TANZANIA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
Remote Species
AFRICA
TANZANIA
| Area (SqMi): | 365,755 |
| # Species: | 1123 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 1090 |
| # Endemics: | 31 |
| # Near Endemics: | 31 |
| Species/1000 SqMi: | 3.0 |
OTHER COUNTRIES
IN AFRICA
BIRDING LOCALES
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 16 |
| LC | Local | 13 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 5 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 144 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 16 |
| V | Vulnerable | 11 |
| EN | Endangered | 7 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 1 |
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.
List of all specialty birds in the country occurring in remote locales not typically visited by birding tours. Specialties include endemics and globally threatened, vulnerable or endangered. Table indicates whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. See sidebar for meaning of location codes and symbols associated with common names.*
| 1 | Udzungwa Partridge | Xenoperdix udzungwensis | E | EN |
| 2 | Ring-necked Francolin | Scleroptera streptophorus | LC | NT |
| 3 | Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | RR | |
| 4 | Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | RR | |
| 5 | Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | RR | |
| 6 | Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx mechowi | RR | |
| 7 | /Forbes-Watson's Swift/ | Apus berliozi | RR | |
| 8 | White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | RR | |
| 9 | \Streaky-breasted Flufftail\ | Sarothrura boehmi | RR | |
| 10 | Striped Flufftail | Sarothrura affinis | RR | |
| 11 | Wattled Crane | Bugeranus carunculatus | RR | V |
| 12 | /Eurasian Oystercatcher/ | Haematopus ostralegus | NT | |
| 13 | Black-rumped Buttonquail | Turnix nanus | LC | |
| 14 | Rock Pratincole | Glareola nuchalis | RR | |
| 15 | \Madagascar Pratincole\ | Glareola ocularis | NT | |
| 16 | Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | LC | |
| 17 | Spot-breasted Ibis | Bostrychia rara | LC | |
| 18 | Scissor-tailed Kite | Chelictinia riocourii | V | |
| 19 | Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle | Circaetus beaudouini | V | |
| 20 | Cape Eagle-Owl | Bubo capensis | RR | |
| 21 | Red-faced Mousebird | Urocolius indicus | RR | |
| 22 | Violet Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus damarensis | RR | |
| 23 | Forest Scimitarbill | Rhinopomastus castaneiceps | RR | |
| 24 | Shining-blue Kingfisher | Alcedo quadribrachys | RR | |
| 25 | Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | RR | |
| 26 | Gray-throated Barbet | Gymnobucco bonapartei | RR | |
| 27 | Whyte's Barbet | Stactolaema whytii | LC | |
| 28 | Yellow-spotted Barbet | Buccanodon duchaillui | RR | |
| 29 | Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | RR | |
| 30 | Red-faced Barbet | Lybius rubrifacies | RR | NT |
| 31 | Black-billed Barbet | Lybius guifsobalito | RR | |
| 32 | Black-backed Barbet | Pogonornis minor | RR | |
| 33 | Least Honeyguide | Indicator exilis | RR | |
| 34 | Stierling's Woodpecker | Dendropicos stierlingi | LC | NT |
| 35 | Golden-crowned Woodpecker | Chloropicus xantholophus | RR | |
| 36 | Brown-eared Woodpecker | Pardipicus caroli | RR | |
| 37 | Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Pardipicus nivosa | RR | |
| 38 | Fine-banded Woodpecker | Campethera taeniolaema | RR | |
| 39 | Taita Falcon | Falco fasciinucha | V | |
| 40 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | RR | |
| 41 | Lilian's Lovebird | Agapornis lilianae | RR | NT |
| 42 | Gray Parrot | Psittacus erithacus | RR | EN |
| 43 | Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | RR | |
| 44 | Black-tailed Oriole | Oriolus percivali | RR | |
| 45 | Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | RR | |
| 46 | Jameson's Wattle-eye | Platysteira jamesoni | RR | |
| 47 | Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye | Platysteira concreta | RR | |
| 48 | Rwenzori Batis | Batis diops | RR | |
| 49 | African Shrike-flycatcher | Megabyas flammulatus | RR | |
| 50 | Pink-footed Puffback | Dryoscopus angolensis | RR | |
| 51 | Luehder's Bushshrike | Laniarius luehderi | RR | |
