Checklist of the Birds of Malawi
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Location (name, coords, nearest town, other details): ______Nature’s Gift Farm Lilongwe______
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English Name / X /Little Grebe (Dabchick)
White-breasted Cormorant
Reed Cormorant / X
African Darter
White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
Common Bittern
Little Bittern
Dwarf Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-backed Night Heron
Madagascar Squacco Heron
Common Squacco Heron
Rufous-bellied Heron
Cattle Egret / X
Green-backed Heron / X
Black Egret
Little Egret
Intermediate/Yellow-billed Egret
Great White Egret
Purple Heron
Grey Heron / X
Black-headed heron / X
Goliath heron
Hamerkop / X
Yellow-billed Stork
African Openbill Stork
Black Stork
Abdim's Stork
Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Sacred Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Hadeda Ibis
African Spoonbill
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Fulvous Tree (Whistling) Duck
White-faced Tree (Whistling) Duck
White-backed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
Knob-billed Duck / X
African Pygmy Goose
African Black Duck / X
Yellow-billed Duck / X
Cape Teal
Northern Pintail
Red-billed Teal / X
Hottentot Teal
Garganey
Northern Shoveller
Southern Pochard
Maccoa Duck
African Cuckoo Hawk
European Honey Buzzard
Bat Hawk
Black-shouldered Kite / X
Yellow-billed kite / X
Black kite / X
African Fish Eagle
Palm-nut Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
White-headed Vulture
Black-breasted Snake Eagle
Brown Snake Eagle / X
Western Banded Snake Eagle
Bateleur
African Harrier Hawk / Gymnogene / X
Eurasian Marsh Harrier
African Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Gabar Goshawk / X
Black Goshawk
Red-breasted Sparrowhawk
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Little Sparrowhawk
African Goshawk
Shikra
Lizard Buzzard / X
Common Buzzard / X
Forest/Mountain Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
Wahlberg's Eagle / X
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Black (Verreaux's) Eagle
African Hawk Eagle / X
Booted Eagle / X
Ayre's Hawk Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Osprey
Secretary Bird
Lesser Kestrel / X
Rock (Common) Kestrel
Dickinson's Kestrel
Grey Kestrel
(Western) Red-footed Falcon
Amur (Eastern Red-footed) Falcon / X
Red-necked Falcon
Eurasian Hobby / X
Sooty Falcon
Lanner Falcon / X
Peregrine Falcon / X
Taita Falcon
Coqui Francolin
Crested Francolin
Shelley's Francolin
Red-winged Francolin
Hildebrandt's Francolin
Scaly Francolin
Red-necked Francolin (Spurfowl) / X
Swainson's Francolin (Spurfowl)
Common Quail
Harlequin Quail / X
Blue Quail
Crested Guineafowl
Helmeted Guineafowl / X
Kurrichane Buttonquail / X
Hottentot (Black-rumped) Buttonquail
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
Streaky-breasted Flufftail / X
Long-toed Flufftail
Red-tailed Flufftail
African Water Rail
Corncrake / X
African Crake / X
Black Crake / X
Baillon's Crake
Spotted Crake
Striped Crake
Purple Gallinule (Swamphen)
Lesser (Allen's) Gallinule
Common Moorhen
Lesser Moorhen
Red-knobbed Coot
Wattled Crane
Southern Crowned Crane
African Finfoot
Black-bellied Bustard
Denham's Bustard
African Jacana
Lesser Jacana
Painted Snipe
Black-winged Stilt
Avocet
Water Dikkop (Thick-knee)
Spotted Dikkop (Thick-knee)
Bronze-winged Courser / X
Temminck's Courser / X
Common (Collared) Pratincole
Rock Pratincole
Common Ringed Plover
Kittlitz's Plover
Three-banded Plover / X
White-fronted Plover
Caspian Plover
Grey Plover
African/Senegal Wattled Plover / X
White-crowned Plover
Blacksmith Plover
Spur-winged Plover
Lesser Black-winged Plover
Crowned Plover / X
Long-toed Plover
African/Ethiopian Snipe
Great Snipe
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Common Redshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Greenshank / X
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper / X
