Mozambique bird checklist

715 bird species in 105 families have been recorded in Mozambique, according to eBird; about 451 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in Mozambique right now

  1. 1Great Egret
  2. 2Western Cattle-Egret
  3. 3Great Cormorant
  4. 4Collared Pratincole
  5. 5African Openbill
  6. 6Gray Heron
  7. 7Village Weaver
  8. 8Spur-winged Goose
  9. 9House Sparrow
  10. 10Common Bulbul
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Mozambique bird checklist

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Ostriches

  • Common Ostrich

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • White-backed Duck
  • Knob-billed Duck
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Spur-winged Goose
  • African Pygmy-Goose
  • Blue-billed Teal
  • Cape Shoveler
  • African Black Duck
  • Yellow-billed Duck
  • Cape Teal
  • Red-billed Duck
  • Southern Pochard

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl
  • Southern Crested Guineafowl

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Indian Peafowl
  • Crested Francolin
  • Coqui Francolin
  • Shelley's Francolin
  • Blue Quail
  • Common Quail
  • Harlequin Quail
  • Natal Spurfowl
  • Hildebrandt's Spurfowl
  • Swainson's Spurfowl
  • Red-necked Spurfowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Rameron Pigeon
  • Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon
  • Lemon Dove
  • Dusky Turtle-Dove
  • Mourning Collared-Dove
  • Red-eyed Dove
  • Ring-necked Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
  • Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
  • Tambourine Dove
  • Namaqua Dove
  • African Green-Pigeon

Sandgrouse

  • Double-banded Sandgrouse

Bustards

  • Kori Bustard
  • Denham's Bustard
  • Red-crested Bustard
  • Black-bellied Bustard

Turacos

  • Gray Go-away-bird
  • Purple-crested Turaco
  • Livingstone's Turaco

Cuckoos

  • Senegal Coucal
  • Burchell's Coucal
  • Black Coucal
  • Green Malkoha
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo
  • Levaillant's Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Thick-billed Cuckoo
  • Dideric Cuckoo
  • Klaas's Cuckoo
  • African Emerald Cuckoo
  • Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
  • Black Cuckoo
  • Red-chested Cuckoo
  • African Cuckoo
  • Madagascar Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Pennant-winged Nightjar
  • Eurasian Nightjar
  • Fiery-necked Nightjar
  • Montane Nightjar
  • Swamp Nightjar
  • Freckled Nightjar
  • Square-tailed Nightjar

Swifts

  • Mottled Spinetail
  • Bat-like Spinetail
  • Scarce Swift
  • Alpine Swift
  • Mottled Swift
  • Common Swift
  • African Swift
  • Forbes-Watson's Swift
  • Little Swift
  • Horus Swift
  • White-rumped Swift
  • African Palm Swift

Flufftails

  • Buff-spotted Flufftail
  • Red-chested Flufftail
  • Streaky-breasted Flufftail

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • African Rail
  • Corn Crake
  • African Crake
  • Spotted Crake
  • Lesser Moorhen
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Red-knobbed Coot
  • Allen's Gallinule
  • African Swamphen
  • Striped Crake
  • Black Crake
  • Baillon's Crake

Finfoots

  • African Finfoot

Cranes

  • Gray Crowned-Crane
  • Wattled Crane

Thick-knees

  • Spotted Thick-knee
  • Water Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher
  • African Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Three-banded Plover
  • Long-toed Lapwing
  • Blacksmith Lapwing
  • Spur-winged Lapwing
  • White-crowned Lapwing
  • Senegal Lapwing
  • Crowned Lapwing
  • Wattled Lapwing
  • Caspian Plover
  • Tibetan Sand-Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Kittlitz's Plover
  • Chestnut-banded Plover
  • White-fronted Plover

Painted-Snipes

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

Jacanas

  • Lesser Jacana
  • African Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Great Snipe
  • African Snipe
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Great Knot
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Red-necked Stint
  • Sanderling
  • Little Stint
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper

Buttonquail

  • Small Buttonquail
  • Black-rumped Buttonquail

Crab-Plover

  • Crab-Plover

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Bronze-winged Courser
  • Three-banded Courser
  • Temminck's Courser
  • Madagascar Pratincole
  • Collared Pratincole

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Brown Skua
  • South Polar Skua

