Birds of Madagascar

List of Common Birds Found in Madagascar

Native Birds

• African Black Swift
• Appert’s Tetraka
• Archbold’s Newtonia
• Banded Kestrel
• Bernier’s Vanga
• Blue Coua
• Blue Vanga
• Brown Mesite
• Common Newtonia
• Common Sunbird Asity
• Coquerel’s Coua
• Crested Coua
• Crested Drongo
• Crossley’s Babbler
• Cuckoo Roller 
• Eleonora’s Falcon
• Forest Fody
• Frances’s Sparrowhawk
• Giant Coua
• Greater Vasa Parrot
• Ground Roller
• Henst’s Goshawk
• Hook-billed Vanga
• Humblot’s Heron
• Lesser Vasa Parrot
• Long-billed Bernieria
• Madagascan Blue Pigeon
• Madagascan Fish Eagle 
• Madagascar Bee-eater
• Madagascar Blue Pigeon
• Madagascar Brush Warbler
• Madagascar Bulbul
• Madagascar Buttonquail
• Madagascar Buzzard
• Madagascar Cisticola
• Madagascar Crested Ibis
• Madagascar Cuckoo
• Madagascar Cuckoo-hawk
• Madagascar Cuckoo-roller
• Madagascar Cuckooshrike
• Madagascar Fish Eagle
• Madagascar Flufftail
• Madagascar Fody
• Madagascar Grassbird
• Madagascar Grebe
• Madagascar Green Pigeon
• Madagascar Green Sunbird
• Madagascar Harrier-hawk
• Madagascar Hoopoe
• Madagascar Jacana
• Madagascar Kestrel
• Madagascar Kingfisher
• Madagascar Lark
• Madagascar Little Grebe
• Madagascar Magpie-robin
• Madagascar Nightjar
• Madagascar Owl
• Madagascar Paradise Flycatcher
• Madagascar Paradise Whydah
• Madagascar Plover
• Madagascar Pochard 
• Madagascar Pratincole
• Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher
• Madagascar Rail
• Madagascar Red Owl
• Madagascar Sacred Ibis
• Madagascar Scops Owl
• Madagascar Serpent Eagle
• Madagascar Snipe
• Madagascar Sparrowhawk
• Madagascar Starling
• Madagascar Stonechat
• Madagascar Swamp Warbler
• Madagascar Turtle Dove
• Madagascar Wagtail
• Madagascar White-eye
• Madagascar White-throated Rail
• Madagascar Woodpecker
• Madagascar Wood Rail
• Madagascar Yellowbrow
• Malagasy Brush Warbler
• Malagasy Coucal
• Malagasy Green Sunbird
• Malagasy Kestrel
• Malagasy Kingfisher
• Malagasy White-eye
• Meller’s Duck 
• Namaqua Dove
• Nelicourvi Weaver
• Nuthatch Vanga
• Pitta-like Ground Roller
• Pollen’s Vanga
• Rainforest Scops Owl
• Red-breasted Coua
• Red-capped Coua
• Red Fody
• Red-fronted Coua
• Red-shouldered Vanga
• Red-tailed Newtonia
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-tailed Vanga
• Rufous-headed Ground Roller
• Rufous Vanga
• Schlegel’s Asity
• Short-Legged Ground Roller
• Sickle-billed Vanga
• Sooty Falcon
• Sooty Tern
• Souimanga Sunbird
• Spectacled Tetraka
• Subdesert Brush Warbler
• Subdesert Mesite
• Van Dam’s Vanga
• Velvet Asity
• White-breasted Mesite
• White-browed Owl
• White-throated Oxylabes
• White-throated Rail

Non-native Birds

• Common Myna
• Common Waxbill
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• House Sparrow
• Mallard
• Rock Pigeon
• Zebra Dove

Some of the best birding sites in Madagascar include Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Ranomafana National Park, and Berenty Private Reserve. The peak season for birding in Madagascar generally falls within the austral summer months of October to March.