SPEKE'S BAY
TANZANIA
LOCALE
| Altitude (m): | 1200 |
| # Species*: | 204 |
| # Excl Vagrants*: | 204 |
| # Endemics*: | 1 |
| # Near Endemics*: | 1 |
| *Based on partial or incomplete data. | |
| Habitat: Freshwater lake, swamp, grassland | |
BIRD CHECKLIST
The table below lists species recorded at this locale but does not indicate frequency of occurrence there. It does indicate 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. The list is based on available data and may be incomplete.*
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| 1 | White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | |
| 2 | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | |
| 3 | White-backed Duck | Thalassornis leuconotus | |
| 4 | Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | |
| 5 | Blue-billed Teal | Spatula hottentota | |
| 6 | Yellow-billed Duck | Anas undulata | |
| 7 | Red-billed Duck | Anas erythrorhyncha | |
| 8 | \Southern Pochard\ | Netta erythrophthalma | |
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| 9 | Gray-breasted Spurfowl | Pternistis rufopictus | |
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| 10 | Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
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| 11 | Mourning Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decipiens | |
| 12 | Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | |
| 13 | Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | |
| 14 | Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | |
| 15 | African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | |
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| 16 | Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster | |
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| 17 | Bare-faced Go-away-bird | Corythaixoides personatus | |
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| 18 | Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | |
| 19 | White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus | |
| 20 | Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | |
| 21 | Klaas's Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas | |
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| 22 | \Pennant-winged Nightjar\ | Caprimulgus vexillarius | |
| 23 | /Eurasian Nightjar/ | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| 24 | Square-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus fossii | |
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| 25 | |Common Swift| | Apus apus | |
| 26 | Little Swift | Apus affinis | |
| 27 | African Palm Swift | Cypsiurus parvus | |
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| 28 | Lesser Moorhen | Gallinula angulata | |
| 29 | Black Crake | Zapornia flavirostra | |
| 30 | Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
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| 31 | Gray Crowned-Crane | Balearica regulorum | |
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| 32 | Water Thick-knee | Burhinus vermiculatus | |
| 33 | Spotted Thick-knee | Burhinus capensis | |
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| 34 | Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| 35 | Long-toed Lapwing | Vanellus crassirostris | |
| 36 | Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | |
| 37 | Senegal Lapwing | Vanellus lugubris | |
| 38 | Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus | |
| 39 | /Lesser Sand-Plover/ | Charadrius mongolus | |
| 40 | /Caspian Plover/ | Charadrius asiaticus | |
| 41 | /Common Ringed Plover/ | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| 42 | /Little Ringed Plover/ | Charadrius dubius | |
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| 43 | African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus | |
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| 44 | /Black-tailed Godwit/ | Limosa limosa | |
| 45 | /Ruff/ | Calidris pugnax | |
| 46 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea | |
| 47 | /Little Stint/ | Calidris minuta | |
| 48 | /Great Snipe/ | Gallinago media | |
| 49 | /Common Snipe/ | Gallinago gallinago | |
| 50 | African Snipe | Gallinago nigripennis | |
| 51 | /Common Sandpiper/ | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| 52 | /Green Sandpiper/ | Tringa ochropus | |
| 53 | /Spotted Redshank/ | Tringa erythropus | |
| 54 | /Common Greenshank/ | Tringa nebularia | |
| 55 | /Marsh Sandpiper/ | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| 56 | /Wood Sandpiper/ | Tringa glareola | |
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| 57 | Three-banded Courser | Rhinoptilus cinctus | |
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| 58 | Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | |
| 59 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| 60 | /Gull-billed Tern/ | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| 61 | /White-winged Tern/ | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| 62 | Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
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| 63 | African Openbill | Anastomus lamelligerus | |
| 64 | /Black Stork/ | Ciconia nigra | |
| 65 | Marabou Stork | Leptoptilos crumenifer | |
| 66 | Yellow-billed Stork | Mycteria ibis | |
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| 67 | African Darter | Anhinga rufa | |
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| 68 | Long-tailed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | |
| 69 | Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
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| 70 | Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| 71 | Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | |
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| 72 | Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | |
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| 73 | Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| 74 | Dwarf Bittern | Ixobrychus sturmii | |
| 75 | Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| 76 | Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | |
| 77 | Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | |
| 78 | Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| 79 | Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| 80 | Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| 81 | Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| 82 | Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | |
| 83 | Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| 84 | Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| 85 | Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| 86 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
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| 87 | Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| 88 | African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| 89 | Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | |
| 90 | African Spoonbill | Platalea alba | |
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| 91 | /Osprey/ | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| 92 | Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| 93 | /European Honey-buzzard/ | Pernis apivorus | |
| 94 | Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar | |
| 95 | /Eurasian Marsh-Harrier/ | Circus aeruginosus | |
| 96 | African Marsh-Harrier | Circus ranivorus | |
| 97 | /Black Kite/ | Milvus migrans | |
| 98 | African Fish-Eagle | Haliaeetus vocifer | |
| 99 | |Common Buzzard| | Buteo buteo | |
| 100 | Augur Buzzard | Buteo augur | |
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| 101 | Verreaux's Eagle-Owl | Ketupa lacteus | |
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| 102 | Speckled Mousebird | Colius striatus | |
| 103 | Blue-naped Mousebird | Urocolius macrourus | |
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| 104 | Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | |
