Angola

SUB-REGION
Southern Africa

SIZE
1,246,700 km² including the exclave of Cabinda (7th largest country in Africa)

BIRDS AND BIRDING

SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 970 recorded species (5th longest bird list of any country in the ABC region)

More Zambezian endemics or near-endemics occurring in Angola, including ESS
Coppery-tailed Coucal
Pale-billed Hornbill
Racket-tailed Roller
Dickinson’s Kestrel
Souza’s Shrike
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
Miombo Tit | Miombo Grey Tit
Red-capped Crombec (ESS makayii)
Luapula Cisticola
Chirping Cisticola (ESS pipiens)
Dambo Cisticola | Cloud-scraping Cisticola
Miombo Wren-Warbler | Pale Wren-Warbler (ESS huilae)
Stierling’s Wren-Warbler
Hartlaub’s Babbler
Babbling Starling | White-winged Starling (ESS gutturalis)
Kurrichane Thrush
Miombo Scrub Robin
Böhm’s Flycatcher
Miombo Rock Thrush
Arnot’s Chat | White-headed Black Chat (ESS harterti)
Anchieta’s Sunbird | Red-and-blue Sunbird
Western Miombo Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird | White-breasted Sunbird
Red-throated Twinspot | Peters’s Twinspot
Brown Firefinch
Black-eared Seedeater

Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC
Chestnut-breasted Francolin (B2 Z)
Crawshay’s Francolin
Cunene Francolin (1/2)
Cranch’s Spurfowl
Black-shouldered Nightjar
Benguela Nightjar (E)
Fernando Po Swift | Bioko Swift
Loanda Swift (E)
Verreaux’s Turaco
Western Black-billed Turaco | Black-rumped Turaco
Barrow’s Bustard
Cape Gull
White-breasted Cormorant
Red-chested Goshawk
Bar-fronted Owlet
African Hoopoe
Eastern Piping Hornbill
Pale-throated Barbet | Angola Naked-faced Barbet (E)
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet
Streaky-throated Barbet
White-bellied Barbet | Angola White-headed Barbet (E)
Brown-faced Barbet (BT)
White-faced Barbet (B2 Z)
Thick-billed Honeyguide
Northern Olive Woodpecker | Red-bellied Woodpecker
Grey-headed Parrot
West African Pitta (B2)
Perrin’s Bushshrike (BT)
Anchieta’s Tchagra
Clancey’s Drongo
Bradfield’s Lark
Dark-capped Bulbul
Petit’s Saw-wing
Eastern Saw-wing
African Reed Warbler
Lepe Cisticola (1/2)
Angola Stout Cisticola (NE)
“Teke” Cisticola
Angola Buff-throated Apalis (E)
Salvadori’s Eremomela (BT Z)
Benguela Long-tailed Starling (E)
Cunene Long-tailed Starling (NE)
Northern Red-headed Weaver
Southern Red-headed Weaver
Red-backed Mannikin
Spectacled Quailfinch | African Quailfinch
Black-chinned Quailfinch
Landana Firefinch | Pale-billed Firefinch (NE)
Ansorge’s Firefinch (NE)
Benguela Seedeater (NE)
Three-streaked Bunting

National bird
Red-crested Turaco | Turaco de Angola

MAIN HABITATS
Escarpment forest, Afromontane forest and grassland, lowland forest, gallery forest, miombo woodland, desert

BIRD AREAS
Western Angola Endemic Bird Area
Gabon Cabinda coast Secondary Area (SA)
Namibian escarpment SA
West Zaïre and North Angola forests SA
23 Important Bird Areas

BIRDING SITES
Luanda (Barra do Cuanza, Mussulo Peninsula, Ilhéu dos Pássaros Integral Nature Reserve, Saco dos Flamingos and Panguila Saltpans) for Red-backed Mousebird, White-fronted Wattle-eye and Hartert’s Camaroptera, Red-necked Spurfowl (afer), Horus Swift (toulsoni), Angola Batis, Bubbling Cisticola (septentrionalis), Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, Golden-backed Bishop and Black-faced Canary (capistrata), Grey Go-away-bird (pallidiceps), Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (elegans), Blue-breasted Bee-eater (variegatus), Olive Bee-eater (alternans), Acacia Pied Barbet (centralis), Grey Parrot, Rosy-faced Lovebird (ESS catumbella), Swamp Boubou (guttatus), Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (neumanni), Long-billed Crombec (ESS ansorgei), Greater Swamp Warbler (ansorgei), Desert Cisticola (ESS lobito), Cape Starling, Mangrove Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver (monacha), Orange Weaver, White-winged Widowbird (asymmetrurus), Red-headed Finch (erythrocephala) and Long-legged Pipit, Cape Teal, Lesser Moorhen, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, White-fronted Plover (mechowi), Damara Tern, West African Crested Tern, Kelp Gull (vetula), Saddle-billed Stork, Cape Cormorant, Black Heron, Goliath