Birds of Mozambique

List of Common Birds Found in Mozambique

Native Birds

• African Black Crake
• African Black Duck
• African Black-headed Oriole
• African Black-headed Weaver
• African Black Swift
• African Blue Flycatcher
• African Broadbill
• African Darter
• African Emerald Cuckoo
• African Finfoot
• African Fish Eagle
• African Golden Oriole
• African Goshawk
• African Gray Flycatcher
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Green Pigeon
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Hoopoe
• African Jacana
• African Marsh Harrier
• African Openbill
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pygmy Goose
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Sacred Ibis 
• African Scops Owl
• African Snipe
• African Spoonbill
• African Wattled Lapwing
• African Yellow-bellied Bulbul
• African Yellow-throated Leaflove
• African Yellow Warbler
• African Yellow White-eye
• Ashy Flycatcher
• Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
• Bateleur Eagle
• Bennett’s Woodpecker
• Black-bellied Bustard
• Black-billed Barbet
• Black-collared Barbet
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Black-faced Babbler
• Black-headed Apalis
• Black-headed Gonolek
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-throated Wattle-eye
• Black-winged Bishop
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Blue-headed Coucal
• Blue Waxbill
• Böhm’s Bee-eater
• Broad-billed Roller
• Brown Firefinch
• Brown-throated Wattle-eye
• Burchell’s Coucal
• Cape Batis
• Cape Gannet
• Cape Glossy Starling
• Chirinda Apalis
• Collared Pratincole
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common Ostrich 
• Copper Sunbird
• Copper-tailed Glossy Starling
• Crab-plover
• Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin
• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
• Eastern Nicator
• Flappet Lark
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Gorgeous Bushshrike
• Gray Crowned Crane 
• Gray Go-away Bird 
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Gray Penduline Tit
• Gray-rumped Swallow
• Gray Tit-Flycatcher
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Painted-Snipe
• Green-backed Heron
• Green-backed Twinspot
• Green-headed Oriole
• Green Tinkerbird
• Green Twinspot
• Hadada Ibis 
• Hamerkop 
• Helmeted Guinea Fowl 
• Hooded Vulture 
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Moorhen
• Lesser Seedcracker
• Lilac-breasted Roller 
• Little Bee-eater 
• Little Spotted Woodpecker
• Livingstone’s Flycatcher
• Livingstone’s Turaco
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Mangrove Kingfisher
• Marabou Stork 
• Marsh Tchagra
• Meves’s Starling
• Miombo Scrub Robin 
• Mosque Swallow
• Narina Trogon
• Pale Batis
• Palm-nut Vulture
• Pel’s Fishing Owl
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher 
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pink-throated Twinspot
• Pin-tailed Whydah 
• Purple-banded Sunbird
• Racket-tailed roller
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-billed Hornbill
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Red-throated Twinspot
• Red-winged Warbler
• Rock Pratincole
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Secretary Bird  
• Senegal Coucal
• Short-winged Cisticola
• Shy Albatross 
• Sooty Albatross
• Southern Carmine Bee-eater
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Southern Red Bishop
• Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill 
• Stierling’s Woodpecker
• Striated Heron
• Swahili Sparrow
• Tawny-flanked Prinia
• Trumpeter Hornbill
• Village Weaver 
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Sunbird
• White-breasted Cuckooshrike
• White-browed Coucal
• White-browed Robin-chat
• White-crowned Lapwing
• White-fronted Bee-eater
• White-headed Saw-wing
• Woodland Kingfisher 
• Woodward’s Batis
• Yellow-bellied Greenbul
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Yellow-throated Petronia

Non-native Birds

• Collared Flycatcher
• Common Myna
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Gray Wagtail
• Greater Whitethroat
• House Crow
• House Sparrow
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

Some of Mozambique’s best places to go birdwatching include Gorongosa National Park, Bazaruto Archipelago, and Niassa Reserve. The best time to go birding in Mozambique is during the dry season from May to October.