Checklists - African Bird Club

ABC Country Checklists

The African Bird Club (ABC) is developing authoritative country checklists of bird species as a resource for the use of ornithologists, birders and conservationists in the ABC region. These checklists are features of ABC’s Birds of Africa app, which can be downloaded for free from the App Store or Google Play.

The ABC country checklists complement and can be used in conjunction with the Country Accounts on this website. They are not the official country lists but all the species on them have been been recorded in the country concerned and documented in scientific and peer-reviewed publications.

Underpinning these checklists is a database containing tens of thousands of records of all bird species currently known from the ABC region and their occurrence within its constituent countries and territories. These records have been assembled from a number of referenced works and validated with country recorders.

We will continue to develop and improve these checklists and will incorporate new published records as they become available.

Open ABC Country Checklist System

iGoTerra Checklists

iGoTerra is a corporate sponsor of ABC. It provides globally unique tools and services to record, manage and share wildlife observations, lists, photos and trips, and it has made some of its country checklists available through this website. These checklists show the common and scientific names for each bird species, the species’ worldwide distribution and in-country status. They are not endorsed by ABC but we help try to keep them up to date.
There are also checklists of other species groups, including mammals, insects and plants.
All you need to access the checklists is a basic membership of iGoTerra, which is free.

Click on a country or territory below to view the iGoTerra checklists for that country or territory. If you are already a member of iGoTerra, you will be taken directly to the relevant page from which you can design the checklist you want, choosing your preferred taxonomy (IOC or Clements) and whether you want subspecies and vagrants included or not. Otherwise, you will be redirected automatically to the registration form for a free account, which takes just a few minutes to complete, and from there can go straight to the relevant page.