Heron, Great White Pelican and Pink-backed Pelican among other waterbirds, as well as more widespread or common birds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Blue-billed Teal, Red-billed Teal, Helmeted Guineafowl (galeatus), Square-tailed Nightjar (welwitschii), African Palm Swift, Mottled Swift, Little Swift, White-rumped Swift, Senegal Coucal (senegalensis), White-browed Coucal (loandae), Black Coucal, Jacobin Cuckoo, Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Mourning Collared Dove (ambigua), Red-eyed Dove, Ring-necked Dove (tropica), Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Namaqua Dove, African Crake, Common Moorhen, Allen’s Gallinule, African Swamphen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, Water Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Pied Avocet, Three-banded Plover, Blacksmith Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, African Jacana, Collared Pratincole, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, African Darter, Reed Cormorant, Great Cormorant (lucidus), African Sacred Ibis, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Little Heron, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Black-headed Heron, Hamerkop, Osprey, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk, Palm-nut Vulture, Bat Hawk, African Fish Eagle, Red-necked Buzzard, Western Barn Owl, Speckled Mousebird (nigricollis), Red-faced Mousebird (lacteifrons), Common Hoopoe (africana), Green Wood Hoopoe (angolensis), Crowned Hornbill, Purple Roller (mosambicus), Lilac-breasted Roller (caudatus), Grey-headed Kingfisher (pallidiventris), Striped Kingfisher (chelicuti), Blue-breasted Kingfisher (malimbica), Woodland Kingfisher (cyanoleuca), African Pygmy Kingfisher (ferrugina), Malachite Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater (meridionalis), Golden-tailed Woodpecker (abingoni), Green-backed Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker (loandae), Rock Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Brown-crowned Tchagra (ESS ansorgei), Black-backed Puffback (hamatus), Brubru (brubru), Black-headed Oriole (angolensis), Fork-tailed Drongo (apivorus), African Paradise Flycatcher (plumbeiceps), Pied Crow, Yellow-bellied Greenbul (occidentalis), Common Bulbul (tricolor), Banded Martin (xerica), Angola Swallow, Wire-tailed Swallow (smithii), Lesser Striped Swallow (unitatis), Mosque Swallow (monteiri), Grey-backed Camaroptera (tincta), Rattling Cisticola (fortis), Zitting Cisticola (terrestris), Tawny-flanked Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis (flavida), White-browed Scrub Robin (munda), Familiar Chat (angolensis), Green-headed Sunbird (bohndorffi), Scarlet-chested Sunbird (saturatior), Marico Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird (bifasciatus), Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (ugandae), Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (diffusus), Spectacled Weaver (crocatus), Black-necked Weaver, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver (cabanisii), Village Weaver (collaris), Red-billed Quelea (lathamii), Yellow-crowned Bishop (afer), Bronze Mannikin (scutata), Common Waxbill (ESS jagoensis), Blue Waxbill (angolensis), Green-winged Pytilia (melba), Pin-tailed Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (bocagii), Plain-backed Pipit (bohndorffi) and Yellow-fronted Canary (tando)
Cuanza River for Egyptian Plover and Rock Pratincole (nuchalis)
Quiçama National Park (NP) for Grey-striped Spurfowl, Red-crested Turaco, Red-backed Mousebird, White-fronted Wattle-eye, Monteiro’s Bushshrike (ESS monteiri), Gabela Helmetshrike and Hartert’s Camaroptera, Violet Wood Hoopoe (damarensis), Black Scimitarbill (anchietae), Rüppell’s Parrot (rueppellii), Rosy-faced Lovebird, Angola Batis, Carp’s Tit, Pale-olive Greenbul, Red-faced Cisticola (lepe), Bubbling Cisticola, Forest Scrub Robin (ESS reichenowi), Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush and Golden-backed Bishop, as well as Western Crested Guineafowl (verreauxi), Mottled Spinetail (benguellensis), Böhm’s Spinetail (boehmi), Black-bellied Bustard (melanogaster), Spotted Thick-knee (capensis), Senegal Lapwing, Marabou