ETHIOPIA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
Accessible Species
AFRICA
ETHIOPIA
| # Species: | 879 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 846 |
| # Endemics: | 21 |
| # Near Endemics: | 25 |
OTHER COUNTRIES
IN AFRICA
BIRDING LOCALES
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 18 |
| LC | Local | 13 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 23 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 84 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 24 |
| V | Vulnerable | 17 |
| EN | Endangered | 12 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 6 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.
List of all specialty birds in the country occurring in locales typically visited by birding tours. Specialties include endemics and globally threatened, vulnerable or endangered. Table indicates whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. See sidebar for meaning of location codes and symbols associated with common names.*
| 1 | Somali Ostrich | Struthio molybdophanes | V | |
| 2 | Blue-winged Goose | Cyanochen cyanoptera | E | NT |
| 3 | /Common Pochard/ | Aythya ferina | V | |
| 4 | /Ferruginous Duck/ | Aythya nyroca | NT | |
| 5 | Maccoa Duck | Oxyura maccoa | EN | |
| 6 | Coqui Francolin | Campocolinus coqui | RR | |
| 7 | Orange River Francolin | Scleroptera levaillantoides | RR | |
| 8 | Moorland Francolin | Scleroptera psilolaemus | E | NT |
| 9 | Chestnut-naped Spurfowl | Pternistis castaneicollis | RR | |
| 10 | Erckel's Spurfowl | Pternistis erckelii | RR | |
| 11 | Scaly Spurfowl | Pternistis squamatus | RR | |
| 12 | Harwood's Spurfowl | Pternistis harwoodi | E | NT |
| 13 | /Lesser Flamingo/ | Phoenicoparrus minor | V | |
| 14 | White-collared Pigeon | Columba albitorques | NE | |
| 15 | /European Turtle-Dove/ | Streptopelia turtur | V | |
| 16 | African Collared-Dove | Streptopelia roseogrisea | RR | |
| 17 | White-winged Collared-Dove | Streptopelia reichenowi | RR | NT |
| 18 | Black-billed Wood-Dove | Turtur abyssinicus | RR | |
| 19 | African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | RR | |
| 20 | Spotted Sandgrouse | Pterocles senegallus | RR | |
| 21 | Arabian Bustard | Ardeotis arabs | NT | |
| 22 | Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | NT | |
| 23 | Hartlaub's Bustard | Lissotis hartlaubii | RR | |
| 24 | White-cheeked Turaco | Menelikkornis leucotis | NE | |
| 25 | Prince Ruspoli's Turaco | Menelikkornis ruspolii | E | NT |
| 26 | Nubian Nightjar | Caprimulgus nubicus | RR | |
| 27 | Donaldson Smith's Nightjar | Caprimulgus donaldsoni | RR | |
| 28 | Long-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus climacurus | RR | |
| 29 | Rouget's Rail | Rougetius rougetii | NE | NT |
| 30 | Black Crowned-Crane | Balearica pavonina | V | |
| 31 | Wattled Crane | Bugeranus carunculatus | V | |
| 32 | Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | RR | |
| 33 | Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris | LC | |
| 34 | Spot-breasted Lapwing | Vanellus melanocephalus | E | |
| 35 | /Sociable Lapwing/ | Vanellus gregarius | RR | CR |
| 36 | /Eurasian Curlew/ | Numenius arquata | NT | |
| 37 | /Black-tailed Godwit/ | Limosa limosa | NT | |
| 38 | /Great Snipe/ | Gallinago media | NT | |
| 39 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea | NT | |
| 40 | |Black-winged Pratincole| | Glareola nordmanni | NT | |
| 41 | African Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia microscelis | NT | |
| 42 | Shoebill | Balaeniceps rex | V | |
| 43 | Wattled Ibis | Bostrychia carunculata | NE | |
| 44 | Secretarybird | Sagittarius serpentarius | EN | |
| 45 | Scissor-tailed Kite | Chelictinia riocourii | V | |
| 46 | Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | NT | |
| 47 | Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | EN | |
| 48 | African Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda cuculoides | RR | |
| 49 | White-headed Vulture | Trigonoceps occipitalis | CR | |
| 50 | Lappet-faced Vulture | Torgos tracheliotos | EN | |
| 51 | Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | CR | |