| 52 | Papyrus Gonolek | Laniarius mufumbiri | RR | NT |
| 53 | Four-colored Bushshrike | Telophorus viridis | RR | |
| 54 | Usambara Drongo** | Dicrurus sp. | E | |
| 55 | Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone rufiventer | RR | |
| 56 | Mackinnon's Shrike | Lanius mackinnoni | RR | |
| 57 | Souza's Shrike | Lanius souzae | RR | |
| 58 | /Woodchat Shrike/ | Lanius senator | NT | |
| 59 | Usambara Hyliota | Hyliota usambara | E | EN |
| 60 | African Blue Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | RR | |
| 61 | Dusky Crested Flycatcher | Elminia nigromitrata | RR | |
| 62 | Southern Black-Tit | Melaniparus niger | RR | |
| 63 | Somali Tit | Melaniparus thruppi | RR | |
| 64 | Dusky Lark | Pinarocorys nigricans | RR | |
| 65 | Western Nicator | Nicator chloris | RR | |
| 66 | Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | RR | |
| 67 | White-browed Crombec | Sylvietta leucophrys | RR | |
| 68 | Red-capped Crombec | Sylvietta ruficapilla | RR | |
| 69 | Cape Crombec | Sylvietta rufescens | RR | |
| 70 | Yellow Longbill | Macrosphenus flavicans | RR | |
| 71 | Gray Longbill | Macrosphenus concolor | RR | |
| 72 | Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | RR | |
| 73 | White-chinned Prinia | Schistolais leucopogon | RR | |
| 74 | Long-billed Tailorbird | Artisornis moreaui | NE | CR |
| 75 | Black-throated Apalis | Apalis jacksoni | RR | |
| 76 | Masked Apalis | Apalis binotata | RR | |
| 77 | Chestnut-throated Apalis | Apalis porphyrolaema | RR | |
| 78 | Mrs. Moreau's Warbler | Scepomycter winifredae | E | NT |
| 79 | Black-faced Rufous-Warbler | Bathmocercus rufus | RR | |
| 80 | Chubb's Cisticola | Cisticola chubbi | RR | |
| 81 | Black-lored Cisticola | Cisticola nigriloris | RR | |
| 82 | Kilombero Cisticola | Cisticola baerorum | E | |
| 83 | Churring Cisticola | Cisticola njombe | RR | |
| 84 | Chirping Cisticola | Cisticola pipiens | RR | |
| 85 | Carruthers's Cisticola | Cisticola carruthersi | RR | |
| 86 | Levaillant's Cisticola | Cisticola tinniens | RR | |
| 87 | Black-backed Cisticola | Cisticola eximius | RR | |
| 88 | Pale-crowned Cisticola | Cisticola cinnamomeus | RR | |
| 89 | Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | V | |
| 90 | /Basra Reed Warbler/ | Acrocephalus griseldis | EN | |
| 91 | Greater Swamp Warbler | Acrocephalus rufescens | RR | |
| 92 | Bamboo Warbler | Locustella alfredi | RR | |
| 93 | White-winged Swamp Warbler | Bradypterus carpalis | RR | |
| 94 | (Montane Blue Swallow) | Hirundo atrocaerulea | V | |
| 95 | Pearl-breasted Swallow | Hirundo dimidiata | RR | |
| 96 | Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris | RR | |
| 97 | Red-tailed Bristlebill | Bleda syndactylus | RR | |
| 98 | Yellow-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavicollis | RR | |
| 99 | Honeyguide Greenbul | Baeopogon indicator | RR | |
| 100 | Yellow-throated Mountain Greenbul | Arizelocichla chlorigula | E | |
| 101 | Yellow-whiskered Greenbul | Eurillas latirostris | RR | |
| 102 | Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | RR | |
| 103 | Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | RR | |
| 104 | Usambara Greenbul | Phyllastrephus albigula | NT | |
| 105 | Xavier's Greenbul | Phyllastrephus xavieri | RR | |
| 106 | Leaf-love | Phyllastrephus scandens | RR | |
| 107 | Toro Olive-Greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | RR | |
| 108 | Laura's Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus laurae | RR | |
| 109 | Uganda Woodland-Warbler | Phylloscopus budongoensis | RR | |
| 110 | Livingstone's Flycatcher | Erythrocercus livingstonei | LC | |
| 111 | South Pare White-eye | Zosterops winifredae | E | NT |
| 112 | Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | RR | |
| 113 | Pale-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis rufipennis | RR | |
| 114 | Tanzanian Illadopsis | Illadopsis distans | NE | |
| 115 | Mountain Illadopsis | Illadopsis pyrrhoptera | RR | |
| 116 | Scaly-breasted Illadopsis | Illadopsis albipectus | RR | |
| 117 | Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | RR | |
| 118 | Hartlaub's Babbler | Turdoides hartlaubii | RR | |
| 119 | Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus | RR | |
| 120 | Magpie Starling | Speculipastor bicolor | RR | |