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper / X
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Little Stint
Curlew Sandpiper
Ruff
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Grey-headed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
African Skimmer
Double-banded Sandgrouse
African Olive/Rameron Pigeon
Bronze-naped Pigeon
Lemon/Cinnamon Dove
Pink-breasted Turtle Dove
Laughing Dove / X
African Mourning Dove
Ring-necked/Cape Turtle Dove / X
Red-eyed Dove / X
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove / X
Blue-spotted Wood Dove / X
Tambourine Dove / X
Namaqua Dove / X
African Green Pigeon / X
Brown-necked Parrot
Meyer's Parrot / X
Brown-headed Parrot
Lilian's Lovebird
Livingstone's Turaco
Schalow's Turaco / X
Purple-crested Turaco
Grey Lourie /Grey Go-away Bird / X
Bare-faced Go-away Bird
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Jacobin Cuckoo
Levaillant's/Striped Cuckoo / X
Thick-billed Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo / X
Black Cuckoo / X
Eurasian Grey Cuckoo / X
African Grey Cuckoo / X
Asian Lesser Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo / X
Klaas's Cuckoo / X
Didric Cuckoo / X
Green Coucal/ Yellowbill
African Black Coucal
Coppery-tailed Coucal
Senegal Coucal
White-Browed/ Burchell’s Coucal / X
Barn Owl
African Grass Owl
African Scops Owl
White-faced Owl / X
Cape Eagle Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl
Verreaux's/Giant Eagle Owl / X
Pel's Fishing Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet / X
Barred Owlet
Wood Owl
Marsh Owl
European Nightjar
Freckled Rock Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar / X
Mountain Nightjar
Square-tailed/Gaboon Nightjar / X
Pennant-winged Nightjar / X
Scarce Swift
Mottled Spinetail
Boehm's/Bat-like Spinetail
African Palm Swift / X
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common/Eurasian Swift / X
African Black Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
African White-rumped Swift
Speckled Mousebird / X
Red-faced Mousebird
Narina Trogon
Bar-tailed Trogon
Half-collared Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher / X
African Pygmy Kingfisher / X
Brown-hooded Kingfisher / X
Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher / X
Woodland/Senegal Kingfisher / X
Striped Kingfisher / X
Giant Kingfisher / X
Pied Kingfisher / X
Little Bee-eater / X
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Boehm's Bee-eater
Madagascar Bee-eater / X
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater / X
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
European Roller / X
Lilac-breasted Roller / X
Racket-tailed Roller
Purple Roller
Broad-billed Roller / X
Green/Red-billed Wood Hoopoe / X
Scimitarbill / X
Hoopoe / X
Red-billed Hornbill
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Pale-billed Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill / X
Trumpeter Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Southern Ground Hornbill
White-eared Barbet
Whyte's Barbet
Green Barbet
Eastern Green Tinkerbird
Moustached Green Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird / X
Yellow-rumped/Golden-rumped Tinkerbird
Miombo Pied Barbet
Black-collared Barbet / X
Brown-breasted Barbet
Black-backed Barbet
Crested Barbet
Green-backed Honeyguide
Brown-backed Honeyguide
Scaly-throated Honeyguide / X
Greater Honeyguide / X
Lesser Honeyguide / X
Pallid/Eastern Least Honeyguide
Bennett's Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker / X
Green-backed/Little Spotted Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker / X
Stierling’s Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
Olive Woodpecker
African Broadbill / X
African Pitta
Rufous-naped Lark
Flappet Lark / X
Dusky Lark
Red-capped Lark / X
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark
Black Saw-wing / X
White-headed Saw-wing
Mascarene Martin
Eurasian Sand Martin
African Sand Martin / X
Banded Martin / X
Grey-rumped Swallow / X