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Sabine's Gull
  • Gray-hooded Gull
  • Hartlaub's Gull
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Kelp Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • African Skimmer
  • Brown Noddy
  • Lesser Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Little Tern
  • Saunders's Tern
  • Damara Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • Black Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Black-naped Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Lesser Crested Tern
  • Great Crested Tern

Flamingos

  • Greater Flamingo
  • Lesser Flamingo

Grebes

  • Little Grebe

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Albatrosses

  • Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
  • White-capped Albatross
  • Black-browed Albatross

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel
  • White-faced Storm-Petrel
  • Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • European Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Pintado Petrel
  • Great-winged Petrel
  • Soft-plumaged Petrel
  • Blue Petrel
  • Bulwer's Petrel
  • White-chinned Petrel
  • Cory's Shearwater
  • Flesh-footed Shearwater
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Tropical Shearwater

Storks

  • African Openbill
  • Black Stork
  • Abdim's Stork
  • African Woolly-necked Stork
  • White Stork
  • Saddle-billed Stork
  • Marabou Stork
  • Yellow-billed Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Cape Gannet
  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Masked Booby

Anhingas

  • African Darter

Cormorants and Shags

  • Reed Cormorant
  • Cape Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis
  • African Sacred Ibis
  • Hadada Ibis
  • African Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Eurasian Bittern
  • Dwarf Bittern
  • Little Bittern
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Slaty Egret
  • Black Heron
  • Little Egret
  • Western Reef-Heron
  • White-backed Night Heron
  • Little Heron
  • Rufous-bellied Heron
  • Squacco Heron
  • Malagasy Pond-Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Yellow-billed Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Purple Heron
  • Black-headed Heron
  • Goliath Heron

Hamerkop

  • Hamerkop

Pelicans

  • Great White Pelican
  • Pink-backed Pelican

Secretarybird

  • Secretarybird

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Black-winged Kite
  • African Harrier-Hawk
  • Palm-nut Vulture
  • African Cuckoo-Hawk
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • White-headed Vulture
  • Lappet-faced Vulture
  • Hooded Vulture
  • White-backed Vulture
  • Cape Griffon
  • Rüppell's Griffon
  • Bateleur
  • Western Banded Snake-Eagle
  • Southern Banded Snake-Eagle
  • Black-chested Snake-Eagle
  • Brown Snake-Eagle
  • Crowned Eagle
  • Martial Eagle
  • Long-crested Eagle
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle
  • Wahlberg's Eagle
  • Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
  • Booted Eagle
  • Steppe Eagle
  • Tawny Eagle
  • Verreaux's Eagle
  • African Hawk-Eagle
  • Bat Hawk
  • Gabar Goshawk
  • Dark Chanting-Goshawk
  • Lizard Buzzard
  • African Goshawk
  • Little Sparrowhawk
  • Shikra
  • Ovambo Sparrowhawk
  • Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
  • Black Goshawk
  • Western Marsh Harrier
  • African Marsh Harrier
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Montagu's Harrier
  • Black Kite
  • African Fish-Eagle
  • Augur Buzzard
  • Jackal Buzzard
  • Common Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • Western Barn Owl

Owls

  • African Scops-Owl
  • Southern White-faced Owl
  • Spotted Eagle-Owl
  • Cape Eagle-Owl
  • Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
  • Pel's Fishing-Owl
  • Pearl-spotted Owlet
  • African Barred Owlet
  • African Wood-Owl
  • Marsh Owl

Mousebirds

  • Speckled Mousebird
  • Red-faced Mousebird

Trogons

  • Narina Trogon
  • Bar-tailed Trogon

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills

  • Green Woodhoopoe
  • Common Scimitarbill

Hornbills

  • Southern Ground-Hornbill
  • Crowned Hornbill
  • African Gray Hornbill
  • Pale-billed Hornbill
  • Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
  • Southern Red-billed Hornbill
  • Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
  • Trumpeter Hornbill

Bee-eaters

  • White-fronted Bee-eater
  • Little Bee-eater
  • Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
  • Böhm's Bee-eater
  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  • Olive Bee-eater
  • European Bee-eater
  • Northern Carmine Bee-eater
  • Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Kingfishers

  • Half-collared Kingfisher
  • Malachite Kingfisher
  • African Pygmy Kingfisher
  • Gray-headed Kingfisher
  • Woodland Kingfisher
  • Mangrove Kingfisher
  • Brown-hooded Kingfisher
  • Striped Kingfisher
  • Giant Kingfisher
  • Pied Kingfisher