| 52 | White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | CR | |
| 53 | Rueppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli | CR | |
| 54 | Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | EN | |
| 55 | Crowned Eagle | Stephanoaetus coronatus | NT | |
| 56 | Martial Eagle | Polemaetus bellicosus | EN | |
| 57 | /Greater Spotted Eagle/ | Clanga clanga | V | |
| 58 | Tawny Eagle | Aquila rapax | V | |
| 59 | /Steppe Eagle/ | Aquila nipalensis | EN | |
| 60 | /Imperial Eagle/ | Aquila heliaca | V | |
| 61 | Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | LC | |
| 62 | /Pallid Harrier/ | Circus macrourus | NT | |
| 63 | Mountain Buzzard | Buteo oreophilus | NT | |
| 64 | Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | RR | |
| 65 | Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill | Bucorvus abyssinicus | V | |
| 66 | Crowned Hornbill | Lophoceros alboterminatus | RR | |
| 67 | Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | LC | |
| 68 | Red-throated Bee-eater | Merops bulocki | RR | |
| 69 | Ethiopian Bee-eater | Merops lafresnayii | E | |
| 70 | #African Green Bee-eater# | Merops viridissimus | RR | |
| 71 | Yellow-breasted Barbet | Trachyphonus margaritatus | RR | |
| 72 | Banded Barbet | Lybius undatus | NE | |
| 73 | Green-backed Honeyguide | Prodotiscus zambesiae | RR | |
| 74 | Scaly-throated Honeyguide | Indicator variegatus | RR | |
| 75 | Abyssinian Woodpecker | Dendropicos abyssinicus | NE | |
| 76 | Brown-backed Woodpecker | Dendropicos obsoletus | RR | |
| 77 | African Gray Woodpecker | Dendropicos goertae | RR | |
| 78 | Green-backed Woodpecker | Campethera cailliautii | RR | |
| 79 | Red-necked Falcon | Falco chicquera | NT | |
| 80 | |Red-footed Falcon| | Falco vespertinus | V | |
| 81 | |Eleonora's Falcon| | Falco eleonorae | LC | |
| 82 | |Sooty Falcon| | Falco concolor | V | |
| 83 | /Saker Falcon/ | Falco cherrug | EN | |
| 84 | Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | RR | |
| 85 | Black-winged Lovebird | Agapornis taranta | NE | |
| 86 | Yellow-fronted Parrot | Poicephalus flavifrons | E | |
| 87 | Ethiopian Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus monacha | NE | |
| 88 | Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | RR | |
| 89 | Red-naped Bushshrike | Laniarius ruficeps | NE | |
| 90 | Black-headed Gonolek | Laniarius erythrogaster | RR | |
| 91 | /Woodchat Shrike/ | Lanius senator | NT | |
| 92 | Stresemann's Bush-Crow | Zavattariornis stresemanni | E | EN |
| 93 | Thick-billed Raven | Corvus crassirostris | NE | |
| 94 | Yellow-bellied Hyliota | Hyliota flavigaster | RR | |
| 95 | White-backed Black-Tit | Melaniparus leuconotus | NE | |
| 96 | Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix nigriceps | RR | |
| 97 | Liben Lark | Heteromirafra archeri | E | CR |
| 98 | Singing Bushlark | Mirafra javanica | RR | |
| 99 | Red-winged Lark | Mirafra hypermetra | RR | |
| 100 | Gillett's Lark | Mirafra gilletti | NE | |
| 101 | /Greater Short-toed Lark/ | Calandrella brachydactyla | RR | |
| 102 | Blanford's Lark | Calandrella blanfordi | NE | |
| 103 | Short-tailed Lark | Pseudalaemon fremantlii | RR | |
| 104 | Somali Short-toed Lark | Alaudala somalica | RR | |
| 105 | Masked Lark | Spizocorys personata | NE | |
| 106 | Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | RR | |
| 107 | Boran Cisticola | Cisticola bodessa | LC | |
| 108 | Ethiopian Cisticola | Cisticola lugubris | NE | |
| 109 | Winding Cisticola | Cisticola marginatus | RR | |
| 110 | Desert Cisticola | Cisticola aridulus | RR | |
| 111 | |Basra Reed Warbler| | Acrocephalus griseldis | EN | |
| 112 | White-tailed Swallow | Hirundo megaensis | E | V |
| 113 | Abyssinian Catbird | Sylvia galinieri | E | |
| 114 | /Menetries's Warbler/ | Curruca mystacea | RR | |
| 115 | Heuglin's White-eye | Zosterops poliogastrus | NE | |
| 116 | Northern Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | RR | |
| 117 | Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | RR | |
| 118 | Cretzschmar's Babbler | Turdoides leucocephala | RR | |
