Birds of Burkina Faso

List of Common Birds Found in Burkina Faso

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
• Abyssinian Roller
• African Cuckoo
• African Fish-eagle
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Harrier Hawk
• African Jacana
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Scops Owl
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• Bearded Barbet
• Beautiful Sunbird
• Black-billed Wood-dove
• Black Crake
• Black Crowned Crane
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-headed Weaver
• Blue-bellied Roller
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Brown Babbler
• Bruce’s Green Pigeon
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow Weaver
• Chestnut-bellied Starling
• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver
• Chestnut Wattle-eye
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Bulbul
• Common Fiscal
• Common Ostrich
• Common Greenshank
• Copper Sunbird
• Crested Barbet
• Crested Lark
• Croaking Cisticola
• Crowned Lapwing
• Diederik Cuckoo
• Double-spurred Francolin
• Double-spurred Spurfowl
• Egyptian Goose
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Exclamatory Paradise Whydah
• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
• Fire-fronted Bishop
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Gray-headed Lovebird
• Gray Kestrel
• Gray Plantain Eater
• Great Egret
• Greater Painted-Snipe
• Great Sparrowhawk
• Green Turaco
• Grey-headed Kingfisher
• Grey-headed Oliveback
• Hadada Ibis
• Hamerkop
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Hooded Vulture
• Intermediate Egret
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Blue-eared Starling
• Lesser Honeyguide
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Grebe
• Little Weaver
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Glossy Starling
• Long-tailed Nightjar
• Marabou Stork
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Northern Red-billed Hornbill
• Nubian Woodpecker
• Orange-breasted Bushshrike
• Orange-cheeked Waxbill
• Osprey
• Pale Flycatcher
• Pied Crow
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Purple Heron
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Quelea
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-faced Pytilia
• Red-headed Lovebird
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Senegal Eremomela
• Senegal Parrot
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Singing Cisticola
• Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
• Speckled Pigeon
• Stone Partridge
• Striated Heron
• Sudan Golden Sparrow
• Superb Starling
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Village Weaver
• Violet Turaco
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Bustard
• White-billed Buffalo Weaver
• White-browed Coucal
• White-crowned Lapwing
• White-rumped Seedeater
• White-throated Bee-eater
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Yellow-billed Shrike
• Yellow-crowned Gonolek
• Abdim’s Stork
• African Collared-dove
• African Cuckoo-hawk
• African Goshawk
• African Green-pigeon
• African Hawk-eagle
• African Openbill
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Woolly-necked Stork
• Alpine Swift
• Arabian Bustard
• Banded Snake-eagle
• Bateleur
• Bat Hawk
• Beaudouin’s Snake-eagle
• Black-bellied Bustard
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black Coucal
• Black Cuckoo
• Black-headed Lapwing
• Black Kite
• Black Stork
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue Quail
• Blue-spotted Wood-dove
• Booted Eagle
• Brown Snake-eagle
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Quail
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Swift
• Coqui Francolin
• Dark Chanting-goshawk
• Denham’s Bustard
• Eurasian Marsh-harrier
• European Honey-buzzard
• European Turtle-dove
• Forbes’s Plover
• Gabar Goshawk
• Giant Kingfisher
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Imperial Eagle
• Kentish Plover
• Kittlitz’s Plover
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Swift
• Lizard Buzzard
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Martial Eagle
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mottled Spinetail
• Mottled Swift
• Mourning Collared-dove
• Nubian Bustard
• Ovambo Sparrowhawk
• Pallid Harrier
• Pallid Swift
• Palm-nut Vulture
• Pied Cuckoo
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-necked Buzzard
• Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
• Rock Pigeon
• Rüppell’s Griffon
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Savile’s Bustard
• Scissor-tailed Kite
• Senegal Coucal
• Senegal Thick-knee
• Shikra
• Shining-blue Kingfisher
• Spotted Thick-knee
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Striped Kingfisher
• Tawny Eagle
• Thick-billed Cuckoo
• Vinaceous Dove
• Water Thick-knee
• Wattled Lapwing
• White-fronted Plover
• White-headed Lapwing
• White-headed Vulture
• White-rumped Swift
• White Stork
• White-throated Francolin
• Yellow-billed Stork

Non-native Birds

• African Firefinch
• African Pied Wagtail
• Banded Martin
• Blackstart
• Desert Wheatear
• Fulvous Chatterer
• Gambaga Flycatcher
• Iberian Chiffchaff
• Imperial Eagle
• Isabelline Shrike
• Zebra Waxbill

Some of the best places to see birds in Burkina Faso include Arli National Park, Mare aux Hippopotames, and Nazinga Game Ranch. The best time to see these birds is in the dry season, typically from November to March.