| 26 | White-cheeked Turaco | Menelikkornis leucotis | NE | |
| 27 | Prince Ruspoli's Turaco | Menelikkornis ruspolii | E | NT |
| 28 | Fischer's Turaco | Tauraco fischeri | LC | NT |
| 29 | (Black Coucal) | Centropus grillii | RR | |
| 30 | Nubian Nightjar | Caprimulgus nubicus | RR | |
| 31 | Donaldson Smith's Nightjar | Caprimulgus donaldsoni | RR | |
| 32 | \Swamp Nightjar\ | Caprimulgus natalensis | RR | |
| 33 | Nechisar Nightjar | Caprimulgus solala | E | V |
| 34 | Long-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus climacurus | RR | |
| 35 | Rouget's Rail | Rougetius rougetii | NE | NT |
| 36 | White-winged Flufftail | Sarothrura ayresi | NE | CR |
| 37 | Black Crowned-Crane | Balearica pavonina | V | |
| 38 | Wattled Crane | Bugeranus carunculatus | V | |
| 39 | Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | RR | |
| 40 | Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris | LC | |
| 41 | Spot-breasted Lapwing | Vanellus melanocephalus | E | |
| 42 | /Sociable Lapwing/ | Vanellus gregarius | RR | CR |
| 43 | /Eurasian Curlew/ | Numenius arquata | NT | |
| 44 | /Black-tailed Godwit/ | Limosa limosa | NT | |
| 45 | /Great Snipe/ | Gallinago media | NT | |
| 46 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea | NT | |
| 47 | /Cream-colored Courser/ | Cursorius cursor | RR | |
| 48 | |Black-winged Pratincole| | Glareola nordmanni | NT | |
| 49 | /Lesser Flamingo/ | Phoenicoparrus minor | V | |
| 50 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis | NT | |
| 51 | /Northern Bald Ibis/ | Geronticus eremita | RR | EN |
| 52 | Wattled Ibis | Bostrychia carunculata | NE | |
| 53 | /White-backed Night Heron/ | Calherodius leuconotus | LC | |
| 54 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex | V | |
| 55 | Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius | EN | |
| 56 | Scissor-tailed Kite | Chelictinia riocourii | V | |
| 57 | Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | NT | |
| 58 | Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | EN | |
| 59 | African Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda cuculoides | RR | |
| 60 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis | CR | |
| 61 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos | EN | |
| 62 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | CR | |
| 63 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | CR | |
| 64 | Rueppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli | CR | |
| 65 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | EN | |
| 66 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | NT | |
| 67 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | EN | |
| 68 | /Greater Spotted Eagle/ | Clanga clanga | V | |
| 69 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | V | |
| 70 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis | EN | |
| 71 | /Imperial Eagle/ | Aquila heliaca | V | |
| 72 | Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | LC | |
| 73 | /Pallid Harrier/ | Circus macrourus | NT | |
| 74 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | NT | |
| 75 | Pharaoh Eagle-Owl | Bubo ascalaphus | RR | |
| 76 | White-headed Mousebird | Colius leucocephalus | RR | |
| 77 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | RR | |
| 78 | Violet Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus damarensis | RR | |
| 79 | Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus abyssinicus | V | |
| 80 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus | RR | |
| 81 | Red-throated Bee-eater | Merops bulocki | RR | |
| 82 | Ethiopian Bee-eater | Merops lafresnayii | E | |
| 83 | Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | Merops hirundineus | RR | |
| 84 | #African Green Bee-eater# | Merops viridissimus | RR | |
| 85 | Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | LC | |
| 86 | Yellow-breasted Barbet | Trachyphonus margaritatus | RR | |
| 87 | Banded Barbet | Lybius undatus | NE | |
| 88 | Green-backed Honeybird | Prodotiscus zambesiae | RR | |
| 89 | Scaly-throated Honeyguide | Indicator variegatus | RR | |
| 90 | Abyssinian Woodpecker | Dendropicos abyssinicus | NE | |
| 91 | Brown-backed Woodpecker | Dendropicos obsoletus | RR | |
| 92 | African Gray Woodpecker | Dendropicos goertae | RR | |
| 93 | Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | RR | |
| 94 | Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera | NT | |
| 95 | |Red-footed Falcon| | Falco vespertinus | V | |
| 96 | |Eleonora's Falcon| | Falco eleonorae | LC | |
| 97 | |Sooty Falcon| | Falco concolor | V | |