Rollers

  • European Roller
  • Lilac-breasted Roller
  • Racket-tailed Roller
  • Purple Roller
  • Broad-billed Roller

African Barbets

  • Crested Barbet
  • Green Barbet
  • White-eared Barbet
  • Whyte's Barbet
  • Green Tinkerbird
  • Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
  • Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird
  • Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
  • Pied Barbet
  • Black-collared Barbet
  • Brown-breasted Barbet

Honeyguides

  • Green-backed Honeybird
  • Brown-backed Honeybird
  • Pallid Honeyguide
  • Lesser Honeyguide
  • Scaly-throated Honeyguide
  • Greater Honeyguide

Woodpeckers

  • Red-throated Wryneck
  • Bearded Woodpecker
  • Cardinal Woodpecker
  • Stierling's Woodpecker
  • Olive Woodpecker
  • Green-backed Woodpecker
  • Bennett's Woodpecker
  • Speckle-throated Woodpecker
  • Golden-tailed Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Lesser Kestrel
  • Rock Kestrel
  • Dickinson's Kestrel
  • Red-necked Falcon
  • Amur Falcon
  • Eleonora's Falcon
  • Sooty Falcon
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • African Hobby
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Taita Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Lilian's Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Brown-necked Parrot
  • Meyer's Parrot
  • Brown-headed Parrot

African and Green Broadbills

  • African Broadbill

Pittas

  • African Pitta

Cuckooshrikes

  • Gray Cuckooshrike
  • White-breasted Cuckooshrike
  • Black Cuckooshrike

Old World Orioles

  • Eurasian Golden Oriole
  • African Golden Oriole
  • Green-headed Oriole
  • African Black-headed Oriole

Wattle-eyes and Batises

  • Black-throated Wattle-eye
  • Dark Batis
  • Cape Batis
  • Malawi Batis
  • Woodwards' Batis
  • Chinspot Batis
  • Pale Batis

Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies

  • White-crested Helmetshrike
  • Retz's Helmetshrike
  • Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
  • Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher

Bushshrikes and Allies

  • Brubru
  • Black-backed Puffback
  • Marsh Tchagra
  • Black-crowned Tchagra
  • Brown-crowned Tchagra
  • Tropical Boubou
  • Southern Boubou
  • Bokmakierie
  • Four-colored Bushshrike
  • Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
  • Olive Bushshrike
  • Black-fronted Bushshrike
  • Gray-headed Bushshrike

Drongos

  • Square-tailed Drongo
  • Fork-tailed Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

  • African Crested Flycatcher
  • African Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

  • Magpie Shrike
  • Red-backed Shrike
  • Lesser Gray Shrike
  • Northern Fiscal
  • Southern Fiscal
  • White-crowned Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • House Crow
  • Pied Crow
  • White-necked Raven

Hyliotas

  • Yellow-bellied Hyliota
  • Southern Hyliota

Fairy Flycatchers

  • White-tailed Crested Flycatcher

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Rufous-bellied Tit
  • Southern Black-Tit
  • Miombo Tit

Penduline-Tits

  • African Penduline-Tit

Larks

  • Dusky Lark
  • Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
  • Sabota Lark
  • Fawn-colored Lark
  • Monotonous Lark
  • Flappet Lark
  • Rufous-naped Lark
  • Red-capped Lark

Nicators

  • Eastern Nicator

African Warblers

  • Red-capped Crombec
  • Red-faced Crombec
  • Long-billed Crombec
  • Moustached Grass-Warbler
  • Cape Grassbird
  • Kretschmer's Longbill

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Yellow-bellied Eremomela
  • Green-capped Eremomela
  • Burnt-neck Eremomela
  • Roberts's Warbler
  • African Tailorbird
  • Long-billed Tailorbird
  • Stierling's Wren-Warbler
  • Green-backed Camaroptera
  • Bar-throated Apalis
  • Namuli Apalis
  • Yellow-breasted Apalis
  • Rudd's Apalis
  • Black-headed Apalis
  • Chirinda Apalis
  • Tawny-flanked Prinia
  • Red-winged Prinia
  • Red-faced Cisticola
  • Singing Cisticola
  • Rock-loving Cisticola
  • Rattling Cisticola
  • Wailing Cisticola
  • Rufous-winged Cisticola
  • Croaking Cisticola
  • Piping Cisticola
  • Siffling Cisticola
  • Zitting Cisticola
  • Desert Cisticola
  • Cloud Cisticola
  • Pale-crowned Cisticola
  • Wing-snapping Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • African Yellow-Warbler
  • Olive-tree Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Marsh Warbler
  • Common Reed Warbler
  • Basra Reed Warbler
  • Lesser Swamp Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • River Warbler
  • Fan-tailed Grassbird
  • Barratt's Warbler
  • Evergreen-forest Warbler
  • Little Rush Warbler