| 105 | African Pygmy Kingfisher | Ispidina picta | |
| 106 | Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | |
| 107 | Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis | |
| 108 | Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |
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| 109 | Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus | |
| 110 | /Blue-cheeked Bee-eater/ | Merops persicus | |
| 111 | \Madagascar Bee-eater\ | Merops superciliosus | |
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| 112 | Usambiro Barbet** | Trachyphonus usambiro | |
| 113 | Black-billed Barbet | Lybius guifsobalito | |
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| 114 | Lesser Honeyguide | Indicator minor | |
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| 115 | Cardinal Woodpecker | Chloropicus fuscescens | |
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| 116 | /Lesser Kestrel/ | Falco naumanni | |
| 117 | |Sooty Falcon| | Falco concolor | |
| 118 | /Eurasian Hobby/ | Falco subbuteo | |
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| 119 | Black Cuckooshrike | Campephaga flava | |
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| 120 | Black-backed Puffback | Dryoscopus cubla | |
| 121 | Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | |
| 122 | Black-headed Gonolek | Laniarius erythrogaster | |
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| 123 | Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis | |
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| 124 | African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis | |
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| 125 | /Red-backed Shrike/ | Lanius collurio | |
| 126 | /Isabelline Shrike/ | Lanius isabellinus | |
| 127 | |Lesser Gray Shrike| | Lanius minor | |
| 128 | Gray-backed Fiscal | Lanius excubitoroides | |
| 129 | Long-tailed Fiscal | Lanius cabanisi | |
| 130 | White-rumped Shrike | Eurocephalus ruppelli | |
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| 131 | Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
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| 132 | Fischer's Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix leucopareia | |
| 133 | Rufous-naped Lark | Mirafra africana | |
| 134 | Flappet Lark | Mirafra rufocinnamomea | |
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| 135 | Gray-backed Camaroptera** | Camaroptera brevicaudata | |
| 136 | Gray-capped Warbler | Eminia lepida | |
| 137 | Red-faced Cisticola | Cisticola erythrops | |
| 138 | Rattling Cisticola | Cisticola chiniana | |
| 139 | Winding Cisticola | Cisticola marginatus | |
| 140 | Carruthers's Cisticola | Cisticola carruthersi | |
| 141 | Croaking Cisticola | Cisticola natalensis | |
| 142 | Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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| 143 | /Eastern Olivaceous Warbler/ | Iduna pallida | |
| 144 | /Icterine Warbler/ | Hippolais icterina | |
| 145 | /Sedge Warbler/ | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| 146 | /Common Reed Warbler/ | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
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| 147 | Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | |
| 148 | /Bank Swallow/ | Riparia riparia | |
| 149 | Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligula | |
| 150 | /Barn Swallow/ | Hirundo rustica | |
| 151 | Angola Swallow | Hirundo angolensis | |
| 152 | Wire-tailed Swallow | Hirundo smithii | |
| 153 | Lesser Striped Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica | |
| 154 | Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis | |
| 155 | /Common House-Martin/ | Delichon urbicum | |
| 156 | White-headed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne albiceps | |
| 157 | Gray-rumped Swallow | Pseudhirundo griseopyga | |
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| 158 | Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus | |
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| 159 | Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | |
| 160 | Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus | |
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| 161 | Kurrichane Thrush | Turdus libonyana | |
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| 162 | |Spotted Flycatcher| | Muscicapa striata | |
| 163 | Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | |
| 164 | Silverbird | Melaenornis semipartitus | |
| 165 | Red-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys | |
| 166 | White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | |
| 167 | Spotted Morning-Thrush | Cichladusa guttata | |
| 168 | /Whinchat/ | Saxicola rubetra | |
| 169 | /Northern Wheatear/ | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| 170 | /Isabelline Wheatear/ | Oenanthe isabellina | |
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| 171 | Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis | |
| 172 | Red-chested Sunbird | Cinnyris erythrocercus | |
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| 173 | White-headed Buffalo-Weaver | Dinemellia dinemelli | |
| 174 | Slender-billed Weaver | Ploceus pelzelni | |
| 175 | Holub's Golden-Weaver | Ploceus xanthops | |
| 176 | Northern Brown-throated Weaver | Ploceus castanops | |
| 177 | Lesser Masked-Weaver | Ploceus intermedius | |
| 178 | Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | |
| 179 | Black-headed Weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus | |
| 180 | <Golden-backed Weaver> | Ploceus jacksoni | |
| 181 | <Chestnut Weaver> | Ploceus rubiginosus | |
| 182 | Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | |
| 183 | <Red-billed Quelea> | Quelea quelea | |
| 184 | Black-winged Bishop | Euplectes hordeaceus | |
| 185 | Black Bishop | Euplectes gierowii | |
| 186 | Grosbeak Weaver | Amblyospiza albifrons | |
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| 187 | Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata | |
| 188 | Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | |
| 189 | Crimson-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda rhodopyga | |
| 190 | Red-cheeked Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus bengalus | |
| 191 | Blue-capped Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus cyanocephalus | |
| 192 | Green-winged Pytilia | Pytilia melba | |
| 193 | Red-billed Firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala | |
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| 194 | Eastern Paradise-Whydah | Vidua paradisaea | |
| 195 | Village Indigobird | Vidua chalybeata | |
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| 196 | House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| 197 | Chestnut Sparrow | Passer eminibey | |
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| 198 | /Western Yellow Wagtail/ | Motacilla flava | |
| 199 | African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp | |
| 200 | African Pipit | Anthus cinnamomeus | |
| 201 | Plain-backed Pipit | Anthus leucophrys | |
| 202 | Yellow-throated Longclaw | Macronyx croceus | |
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| 203 | Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambicus | |
| 204 | Reichenow's Seedeater | Crithagra reichenowi | |
*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.
OTHER LOCALES
PRESENCE CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| // | Boreal Visitor | 40 |
| \\ | Austral Visitor | 2 |
| || | Transient | 5 |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal | 0 |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular | 3 |
| () | Breeding Season Only | 0 |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant | 0 |
| [] | Accidental | 0 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 3 |
| V | Vulnerable | 1 |
| EN | Endangered | 1 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 0 |
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.