| 121 | Stuhlmann's Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | RR | |
| 122 | Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush | Stizorhina fraseri | RR | |
| 123 | White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | RR | |
| 124 | \Spotted Ground-Thrush\ | Geokichla guttata | RR | V |
| 125 | Groundscraper Thrush | Turdus litsitsirupa | RR | |
| 126 | Usambara Thrush | Turdus roehli | E | NT |
| 127 | Boehm's Flycatcher | Bradornis boehmi | RR | |
| 128 | Sooty Flycatcher | Bradornis infuscata | RR | |
| 129 | Miombo Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas barbata | RR | |
| 130 | /Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin/ | Cercotrichas galactotes | RR | |
| 131 | Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | RR | |
| 132 | Olive-flanked Robin-Chat | Cossypha anomala | RR | NT |
| 133 | Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | RR | |
| 134 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | RR | |
| 135 | Swynnerton's Robin | Swynnertonia swynnertoni | RR | V |
| 136 | Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | RR | |
| 137 | Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | LC | |
| 138 | Bocage's Akalat | Sheppardia bocagei | RR | |
| 139 | Lowland Akalat | Sheppardia cyornithopsis | RR | |
| 140 | Usambara Akalat | Sheppardia montana | E | EN |
| 141 | Iringa Akalat | Sheppardia lowei | E | V |
| 142 | Rubeho Akalat | Sheppardia aurantiithorax | E | EN |
| 143 | /Common Redstart/ | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | RR | |
| 144 | Miombo Rock-Thrush | Monticola angolensis | LC | |
| 145 | Anchieta's Sunbird | Anthreptes anchietae | RR | |
| 146 | Little Green Sunbird | Anthreptes seimundi | RR | |
| 147 | Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | RR | |
| 148 | Blue-throated Brown Sunbird | Cyanomitra cyanolaema | RR | |
| 149 | Green-throated Sunbird | Chalcomitra rubescens | RR | |
| 150 | Regal Sunbird | Cinnyris regius | RR | |
| 151 | Moreau's Sunbird | Cinnyris moreaui | E | NT |
| 152 | Shelley's Sunbird | Cinnyris shelleyi | RR | |
| 153 | Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | RR | |
| 154 | Rufous-winged Sunbird | Cinnyris rufipennis | E | V |
| 155 | White-breasted Sunbird | Cinnyris talatala | RR | |
| 156 | Black-billed Weaver | Ploceus melanogaster | RR | |
| 157 | Ruvu Weaver | Ploceus holoxanthus | E | |
| 158 | Orange Weaver | Ploceus aurantius | RR | |
| 159 | Golden Palm Weaver | Ploceus bojeri | RR | |
| 160 | Southern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus xanthopterus | LC | |
| 161 | Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | RR | |
| 162 | Kilombero Weaver | Ploceus burnieri | E | V |
| 163 | Tanganyika Masked-Weaver | Ploceus reichardi | NE | |
| 164 | <Weyns's Weaver> | Ploceus weynsi | RR | |
| 165 | Brown-capped Weaver | Ploceus insignis | RR | |
| 166 | Olive-headed Weaver | Ploceus olivaceiceps | RR | NT |
| 167 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | RR | |
| 168 | <Fire-fronted Bishop> | Euplectes diadematus | RR | |
| 169 | Marsh Widowbird | Euplectes hartlaubi | RR | |
| 170 | Buff-shouldered Widowbird | Euplectes psammacromius | RR | |
| 171 | Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | LC | |
| 172 | White-collared Oliveback | Nesocharis ansorgei | RR | |
| 173 | Jameson's Antpecker | Parmoptila jamesoni | RR | |
| 174 | White-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita fusconotus | RR | |
| 175 | Black-tailed Waxbill | Glaucestrilda perreini | RR | |
| 176 | Locustfinch | Paludipasser locustella | RR | |
| 177 | Red-headed Bluebill | Spermophaga ruficapilla | RR | |
| 178 | Lesser Seedcracker | Pyrenestes minor | LC | |
| 179 | Black-bellied Seedcracker | Pyrenestes ostrinus | RR | |
| 180 | Brown Firefinch | Lagonosticta nitidula | RR | |
| 181 | Green Indigobird | Vidua codringtoni | RR | |
| 182 | Woodland Pipit | Anthus nyassae | RR | |
| 183 | Sokoke Pipit | Anthus sokokensis | NE | EN |
| 184 | Fuelleborn's Longclaw | Macronyx fuelleborni | RR | |
| 185 | Papyrus Canary | Crithagra koliensis | RR | |
| 186 | Tanzania Seedeater | Crithagra melanochrous | E | |
| 187 | Black-eared Seedeater | Crithagra mennelli | LC | |
| 188 | Dapple-throat | Arcanator orostruthus | NE | NT |
*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.