Swallows

  • Black Sawwing
  • Gray-rumped Swallow
  • Mascarene Martin
  • Banded Martin
  • Plain Martin
  • Bank Swallow
  • Red-throated Crag-Martin
  • Southern Crag-Martin
  • Montane Blue Swallow
  • Pearl-breasted Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • White-throated Swallow
  • Wire-tailed Swallow
  • Western House-Martin
  • Greater Striped Swallow
  • Lesser Striped Swallow
  • Rufous-chested Swallow
  • Mosque Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Sombre Greenbul
  • Yellow-bellied Greenbul
  • Black-browed Mountain Greenbul
  • Olive-headed Greenbul
  • Stripe-cheeked Greenbul
  • Little Greenbul
  • Tiny Greenbul
  • Yellow-streaked Greenbul
  • Terrestrial Brownbul
  • Gray-olive Greenbul
  • Fischer's Greenbul
  • Cabanis's Greenbul
  • Common Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Willow Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler

Yellow Flycatchers

  • Livingstone's Flycatcher

Sylviid Warblers and Allies

  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • African Hill Babbler
  • Greater Whitethroat

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

  • Cape White-eye
  • Southern Yellow White-eye

Laughingthrushes and Allies

  • Arrow-marked Babbler

Spotted Creepers

  • African Spotted Creeper

Oxpeckers

  • Red-billed Oxpecker
  • Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Starlings

  • Wattled Starling
  • Common Myna
  • Violet-backed Starling
  • Red-winged Starling
  • Black-bellied Starling
  • Burchell's Starling
  • Meves's Starling
  • Lesser Blue-eared Starling
  • Greater Blue-eared Starling
  • Cape Starling

Thrushes and Allies

  • Boulder Chat
  • Spotted Ground-Thrush
  • Orange Ground-Thrush
  • Groundscraper Thrush
  • Kurrichane Thrush
  • Olive Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • African Dusky Flycatcher
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Pale Flycatcher
  • Gray Tit-Flycatcher
  • Ashy Flycatcher
  • Fiscal Flycatcher
  • Southern Black-Flycatcher
  • Brown Scrub-Robin
  • Bearded Scrub-Robin
  • White-browed Scrub-Robin
  • Olive-flanked Robin-Chat
  • Cape Robin-Chat
  • White-throated Robin-Chat
  • White-browed Robin-Chat
  • Red-capped Robin-Chat
  • Collared Palm-Thrush
  • White-starred Robin
  • Swynnerton's Robin
  • Thyolo Alethe
  • White-chested Alethe
  • East Coast Akalat
  • Thrush Nightingale
  • Collared Flycatcher
  • Miombo Rock-Thrush
  • Whinchat
  • African Stonechat
  • Mocking Cliff-Chat
  • Arnot's Chat
  • Capped Wheatear
  • Familiar Chat

Sugarbirds

  • Gurney's Sugarbird

Dapple-throat and Allies

  • Dapple-throat

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

  • Plain-backed Sunbird
  • Western Violet-backed Sunbird
  • Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird
  • Collared Sunbird
  • Olive Sunbird
  • Mouse-colored Sunbird
  • Amethyst Sunbird
  • Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  • Bronze Sunbird
  • Malachite Sunbird
  • Eastern Miombo Sunbird
  • Neergaard's Sunbird
  • Forest Double-collared Sunbird
  • Marico Sunbird
  • Shelley's Sunbird
  • Purple-banded Sunbird
  • White-bellied Sunbird
  • Variable Sunbird
  • Copper Sunbird