Stork, Dwarf Bittern, Hooded Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Bateleur, Brown Snake Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Lizard Buzzard, Gabar Goshawk, Little Sparrowhawk, African Scops Owl, African Barred Owlet (ngamiense), Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Greater Honeyguide, Bearded Woodpecker (namaquus), Grey Kestrel, Red-necked Falcon, African Pitta (angolensis), Orange-breasted Bushshrike (similis), White-crested Helmetshrike (poliocephalus), Southern White-crowned Shrike (anguitimens), Wattled Starling, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver (niger) and Southern Red Bishop
Cuanza Sul wetlands for White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Yellow-billed Duck, Red-knobbed Coot, African Wattled Lapwing, Lesser Jacana and Rufous-bellied Heron among other waterbirds
Cumbira Forest for Grey-striped Spurfowl, Red-crested Turaco, Naked-faced Barbet (ESS vernayi), Monteiro’s Bushshrike (ESS monteiri), Gabela Bushshrike, Gabela Helmetshrike, Pulitzer’s Longbill, Hartert’s Camaroptera and Gabela Akalat, Gabon Coucal, Angola Batis, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (ESS ansorgei), Black-necked Wattle-eye, Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher (bannermani), Yellow-throated Nicator, Falkenstein’s Greenbul, Pale-olive Greenbul, Bubbling Cisticola (bulliens), Angola White-eye (ESS quanzae), Forest Scrub Robin (ESS reichenowi), Bannerman’s Sunbird, Dusky Twinspot (ESS cinereovinacea), African Firefinch (landanae) and Black-faced Canary, as well as Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Lemon Dove (samaliyae), Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon (calvus), African Cuckoo-Hawk, Crowned Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, African Goshawk (sparsimfasciata), African Wood Owl, Trumpeter Hornbill, Brown-hooded Kingfisher (prentissgrayi), Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (leucolaimus), Hairy-breasted Barbet (angolensis), Black-backed Barbet (minor), Brown-backed Honeybird, Pallid Honeyguide (angolensis), Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Brown-eared Woodpecker (caroli), Olive Woodpecker (ruwenzori), African Broadbill (albigularis), Chestnut Wattle-eye, Black-throated Wattle-eye (mentalis), Pink-footed Puffback (angolensis), Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Mackinnon’s Shrike, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher (nitens), African Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Tit (ESS gabela), Pale-throated Greenbul (flavigula), Yellow-whiskered Greenbul (latirostris), Black Saw-wing (reichenowi), Green Crombec (tando), Green Hylia (prasina), Lowland Masked Apalis, Black-throated Apalis (jacksoni), Buff-throated Apalis (ESS brauni), Grey Apalis, Brown Illadopsis (ESS dilutior), Southern Hyliota (inornata), Violet-backed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush (rubicunda), African Thrush (bocagei), Ashy Flycatcher (brevicauda), Red-capped Robin-Chat (larischi), Brown-chested Alethe (ESS hallae), Little Green Sunbird (minor), Collared Sunbird (somereni), Olive Sunbird (cephaelis), Carmelite Sunbird (fuliginosa), Olive-bellied Sunbird (chloropygius), Superb Sunbird (superbus), Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver (amaurocephalus), Brown-capped Weaver, Black-winged Red Bishop, Black Bishop (gierowii), Black-and-white Mannikin (poensis), Red-faced Crimsonwing (reichenovii), Grey-headed Nigrita (angolensis), Grey Waxbill, Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Red-headed Bluebill, Brown Twinspot and Dusky Indigobird (nigerrima)