| 119 | White-billed Starling | Onychognathus albirostris | NE | |
| 120 | Somali Starling | Onychognathus blythii | RR | |
| 121 | Sharpe's Starling | Pholia sharpii | RR | |
| 122 | Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | RR | |
| 123 | Ethiopian Thrush | Turdus simensis | E | |
| 124 | Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | RR | |
| 125 | Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbeus | LC | |
| 126 | Silverbird | Melaenornis semipartitus | RR | |
| 127 | Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis chocolatinus | NE | |
| 128 | /Black Scrub-Robin/ | Cercotrichas podobe | RR | |
| 129 | \Red-capped Robin-Chat\ | Cossypha natalensis | RR | |
| 130 | Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | RR | |
| 131 | White-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha albicapillus | RR | |
| 132 | /Black Redstart/ | Phoenicurus ochruros | RR | |
| 133 | White-winged Cliff-Chat | Monticola semirufa | NE | |
| 134 | Rueppell's Chat | Myrmecocichla melaena | NE | |
| 135 | White-fronted Black-Chat | Oenanthe albifrons | RR | |
| 136 | Blackstart | Oenanthe melanura | RR | |
| 137 | Sombre Rock Chat | Oenanthe dubia | E | |
| 138 | Brown-tailed Chat | Oenanthe scotocerca | RR | |
| 139 | Nile Valley Sunbird | Hedydipna metallica | RR | |
| 140 | Olive Sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea | RR | |
| 141 | Black-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris nectarinioides | RR | |
| 142 | Purple-banded Sunbird | Cinnyris bifasciatus | RR | |
| 143 | Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus | RR | |
| 144 | White-billed Buffalo-Weaver | Bubalornis albirostris | RR | |
| 145 | Speckle-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes frontalis | RR | |
| 146 | Gray-headed Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita arnaudi | RR | |
| 147 | Black-capped Social-Weaver | Pseudonigrita cabanisi | RR | |
| 148 | Northern Masked-Weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | LC | |
| 149 | Salvadori's Weaver | Ploceus dichrocephalus | NE | |
| 150 | Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus | RR | |
| 151 | Compact Weaver | Pachyphantes superciliosus | RR | |
| 152 | Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | RR | |
| 153 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | RR | |
| 154 | Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor | RR | |
| 155 | Green-backed Twinspot | Mandingoa nitidula | LC | |
| 156 | Black-faced Waxbill | Brunhilda erythronotos | RR | |
| 157 | Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | RR | |
| 158 | Gray-headed Silverbill | Odontospiza griseicapilla | RR | |
| 159 | Blue-capped Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus cyanocephalus | RR | |
| 160 | Orange-winged Pytilia | Pytilia afra | RR | |
| 161 | Red-billed Pytilia | Pytilia lineata | NE | |
| 162 | Jameson's Firefinch | Lagonosticta rhodopareia | LC | |
| 163 | Black-faced Firefinch | Lagonosticta larvata | LC | |
| 164 | Sahel Paradise-Whydah | Vidua orientalis | RR | |
| 165 | Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah | Vidua interjecta | RR | |
| 166 | Baka Indigobird | Vidua larvaticola | LC | |
| 167 | Parasitic Weaver | Anomalospiza imberbis | LC | |
| 168 | Shelley's Rufous Sparrow | Passer shelleyi | LC | |
| 169 | /Pale Rockfinch/ | Carpospiza brachydactyla | RR | |
| 170 | Bush Pipit | Anthus caffer | RR | |
| 171 | Abyssinian Longclaw | Macronyx flavicollis | E | NT |
| 172 | White-rumped Seedeater | Crithagra leucopygius | RR | |
| 173 | Yellow-rumped Serin | Crithagra xanthopygius | NE | |
| 174 | White-bellied Canary | Crithagra dorsostriatus | RR | |
| 175 | Yellow-throated Serin | Crithagra flavigula | E | EN |
| 176 | Salvadori's Serin | Crithagra xantholaemus | E | |
| 177 | Reichard's Seedeater | Crithagra reichardi | RR | |
| 178 | Ankober Serin | Crithagra ankoberensis | E | V |
| 179 | Ethiopian Siskin | Serinus nigriceps | E | |
| 180 | Golden-breasted Bunting | Emberiza flaviventris | RR |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.