Weavers and Allies

  • Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
  • White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
  • Red-headed Weaver
  • Bertram's Weaver
  • Spectacled Weaver
  • African Golden-Weaver
  • Holub's Golden-Weaver
  • Southern Brown-throated Weaver
  • Lesser Masked-Weaver
  • Southern Masked-Weaver
  • Village Weaver
  • Dark-backed Weaver
  • Olive-headed Weaver
  • Red-headed Quelea
  • Red-billed Quelea
  • Southern Red Bishop
  • Zanzibar Red Bishop
  • Black-winged Bishop
  • Yellow-crowned Bishop
  • Yellow Bishop
  • White-winged Widowbird
  • Yellow-mantled Widowbird
  • Red-collared Widowbird
  • Fan-tailed Widowbird
  • Long-tailed Widowbird
  • Grosbeak Weaver

Waxbills and Allies

  • Bronze Mannikin
  • Magpie Mannikin
  • Black-and-white Mannikin
  • Yellow-bellied Waxbill
  • Green-backed Twinspot
  • Red-faced Crimsonwing
  • Black-tailed Waxbill
  • Common Waxbill
  • Crimson-rumped Waxbill
  • Quailfinch
  • Locustfinch
  • Cut-throat
  • Zebra Waxbill
  • Violet-eared Waxbill
  • Southern Cordonbleu
  • Lesser Seedcracker
  • Green-winged Pytilia
  • Orange-winged Pytilia
  • Red-throated Twinspot
  • Pink-throated Twinspot
  • Red-billed Firefinch
  • African Firefinch
  • Jameson's Firefinch

Whydahs and Indigobirds

  • Pin-tailed Whydah
  • Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
  • Eastern Paradise-Whydah
  • Shaft-tailed Whydah
  • Village Indigobird
  • Dusky Indigobird
  • Purple Indigobird
  • Green Indigobird
  • Parasitic Weaver

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow
  • Cape Sparrow
  • Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
  • Southern Gray-headed Sparrow
  • Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Cape Wagtail
  • Mountain Wagtail
  • Gray Wagtail
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • African Pied Wagtail
  • African Pipit
  • Woodland Pipit
  • Plain-backed Pipit
  • Striped Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Short-tailed Pipit
  • Bush Pipit
  • Orange-throated Longclaw
  • Yellow-throated Longclaw
  • Rosy-throated Longclaw

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Yellow-fronted Canary
  • Southern Citril
  • Lemon-breasted Seedeater
  • Brimstone Canary
  • Black-eared Seedeater
  • Streaky-headed Seedeater
  • Reichard's Seedeater
  • Cape Canary

Old World Buntings

  • Cabanis's Bunting
  • Golden-breasted Bunting
  • Cape Bunting
  • Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Most common birds in Mozambique

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of Mozambique’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Great EgretArdea alba
  2. Western Cattle-EgretArdea ibis
  3. Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
  4. Collared PratincoleGlareola pratincola
  5. African OpenbillAnastomus lamelligerus
  6. Gray HeronArdea cinerea
  7. Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
  8. Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensis
  9. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  10. Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
  11. African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
  12. Great White PelicanPelecanus onocrotalus
  13. Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  14. Pied CrowCorvus albus
  15. Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanus
  16. Gray-rumped SwallowPseudhirundo griseopyga
  17. Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild
  18. Kittlitz's PloverAnarhynchus pecuarius
  19. Lilac-breasted RollerCoracias caudatus
  20. African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus

Largest bird families in Mozambique

Among its regular birds.

  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites28
  • Cisticolas and Allies21
  • Weavers and Allies19
  • Waxbills and Allies17
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers17
  • Sandpipers and Allies16
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns15
  • Plovers and Lapwings15

Reported in the last 30 days

396 species reported to eBird in Mozambique in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Lilac-breasted Roller, Village Weaver, Gray Heron, Common Bulbul, African Openbill, African Pipit, Spur-winged Goose, Spectacled Weaver, Collared Pratincole, Great Cormorant, African Sacred Ibis, Great Egret, Rosy-throated Longclaw, Western Cattle-Egret, Purple Heron, Pied Kingfisher, Pied Crow, Pink-backed Pelican, Cape Starling, Great White Pelican, Gray-rumped Swallow, Hamerkop, House Sparrow, Black Kite, Blacksmith Lapwing, Yellow-billed Egret, Reed Cormorant, Black-headed Heron, Bronze Mannikin, Kittlitz's Plover, Little Egret, Laughing Dove, Fan-tailed Widowbird, African Woolly-necked Stork, Wire-tailed Swallow, African Marsh Harrier, Southern Masked-Weaver, Eurasian Whimbrel, African Palm Swift, Common Waxbill, …