Birds of Ivory Coast

List of Common Birds Found in Ivory Coast

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
• African Black-headed Oriole
• African Blue Flycatcher
• African Cuckoo Hawk
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• African Finfoot
• African Fish-eagle
• African Golden Oriole
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Green Pigeon
• African Harrier Hawk
• African Hobby
• African Jacana
• African Moustached Warbler
• African Openbill
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Spoonbill
• African Swamphen
• African Thrush
• African Yellow White-eye
• Allen’s Gallinule
• Angola Swallow
• Bearded Barbet
• Beautiful Sunbird
• Black-and-white Mannikin
• Black Bee-eater
• Black-bellied Firefinch
• Black-billed Wood Dove
• Black Crake
• Black-crowned Crane
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-rumped Waxbill
• Black Scimitarbill
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Blue Malkoha
• Blue-moustached Bee-eater
• Brown Illadopsis
• Brown Sunbird
• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Buff-spotted Flufftail
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Cassin’s Malimbe
• Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch
• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
• Chestnut-capped Flycatcher
• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver
• Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
• Chestnut-winged Starling
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Bulbul
• Copper Sunbird
• Crowned Hornbill
• Dark-capped Bulbul
• Double-spurred Francolin
• Dusky-blue Flycatcher
• Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
• Dusky Tit
• Eastern Gray Plantain-eater
• Egyptian Goose
• Egyptian Plover
• Eurasian Hobby
• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
• Forbes’s Plover
• Fülleborn’s Longclaw
• Gabon Woodpecker
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Gray Go-away-bird
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Gray-headed Nigrita
• Gray Heron
• Gray Kestrel
• Gray Plover
• Gray Woodpecker
• Great Blue Turaco
• Great Sparrowhawk
• Great White Pelican
• Green Turaco
• Guinea Turaco
• Hairy-breasted Barbet
• Hamerkop
• Hartlaub’s Duck
• Hartlaub’s Marsh Widowbird
• Hartlaub’s Turaco
• Helmeted Guinea Fowl 
• Heuglin’s Masked Weaver
• Hooded Vulture
• Icterine Greenbul
• Kemp’s Longbill
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Lafresnaye’s Piculet
• Latham’s Francolin
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Gray Greenbul
• Little Greenbul
• Little Stint
• Little Swift
• Little Tern
• Locust Finch
• Long-billed Crombec
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-legged Pipit
• Long-tailed Glossy Starling
• Magpie Mannikin
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Marsh Tchagra
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mosque Swallow
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Olive Sunbird
• Orange Weaver
• Oriole Warbler
• Painted Snipe
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Plain Greenbul
• Red-Throated Bee Eater 
• Red-vented Malimbe
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Senegal Parrot
• Village Weaver 
• Violet Turaco
• Western Bluebill
• White-backed Vulture
• White-cheeked Turaco
• White-throated Bee Eater 
• Woodland Kingfisher 

Non-native Birds

• Bluethroat
• Common Chiffchaff
• Eleonora’s Falcon
• Greater Swamp Warbler
• House Sparrow
• Northern Wheatear
• Rufous Cisticola
• Tawny Pipit
• Western Olivaceous Warbler
• Western Red-billed Hornbill

Some of the best places to go birding in the Ivory Coast include Comoé National Park, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, and Taï National Park. The last one is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The best time to go birdwatching in Ivory Coast is during the dry season, generally from November to March.