| 98 | /Saker Falcon/ | Falco cherrug | EN | |
| 99 | Taita Falcon | Falco fasciinucha | V | |
| 100 | Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | RR | |
| 101 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | RR | |
| 102 | Black-winged Lovebird | Agapornis taranta | NE | |
| 103 | Meyer's Parrot | Poicephalus meyeri | RR | |
| 104 | Yellow-fronted Parrot | Poicephalus flavifrons | E | |
| 105 | Ethiopian Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus monacha | NE | |
| 106 | Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | RR | |
| 107 | Red-naped Bushshrike | Laniarius ruficeps | NE | |
| 108 | Black-headed Gonolek | Laniarius erythrogaster | RR | |
| 109 | /Woodchat Shrike/ | Lanius senator | NT | |
| 110 | Stresemann's Bush-Crow | Zavattariornis stresemanni | E | EN |
| 111 | Piapiac | Ptilostomus afer | RR | |
| 112 | Brown-necked Raven | Corvus ruficollis | RR | |
| 113 | Thick-billed Raven | Corvus crassirostris | NE | |
| 114 | Yellow-bellied Hyliota | Hyliota flavigaster | RR | |
| 115 | White-backed Black-Tit | Melaniparus leuconotus | NE | |
| 116 | Greater Hoopoe-Lark | Alaemon alaudipes | RR | |
| 117 | Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix nigriceps | RR | |
| 118 | Gillett's Lark | Calendulauda gilletti | NE | |
| 119 | Liben Lark | Heteromirafra archeri | E | CR |
| 120 | Singing Bushlark | Mirafra javanica | RR | |
| 121 | White-tailed Lark | Mirafra albicauda | RR | |
| 122 | &Friedmann's Larkl | Mirafra pulpa | RR | |
| 123 | Collared Lark | Amirafra collaris | NE | |
| 124 | Red-winged Lark | Corypha hypermetra | RR | |
| 125 | Masked Lark | Spizocorys personata | NE | |
| 126 | Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | RR | |
| 127 | Short-tailed Lark | Pseudalaemon fremantlii | RR | |
| 128 | /Greater Short-toed Lark/ | Calandrella brachydactyla | RR | |
| 129 | Blanford's Lark | Calandrella blanfordi | NE | |
| 130 | Somali Short-toed Lark | Alaudala somalica | RR | |
| 131 | Short-billed Crombec | Sylvietta philippae | E | |
| 132 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | RR | |
| 133 | Graceful Prinia | Prinia gracilis | RR | |
| 134 | Red-winged Prinia | Prinia erythroptera | RR | |
| 135 | Boran Cisticola | Cisticola bodessa | LC | |
| 136 | Red-pate Cisticola | Cisticola ruficeps | RR | |
| 137 | Ethiopian Cisticola | Cisticola lugubris | NE | |
| 138 | Winding Cisticola | Cisticola marginatus | RR | |
| 139 | Desert Cisticola | Cisticola aridulus | RR | |
| 140 | Black-backed Cisticola | Cisticola eximius | RR | |
| 141 | |Basra Reed Warbler| | Acrocephalus griseldis | EN | |
| 142 | Bamboo Warbler | Locustella alfredi | RR | |
| 143 | White-tailed Swallow | Hirundo megaensis | E | V |
| 144 | Pale-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavigula | RR | |
| 145 | Abyssinian Catbird | Sylvia galinieri | E | |
| 146 | /Eastern Orphean Warbler/ | Curruca crassirostris | RR | |
| 147 | /Menetries's Warbler/ | Curruca mystacea | RR | |
| 148 | Ethiopian White-eye | Zosterops poliogastrus | E | |
| 149 | Kafa White-eye | Zosterops kaffensis | NE | |
| 150 | Northern Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | RR | |
| 151 | Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | RR | |
| 152 | Scaly Babbler | Turdoides squamulata | RR | |
| 153 | Cretzschmar's Babbler | Turdoides leucocephala | RR | |
| 154 | Dusky Babbler | Turdoides tenebrosa | RR | |
| 155 | Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | RR | |
| 156 | White-billed Starling | Onychognathus albirostris | NE | |
| 157 | Somali Starling | Onychognathus blythii | RR | |
| 158 | Sharpe's Starling | Pholia sharpii | RR | |
| 159 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | RR | |
| 160 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | RR | |
| 161 | Chestnut-bellied Starling | Lamprotornis pulcher | RR | |
| 162 | Fischer's Starling | Lamprotornis fischeri | RR | |
| 163 | Ethiopian Thrush | Turdus simensis | E | |
| 164 | /Song Thrush/ | Turdus philomelos | RR | |
| 165 | Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | RR | |
| 166 | Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbeus | LC | |
| 167 | Silverbird | Empidornis semipartitus | RR | |
| 168 | Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis chocolatinus | NE | |
| 169 | /Black Scrub-Robin/ | Cercotrichas podobe | RR | |
| 170 | \Red-capped Robin-Chat\ | Cossypha natalensis | RR | |
| 171 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | RR | |
| 172 | White-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha albicapillus | RR | |
