Birds of Niger

List of Common Birds Found in Niger

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Roller
• African Collared Dove
• African Collared Swift
• African Darter
• African Fish Eagle 
• African Golden Oriole
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Hobby
• African Jacana
• African Mourning Dove
• African Openbill
• African Palm Swift
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pipit
• African Pygmy Falcon
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Silverbill
• African Swamphen
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• Allen’s Gallinule
• Alpine Swift
• Barbary Falcon
• Bearded Barbet
• Beautiful Sunbird 
• Black-bellied Bustard
• Black Crowned Crane
• Black Heron
• Black Scimitarbill
• Black Scrub Robin
• Black Stork
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-breasted kingfisher
• Blue-naped Mousebird
• Bronze-winged Courser
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Bruce’s Green Pigeon
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark
• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
• Chestnut-bellied Starling
• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver
• Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting
• Common Bulbul
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Greenshank
• Common Ostrich
• Common Sandpiper
• Cream-colored Courser
• Crested Lark
• Crowned Lapwing
• Dark Chanting Goshawk
• Denham’s Bustard
• Desert Cisticola
• Double-spurred Francolin
• Dusky Turtle Dove
• Eastern Chanting Goshawk
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• European Bee-eater
• European Roller
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Fulvous Chatterer
• Gambaga Flycatcher
• Garganey
• Giant Kingfisher
• Golden-breasted Bunting
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Gray-backed Camaroptera
• Gray-backed Fiscal
• Gray-headed Bushshrike
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Grayish Eagle-owl
• Gray Kestrel
• Gray-necked Picathartes
• Greater Painted-snipe
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Green Woodhoopoe
• Hadada Ibis
• Hamerkop
• Hartlaub’s Duck
• Helmeted Guineafowl 
• Hooded Vulture 
• Intermediate Egret
• Isabelline Shrike
• Kordofan Lark
• Lanner Falcon
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Kestrel
• Little Bee-eater 
• Little Bittern
• Little Grebe
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Weaver
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Nightjar
• Madagascar Bee-eater
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mosque Swallow
• Namaqua Dove
• Namaqua Sandgrouse
• Northern Anteater Chat
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Northern Crombec
• Northern Fiscal
• Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Red-billed Hornbill 
• Northern Red Bishop
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern White-crowned Shrike
• Nubian Bustard
• Olive Bee-eater
• Pallid Harrier
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• Piapiac
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher 
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pratincole
• Purple Heron
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Quelea
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-necked Falcon
• Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
• Red-throated Bee Eater 
• Red-winged Warbler
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Sahelian Woodpecker
• Senegal Coucal
• Senegal Thick-knee
• Speckled Pigeon 
• Splendid Starling
• Standard-winged Nightjar
• Stone Partridge
• Striped Kingfisher
• Village Weaver 
• Water Thick-knee
• White-backed Vulture
• White-billed Buffalo Weaver
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Yellow-crowned Gonolek

Non-native Birds

• Collared Flycatcher
• Common Nightingale
• Fanti Sawwing
• Gray Wagtail
• House Sparrow
• Rüppell’s Warbler
• Song Thrush
• Spectacled Warbler

Some of the best birding sites in Niger include Aïr Mountains National Park, Djado Plateau, and W National Park. The last one is notable as it is a UNESCO World Heritage site.