Dombe-ia-Gola and Quitexe for Braun’s Bushshrike and Angola Greenbul, Gabon Coucal, Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Nicator, Black-collared Bulbul, Falkenstein’s Greenbul, Forest Swallow, Angola White-eye (ESS heinrichi) and Forest Scrub Robin, as well as Hartlaub’s Duck, Great Blue Turaco, Ross’s Turaco, Guinea Turaco (zenkeri), Blue Malkoha (aereus), Yellow-throated Cuckoo, African Emerald Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo (gabonensis), Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Congo Serpent Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk, Black Sparrowhawk, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Narina Trogon (narina), Congo Pied Hornbill, Piping Hornbill (sharpii), Black-casqued Hornbill, Broad-billed Roller (suahelicus), Blue-throated Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher (lecontei), Black Bee-eater (australis), Bristle-nosed Barbet, Naked-faced Barbet (congicus), Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Speckled Tinkerbird (flavisquamatus), Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Cassin’s Honeybird (insignis), Least Honeyguide (exilis), Lesser Honeyguide (conirostris), African Piculet, Buff-spotted Woodpecker (nivosus), Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker (elliotii), Red-fronted Parrot (gulielmi), Western Black-headed Batis (congoensis), Chestnut Wattle-eye, Bocage’s Bushshrike (bocagei), Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), Pink-footed Puffback, Tropical Boubou, African Shrike-flycatcher, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, Black Cuckooshrike, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike, Black-winged Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo (coracinus), Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Mackinnon’s Shrike, African Blue Flycatcher, Slender-billed Greenbul (gracilirostris), Pale-throated Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Simple Greenbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Little Greenbul (virens), Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Red-breasted Swallow (gordoni), Green Crombec, Yellow Longbill (flavicans), Grey Longbill, Green Hylia, Tit Hylia, Chattering Cisticola, Banded Prinia (ESS heinrichi), Black-throated Apalis, Lowland Masked Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis (ESS angolensis), Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Brown Illadopsis (ESS dilutior), Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Chestnut-winged Starling (intermedius), Narrow-tailed Starling, Splendid Starling (splendidus/bailundensis), Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush (ESS pallidigularis), African Thrush, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher (fuliginosus), Dusky-blue Flycatcher (comitatus), Ashy Flycatcher, Fraser’s Sunbird (cameroonensis), Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (octaviae), Olive Sunbird, Carmelite Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird (rubescens), Olive-bellied Sunbird, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Johanna’s Sunbird (johannae), Superb Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver (tandae), Yellow-mantled Weaver (interscapularis), Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe (ESS praedi), Crested Malimbe, Green Twinspot (schlegeli), Woodhouse’s Antpecker (ansorgei), White-breasted Nigrita (fusconotus), Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (brunnescens), Grey-headed Nigrita, Pale-fronted Nigrita, Grey Waxbill, Orange-cheeked Waxbill, White-collared Oliveback, Red-headed Bluebill, Black-bellied Seedcracker and Brown Twinspot
Dande River for Bubbling Cisticola and Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, as well as Double-toothed Barbet, White-bibbed Swallow and Cassin’s Flycatcher
Kinjila and Calandula for White-headed Robin-Chat, Red-crested Turaco and Red-backed Mousebird, Anchieta’s Barbet (ESS rex), Black-backed Barbet (macclounii), Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Falkenstein’s Greenbul, Red-throated Cliff Swallow, Red-faced Cisticola (lepe), Sharp-tailed Starling (acuticaudus), Bannerman’s Sunbird and Grey Waxbill, as well as Red-necked Spurfowl, Fiery-necked Nightjar (shelleyi), Pennant-winged Nightjar, Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal (occidentalis), Thick-billed Cuckoo (validus), Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (mechowi), Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, White-spotted Flufftail, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, African Barred Owlet (ngamiense), Marsh Owl, Pale-billed Hornbill, Shining-blue Kingfisher (guentheri), White-fronted Bee-eater, Crested Barbet (suahelicus), Black-collared