| 173 | /Black Redstart/ | Phoenicurus ochruros | RR | |
| 174 | White-winged Cliff-Chat | Monticola semirufa | NE | |
| 175 | Rueppell's Chat | Myrmecocichla melaena | NE | |
| 176 | Heuglin's Wheatear | Oenanthe heuglinii | RR | |
| 177 | /Western Black-eared Wheatear/ | Oenanthe hispanica | RR | |
| 178 | White-fronted Black-Chat | Oenanthe albifrons | RR | |
| 179 | Blackstart | Oenanthe melanura | RR | |
| 180 | Sombre Rock Chat | Oenanthe dubia | E | |
| 181 | Brown-tailed Chat | Oenanthe scotocerca | RR | |
| 182 | White-crowned Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | RR | |
| 183 | /Kurdish Wheatear/ | Oenanthe xanthoprymna | RR | |
| 184 | Pygmy Sunbird | Hedydipna platura | LC | |
| 185 | Nile Valley Sunbird | Hedydipna metallica | RR | |
| 186 | Olive Sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea | RR | |
| 187 | Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | RR | |
| 188 | Black-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris nectarinioides | RR | |
| 189 | Purple-banded Sunbird | Cinnyris bifasciatus | RR | |
| 190 | Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus | RR | |
| 191 | White-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis albirostris | RR | |
| 192 | Speckle-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes frontalis | RR | |
| 193 | Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver | Plocepasser donaldsoni | RR | |
| 194 | Gray-capped Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita arnaudi | RR | |
| 195 | Black-capped Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita cabanisi | RR | |
| 196 | Black-necked Weaver | Ploceus nigricollis | RR | |
| 197 | Northern Masked-Weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | LC | |
| 198 | Juba Weaver | Ploceus dichrocephalus | NE | |
| 199 | Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus | RR | |
| 200 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | RR | |
| 201 | Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | RR | |
| 202 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | RR | |
| 203 | Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor | RR | |
| 204 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | LC | |
| 205 | Green-backed Twinspot | Mandingoa nitidula | LC | |
| 206 | Black-faced Waxbill | Brunhilda erythronotos | RR | |
| 207 | Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | RR | |
| 208 | Gray-headed Silverbill | Odontospiza griseicapilla | RR | |
| 209 | Blue-capped Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus cyanocephalus | RR | |
| 210 | Orange-winged Pytilia | Pytilia afra | RR | |
| 211 | Red-billed Pytilia | Pytilia lineata | NE | |
| 212 | Jameson's Firefinch | Lagonosticta rhodopareia | LC | |
| 213 | Black-faced Firefinch | Lagonosticta larvata | LC | |
| 214 | Sahel Paradise-Whydah | Vidua orientalis | RR | |
| 215 | Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah | Vidua interjecta | RR | |
| 216 | Wilson's Indigobird | Vidua wilsoni | LC | |
| 217 | Jambandu Indigobird | Vidua raricola | LC | |
| 218 | Barka Indigobird | Vidua larvaticola | LC | |
| 219 | Parasitic Weaver | Anomalospiza imberbis | LC | |
| 220 | House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | RR | |
| 221 | Shelley's Rufous Sparrow | Passer shelleyi | LC | |
| 222 | Sudan Golden Sparrow | Passer luteus | RR | |
| 223 | /Pale Rockfinch/ | Carpospiza brachydactyla | RR | |
| 224 | Bush Pipit | Anthus caffer | RR | |
| 225 | Abyssinian Longclaw | Macronyx flavicollis | E | NT |
| 226 | White-rumped Seedeater | Crithagra leucopygius | RR | |
| 227 | Yellow-rumped Serin | Crithagra xanthopygius | NE | |
| 228 | White-bellied Canary | Crithagra dorsostriatus | RR | |
| 229 | Yellow-throated Serin | Crithagra flavigula | E | EN |
| 230 | Salvadori's Serin | Crithagra xantholaemus | E | |
| 231 | Ankober Serin | Crithagra ankoberensis | E | V |
| 232 | Ethiopian Siskin | Serinus nigriceps | E | |
| 233 | /Cinereous Bunting/ | Emberiza cineracea | RR | NT |
| 234 | Golden-breasted Bunting | Emberiza flaviventris | RR |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.
OTHER COUNTRIESIN AFRICA
BIRDING LOCALES
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 22 |
| LC | Local | 19 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 25 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 124 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 10 |
| V | Vulnerable | 3 |
| EN | Endangered | 3 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 3 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.