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The following largely unconfirmed records have been published in recent Bulletins of the African Bird Club for information only.

On 18 October 2009, at least 245 African Openbills Anastomus lamelligerus flew south-west in small groups along the Zio River north of Lomé. The same day, a mixed flock of >800 terns was observed at the beach near Lomé harbour. The flock consisted of c.500 Common Terns Sterna hirundo, c.200 Royal Terns S. maxima and c.100 Sandwich Terns S. sandvicensis, with a few Black Terns Chlidonias niger.

Records from January - February 2007 include the following. Several single African Openbill Storks Anastomus lamelligerus were in the Haho River floodplain, south of Hahatoe, with a group of eight near a pond on 4 February, of which two were still present on 11th. Also there were a group of seven and another of four Lesser Black-winged Lapwings Vanellus lugubris. An adult Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti was observed in gallery forest near Dzogbégan, on 2 February. In the north, two groups of about six Chestnut-bellied Starlings Lamprotornis pulcher were found along the road east of Gando, near the border with Benin, on 9 January.

White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens, observed in Fazao-Malfakassa National Park on 11 November 2005, constitutes an addition to the Togo list.

Another species (Little Rush-Warbler Bradypterus baboecala) additional to those listed by Cheke & Walsh (1996) has been reported for Togo (Bulletin of the African Bird Club Volume 10 Number 1 March 2003). A second record of Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata, the first for the wet season, was reported from the Kéran National Park (Malimbus Volume 20 Number 2 October 1998). Records of unusual species such as Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus, Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus and Ashy Flycatcher Muscicapa caerulescens have been reported (Bulletin of the African Bird Club Volume 9 Number 1 March 2002) and an immature Kurrichane Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus lepuranus was killed at Atakpamé in December 2003, the first record for the south of Togo.

Last page update 22nd January 2011