Barbet (congicus), Meyer’s Parrot (ESS reichenowi), Red-headed Lovebird (pullarius), African Broadbill, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Grey-headed Bushshrike (interpositus), Many-colored Bushshrike (batesi), Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), Marsh Tchagra (anchietae), Black-crowned Tchagra (armenus), Pink-footed Puffback, Swamp Boubou, Retz’s Helmetshrike (nigricans), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, African Golden Oriole (notatus), Sharpe’s Drongo (sharpei), Square-tailed Drongo (saturnus), Northern Fiscal (capelli), Red-tailed Bristlebill, Pale-throated Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul (cabanisi), Black Saw-wing, Red-capped Crombec (ESS makayii), Little Rush Warbler (ESS benguellensis), Whistling Cisticola (modestus), Short-winged Cisticola (loanda), White-chinned Prinia (leucopogon), Brown-headed Apalis (alticola), Brown Illadopsis, Arrow-marked Babbler (hyposticta), Violet-backed Starling, Kurrichane Thrush, Southern Black Flycatcher (poliogynus), Red-capped Robin-Chat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat (polioptera), Western Violet-backed Sunbird (angolensis), Amethyst Sunbird (deminuta), Bates’s Sunbird, Copper Sunbird (chalceus), Dark-backed Weaver, Compact Weaver, Red-headed Quelea, Yellow-mantled Widowbird (macroura), Common Waxbill (ESS angolensis), Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, African Pied Wagtail (vidua), Cabanis’s Bunting (orientalis) and Golden-breasted Bunting (flaviventris)
Mount Moco area and Namba Mountains for Swierstra’s Spurfowl, Montane Nightjar (ESS koesteri), Red-backed Mousebird, Anchieta’s Barbet, Huambo Cisticola, Angola Slaty Flycatcher (ESS bailunduensis), Ludwig’s Double-collared Sunbird and Angola Waxbill, Finsch’s Francolin, African Black Swift (sladeniae), Black-backed Barbet (minor), Margaret’s Batis (ESS margaritae), Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), Angola Lark (ESS angolensis), Black-collared Bulbul, Brazza’s Martin, Black-and-rufous Swallow, Laura’s Woodland Warbler (ESS laurae), Red-faced Cisticola (lepe), Black-necked Eremomela, Sharp-tailed Starling, Bocage’s Akalat (ESS bocagei), Angola Cave Chat, Anchieta’s Sunbird, Bocage’s Sunbird, Oustalet’s Sunbird (ESS oustaleti), Black-chinned Weaver, Bocage’s Weaver, Dusky Twinspot, Fülleborn’s Longclaw and Black-faced Canary (ESS hildegardae), as well as Red-necked Spurfowl, Scarce Swift (myoptilus), Horus Swift (horus), Ross’s Turaco, Schalow’s Turaco (schalowi), White-bellied Bustard (mackenziei), Black-bellied Bustard, Coppery-tailed Coucal, African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Red-chested Flufftail, African Wattled Lapwing, Verreaux’s Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Augur Buzzard, African Grass Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Marsh Owl, Bar-tailed Trogon, Black Scimitarbill, Pale-billed Hornbill, Half-collared Kingfisher, White-fronted Bee-eater, Western Tinkerbird (ESS angolensis), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni), Black-collared Barbet, Green-backed Honeybird (ESS lathburyi), Lesser Honeyguide (teitensis), Red-throated Wryneck (ruficollis), Bennett’s Woodpecker (bennettii), Olive Woodpecker, Rock Kestrel, Lanner Falcon (biarmicus), Black-throated Wattle-eye, Marsh Tchagra, Black-crowned Tchagra, Tropical Boubou, Brubru (affinis), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Souza’s Shrike, Cape Crow (capensis), White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Rufous-bellied Tit (rufiventris), Miombo Tit, Grey Penduline Tit (ansorgei), Flappet Lark (fischeri), Red-capped Lark (spleniata), Pale-throated Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin, Large Rock Martin (anderssoni), Pearl-breasted Swallow (marwitzi), White-throated Swallow, Greater Striped Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler (mentalis), Red-capped Crombec (ruficapilla), African Yellow Warbler (major), Fan-tailed Grassbird (alexinae), Little Rush Warbler, Evergreen Forest Warbler (ESS boultoni), Wailing Cisticola (ESS namba), Chirping Cisticola (ESS pipiens), Stout Cisticola (angolensis), Croaking Cisticola (huambo), Neddicky (dispar), Wing-snapping Cisticola (ayresii), Tawny-flanked Prinia (graueri), Grey Apalis (ESS grandis), Miombo Wren-Warbler (ESS huilae), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (salvadorii), Green-capped Eremomela (pulchra), African Hill Babbler (ansorgei), Hartlaub’s Babbler, Yellow-bellied Hyliota (barbozae), African Spotted Creeper (salvadori), Orange Ground Thrush (otomitra), Miombo Scrub Robin, Pale Flycatcher (murinus), Böhm’s Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher (subadusta), White-browed Robin-Chat (subrufescens), Miombo Rock Thrush (angolensis), African Stonechat (stonei), Sooty Chat, Mountain Chat (ESS nigricauda), Capped Wheatear (neseri), Familiar Chat, Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird (ESS gadowi), Western Miombo Sunbird, Variable Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow (rufitergum), Red-headed Weaver (leuconotus), Yellow Bishop (ESS angolensis), Marsh Widowbird (hartlaubi), Red-collared Widowbird, Fawn-breasted Waxbill (benguellensis), Orange-breasted Waxbill (clarkei), Orange-winged Pytilia, Brown Firefinch, Dusky Indigobird, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Cuckoo-finch, Cape Wagtail (simplicissima), Long-billed Pipit (ESS moco), Wood Pipit (schoutedeni), Buffy Pipit (neumanni), Bushveld Pipit (mzimbaensis), Striped Pipit (stygium), Black-throated Canary (lwenarum), Yellow-fronted Canary (samaliyae), Brimstone Canary (sharpii), Thick-billed Seedeater (tanganjicae), Yellow-crowned Canary (ESS huillensis), Golden-breasted Bunting and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (tahapisi)
Tundavala Escarpment and Leba Pass for Swierstra’s Spurfowl, White-headed Barbet (ESS leucogaster), Red-backed Mousebird, Angola Slaty Flycatcher, Ludwig’s Double-collared Sunbird and Angola Waxbill, Finsch’s Francolin, Angola Batis, Rockrunner (ESS spadix), Angola White-eye, Bocage’s Akalat, Short-toed Rock Thrush (brevipes), Angola Cave Chat, Oustalet’s Sunbird, Jameson’s Firefinch (ansorgei) and Black-faced Canary, as well as African Black Duck, Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (damarensis), Fiery-necked Nightjar (fervidus), Freckled Nightjar (lentiginosus), Alpine Swift (africanus), Bradfield’s Swift (bradfieldi), Schalow’s Turaco, African Olive Pigeon, Black Stork, Booted Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle, Augur Buzzard, White-fronted Bee-eater, Western Tinkerbird, Olive Woodpecker, Rock Kestrel, Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Black-backed Puffback (okavangensis), White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Rufous-naped Lark (ESS occidentalis), African Red-eyed Bulbul, Black Saw-wing, Large Rock Martin, Long-billed Crombec (ESS ansorgei), Tinkling Cisticola (ansorgei), Wailing Cisticola, Wing-snapping Cisticola, Grey Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera (sharpei), Groundscraper Thrush (pauciguttatus), White-browed Robin-Chat, African Stonechat, Miombo Rock Thrush, Sooty Chat, Familiar Chat, Variable Sunbird, Violet-eared Waxbill, Purple Indigobird, Mountain Wagtail (torrentium), Buffy Pipit, Striped Pipit, Brimstone Canary, Yellow-crowned Canary, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (nivenorum) and Cape Bunting (ESS nebularum)
Benguela (Búfalo Partial Reserve and Chimalavera Regional Nature Park) and Namibe (Iona NP and Namibe Partial Reserve) for Meves’s Starling (ESS benguelensis) and Cinderella Waxbill, Orange River Francolin (jugularis), Hartlaub’s Spurfowl, Horus Swift (ESS fuscobrunneus), Rüppell’s Korhaan (rueppelii), Rüppell’s Parrot (mariettae), Rosy-faced Lovebird (ESS catumbella), Damara Red-billed Hornbill, Monteiro’s Hornbill, White-tailed Shrike, Carp’s Tit, Gray’s Lark (hoeschi), Benguela Long-billed Lark, Rockrunner (pycnopygius), Bare-cheeked Babbler (ESS gymnogenys) and Herero Chat, as well as Common Ostrich, Egyptian Goose, Grey Go-away-bird (pallidiceps), Kori Bustard (kori), Ludwig’s Bustard, Red-crested Korhaan, Namaqua Sandgrouse, Double-banded Sandgrouse (ESS ansorgei), Speckled Pigeon (phaeonota), Ring-necked Dove (onguati), African Green Pigeon (ESS ansorgei), Spotted Thick-knee (damarensis), Crowned