Red-breasted Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow / X
Greater Striped Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
African Rock Martin
Blue Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow / X
Pearl-breasted Swallow
White-throated Swallow
Barn/Eurasian Swallow / X
Angola Swallow
Eurasian House Martin / X
Yellow Wagtail / X
Mountain/ Long-tailed Wagtail / X
Grey Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail / X
Golden Pipit
Richard's / Grassveld Pipit / X
Long-billed Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Buffy Pipit / X
Bush/Bushveld Pipit
Tree Pipit / X
Striped Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Rosy-throated Longclaw
Black Cuckoo-shrike / X
Grey Cuckoo-shrike
White-breasted Cuckoo-shrike / X
Shelley's Greenbul
Eastern Mountain Greenbul
Stripe(d)-cheeked Greenbul
Little Greenbul
Sombre Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Terrestrial Brownbul / X
Grey-olive Greenbul
Cabanis's Greenbul
Yellow-streaked Bulbul
Black-eyed Bulbul / X
Eastern/White-throated Nicator
Miombo Rock Thrush
Olive Thrush
Kurrichane Thrush / X
Groundscraper Thrush / X
Spotted Ground Thrush
Orange Ground Thrush
White-chested Alethe
Cholo Alethe
Starred /White-starred Robin
Sharpe's Akalat
Gunning's/East Coast Akalat
Thrush Nightingale
Olive-flanked Robin (or Robin-Chat)
Cape Robin (or Robin-Chat)
Heuglin's Robin (White-browed Robin-Chat) / X
Red-capped Robin (or Robin-Chat) / X
Boulder Chat
Collared Palm Thrush
Miombo/Central Bearded Scrub Robin
Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin
White-browed Scrub Robin / X
Stonechat
Whinchat
Northern/European Wheatear
Capped Wheatear
Familiar Chat / X
Arnot's Chat
Cliff/Mocking Chat
Broad-tailed Warbler
Little Rush Warbler
Cinnamon Bracken Warbler
Evergreen Forest Warbler
African Moustached Warbler / X
River Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Eurasian Reed Warbler
African Reed Warbler
Marsh Warbler / X
Great Reed Warbler / X
Basra Reed Warbler
Lesser Swamp Warbler / X
Olive-tree Warbler / X
Icterine Warbler
African Yellow Warbler / X
Mountain Yellow Warbler
Green-capped Eremomela / X
Burnt-necked Eremomela
Yellow-bellied Eremomela / X
Red-capped Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Long-billed Crombec / X
Willow Warbler / X
Yellow-throated (Woodland) Warbler
Yellow-bellied Hyliota
Southern Hyliota
Garden Warbler / X
Blackcap
Common Whitethroat
Brown Parisoma
Ayres’s/ Wing-snapping cisticola
Zitting/Fan-tailed Cisticola / X
Croaking Cisticola / X
Wailing Cisticola
Grey/Tinkling Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola / X
Churring Cisticola
Siffling/Short-winged Cisticola / X
Neddicky/ Piping Cisticola / X
Rock-loving Cisticola
Trilling Cisticola
Red-faced Cisticola / X
Singing Cisticola / X
Black-lored Cisticola
Winding/Greater Black-backed Cisticola
Tawny-flanked Prinia / X
Red-winged Warbler / X
Yellow-breasted Apalis / X
Rudd's Apalis
White-winged Apalis
Bar-throated Apalis
Grey Apalis
Chestnut-headed/ Chapin’s Apalis
Black-headed Apalis
Bleating Bush Warbler / Grey-backed Camaroptera / X
Miombo Barred Warbler / X
Pale/Pallid Flycatcher / X
Slaty/ White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Southern Black Flycatcher / X
Collared Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher / X
African Dusky Flycatcher / X
Ashy Flycatcher / X
Boehm's Flycatcher
Lead-coloured Flycatcher / Grey Tit-Flycatcher
Black-and-White Flycatcher
Cape Batis
Forest Batis
Woodward's Batis
Chinspot Batis / X
Mozambique/ Pale Batis
Black-throated Wattle-eye / X
Livingstone's Flycatcher
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
White-tailed Crested Flycatcher
Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher / X
Spot-throat
Mountain Illadopsis
African Hill Babbler
Arrow-marked Babbler / X
Southern Black Tit
White-winged Black Tit
Miombo Grey Tit / X
Rufous-bellied Tit
Grey Penduline Tit
Spotted Creeper
Red-and-Blue/ Anchieta's Sunbird
