Birds of Liberia

List of Common Birds Found in Liberia

Native Birds

• African Broadbill
• African Crowned Eagle
• African Darter
• African Finfoot
• African Fish-eagle
• African Golden Oriole
• African Goshawk
• African Green Pigeon
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Hoopoe
• African Jacana
• African Olive Pigeon
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pitta
• African Pygmy Falcon
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Shrike-flycatcher
• African Skimmer
• African Spoonbill
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• African White-backed Vulture
• African Wood Owl
• African Yellow White-eye
• Bar-breasted Firefinch
• Bar-breasted Trogon
• Bearded Barbet
• Black Bee-eater
• Black Crake
• Black Cuckoo
• Black Heron
• Black Kite
• Black-necked Weaver
• Black-throated Coucal
• Black-winged Bishop
• Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Blue Cuckooshrike
• Blue-headed Coucal
• Blue Malkoha
• Blue-moustached Bee-eater
• Böhm’s Bee-eater
• Bronze Manakin
• Brown-backed Woodpecker
• Brown Nightjar
• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Buff-spotted Woodpecker
• Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
• Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch
• Chestnut-winged Starling
• Collared Sunbird
• Copper Sunbird
• Crested Barbet
• Crested Guinea Fowl
• Crowned Hornbill
• Dusky Flycatcher
• Egyptian Plover
• Emerald Cuckoo
• Ethiopian Swallow
• Fiery-necked Nightjar
• Forbes’s Plover
• Four-banded Sandgrouse
• Gambaga Flycatcher
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Gray-headed Oliveback
• Grayish Eagle-Owl
• Gray Parrot
• Great Blue Turaco
• Greater Blue-eared Starling
• Great Snipe
• Green-backed Woodpecker
• Green-headed Sunbird
• Green-throated Sunbird
• Green Turaco
• Guinea Turaco
• Hartlaub’s Duck
• Helmeted Guinea Fowl 
• Heuglin’s Francolin
• Hooded Vulture 
• Iris Glossy-starling
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Lesser Honeyguide
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Greenbul
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Hawk
• Long-tailed Nightjar
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Marabou Stork
• Northern Black Flycatcher
• Olive-bellied Sunbird
• Orange-breasted Bushshrike
• Oriole Warbler
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• Pel’s Fishing Owl
• Pied Crow
• Pied Kingfisher 
• Pink-footed Puffback
• Preuss’s Swallow
• Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
• Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
• Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Helmetshrike
• Red-billed Hornbill
• Red-billed Quelea
• Red-billed Scimitar Babbler
• Red-billed Woodhoopoe
• Red-chested Goshawk
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-legged Sparrowhawk
• Red-necked Buzzard
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Shining-blue Kingfisher
• Village Weaver 
• Violet-backed Starling
• White-throated Bee Eater 
• Woodland Kingfisher 
• Yellow-casqued Hornbill

Non-native Birds

• Booted Eagle
• Brubru
• Ethiopian Swallow
• Glossy Ibis
• Goliath Heron
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Great Cormorant
• House Sparrow
• Lanner Falcon
• Lavender Waxbill
• Mosque Swallow
• Red-headed Lovebird
• Rock Pigeon
• Senegal Batis
• Senegal Parrot
• Sooty Chat
• Tawny Eagle
• Winding Cisticola

Some of the best birding sites in Liberia include Sapo National Park, East Nimba Nature Reserve, and Lake Piso Multiple Use Reserve. The peak season for birdwatching typically occurs between March and June in the Northern Hemisphere and September and November in the Southern Hemisphere.