(Western) Violet-backed Sunbird
Collared Sunbird / X
Olive Sunbird / X
Grey Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Amethyst/ Black Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird / X
Yellow-bellied /Variable Sunbird / X
White-bellied Sunbird
Greater Double-collared Sunbird
Miombo Double-collared Sunbird
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
Shelley's Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird / X
Copper/Coppery Sunbird / X
Yellow-tufted Malachite Sunbird
Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird
Bronze/Bronzy Sunbird
Yellow White-eye / X
Eurasian Golden Oriole / X
African Golden Oriole / X
Eastern Black-headed Oriole / X
Green-headed Oriole
Sousa's Shrike
Red-backed Shrike / X
Lesser Grey Shrike
Fiscal Shrike / Common Fiscal / X
Magpie Shrike
Brubru / X
Southern /Black-backed Puffback / X
Marsh Tchagra
Brown-headed Tchagra / X
Black-crowned Tchagra / X
Tropical Boubou / X
Fulleborn's Black Boubou
Orange-breasted Bush Shrike / X
Olive Bush Shrike
Many-coloured Bush Shrike
Gorgeous Bush Shrike
Grey-headed Bush Shrike
White Helmet Shrike / X
Retz's (Red-billed) Helmet Shrike
Square-tailed Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo / X
Pied Crow / X
White-necked Raven
Waller's (Red-winged) Starling
African Red-winged Starling
Slender-billed (Chestnut-winged) Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling / X
Lesser Blue-eared Starling / X
Southern Long-tailed Starling
Amethyst/ Violet-backed Starling / X
White-winged Starling
Wattled Starling
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed Oxpecker
House Sparrow / X
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow / X
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
Yellow-throated Petronia
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Chestnut-mantled Sparrow-weaver
Baglafecht Weaver
Bertram's Weaver
Spectacled Weaver / X
Large Golden Weaver / X
Golden/ Yellow Weaver
Southern Brown-throated Weaver
Lesser Masked Weaver
Southern/African Masked Weaver / X
Spotted-backed/ Village Weaver / X
Dark-backed Weaver
Olive-headed Weaver
Red-headed Weaver
Thick-billed Weaver
Cardinal Quelea / X
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea / X
Black-winged Red Bishop / X
Southern Red Bishop / X
Yellow Bishop/ Yellow-rumped Widow / X
Red-shouldered Whydah/ Fan-tailed Widowbird
Yellow-mantled Whydah/ Widowbird
White-winged Widowbird/Whydah / X
Red-collared Widowbird/Whydah / X
Mountain Marsh Widowbird/Whydah
Green-winged Pytilia / Melba Finch / X
Orange-winged Pytilia / X
Red-faced Crimsonwing
Lesser Seed-cracker
Red-throated Twinspot / X
Green Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch / X
Blue-billed /African Firefinch / X
Jameson's Firefinch
Black-tailed Grey Waxbill
Swee Waxbill
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Common Waxbill / X
Blue Waxbill / X
Orange-breasted/Zebra Waxbill / X
Locust Finch
African Quailfinch
Bronze Mannikin / X
Red-backed Mannikin
Pied/ Magpie Mannikin
Cut-throat Finch / X
Parasitic Weaver / X
Village Indigobird / X
Dusky /Purple Indigobird
Variable Indigobird / X
Green Indigobird
Pin-tailed Whydah/Widow / X
Long-tailed Paradise Whydah/Widow / X
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah/Widow / X
Cape Canary
African Citril / X
Lemon-breasted Canary
Yellow-fronted Canary / X
Bully /Brimstone Canary / X
Black-eared Seed-eater
Stripe-breasted/Reichard's Seedeater
Streaky Seed-eater
Oriole Finch
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting / X
Cape Bunting
Golden-breasted Bunting / X
Cabanis's Bunting / X
Names are taken from the Birds of Malawi by F Dowsett-Lemaire and R J Dowsett (2006)
Vagrants and extremely rare species are not on the checklist. Please report any sightings of these species separately, for example, under Additional Comments.
Please return to or Lizanne Roxburgh, PO Box 31666, Capital City, Lilongwe 3, Malawi
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