Lapwing, Burchell’s Courser, Double-banded Courser (ESS bisignatus), Secretarybird, Lappet-faced Vulture, Martial Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Pale Chanting Goshawk (argentior), Shikra, Pearl-spotted Owlet (licua), Common Scimitarbill (cyanomelas), Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (elegans), Little Bee-eater (argutus), Olive Bee-eater (alternans), Acacia Pied Barbet, Golden-tailed Woodpecker (anderssoni), Pririt Batis (affinis), Bokmakierie (phanus), Brown-crowned Tchagra (damarensis), Southern Fiscal (aridicolus), Ashy Tit (benguelae), Cape Penduline Tit (damarensis), Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark (damarensis), Spike-heeled Lark (ESS obscurata), Sabota Lark (ESS ansorgei), Fawn-colored Lark (makarikari), Stark’s Lark, Long-billed Crombec, Grey-backed Cisticola (newtoni), Black-chested Prinia (ansorgei), Barred Wren-Warbler (ESS pallidior), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (ESS puellula), Chestnut-vented Warbler (ESS ansorgei), Pale-winged Starling, Kalahari Scrub Robin (ESS benguellensis), Ashy Flycatcher (impavida), Chat Flycatcher (benguellensis), Karoo Chat (benguellensis), Tractrac Chat (hoeschi), Mountain Chat (ESS albipileata), White-bellied Sunbird, Dusky Sunbird (ESS inclusus), Cape Sparrow (damarensis), Great Sparrow (benguellensis), White-browed Sparrow-Weaver (ansorgei), Scaly-feathered Weaver (squamifrons), Lesser Masked Weaver (ESS beattyi), Southern Masked Weaver (ESS finschi), Chestnut Weaver (trothae), Black-faced Waxbill (erythronotos), Red-headed Finch, Nicholson’s Pipit (palliditinctus), Black-throated Canary (deserti), Yellow Canary (damarensis), White-throated Canary (crocopygia), Lark-like Bunting, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting and Golden-breasted Bunting (princeps), with African Oystercatcher, White-fronted Plover (marginatus), Chestnut-banded Plover, Kelp Gull (vetula), Cape Gannet and Cape Cormorant along the coast and within the marine conservation area
Huíla (Bicuar NP) and Cunene (Mupa NP) for Meves’s Starling (violacior), Babbling Starling (ESS gutturalis) and Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver, Violet Wood Hoopoe (damarensis), Rosy-faced Lovebird and White-tailed Shrike, as well as Southern Pochard, Helmeted Guineafowl (marungensis), Coqui Francolin (coqui), Red-billed Spurfowl, Red-necked Spurfowl (afer), Grey Go-away-bird (bechuanae), Mourning Collared Dove, Bronze-winged Courser, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Green Wood Hoopoe, Southern Ground Hornbill, Southern Red-billed Hornbill, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (elegans), African Grey Hornbill (epirhinus), Pale-billed Hornbill, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (hirundineus), Miombo Pied Barbet, Crested Barbet (vaillantii), Lesser Honeyguide (damarensis), Greater Honeyguide, Bennett’s Woodpecker (capricorni), Brown-necked Parrot (suahelicus), Meyer’s Parrot (damarensis), Chinspot Batis (palliditergum), Grey-headed Bushshrike (citrinipectus), Crimson-breasted Shrike, Retz’s Helmetshrike (retzii), Southern White-crowned Shrike, Magpie Shrike (melanoleucus), Rufous-bellied Tit (diligens), Miombo Tit, Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark (hoeschi), Pink-billed Lark (damarensis), Rufous-naped Lark (pallida), Flappet Lark (mababiensis), Red-capped Lark (fulvida), Brown-throated Martin, Red-breasted Swallow (semirufa), Lesser Striped Swallow (ampliformis), Long-billed Crombec (flecki), Red-capped Crombec, Lesser Swamp Warbler (cunenensis), Common Reed Warbler (hallae), Neddicky (hallae), Desert Cisticola (eremicus), Tawny-flanked Prinia (bechuanae), Miombo Wren-Warbler, Burnt-necked Eremomela (usticollis), Green-capped Eremomela, Southern Pied Babbler, Black-faced Babbler (melanops), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Greater Blue-eared Starling (nordmanni), Burchell’s Starling, Sharp-tailed Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, White-browed Scrub Robin (ovamboensis), Southern Black Flycatcher (diabolicus), Marico Flycatcher (acaciae), Böhm’s Flycatcher, Miombo Rock Thrush, Arnot’s Chat, Sooty Chat, Amethyst Sunbird, Marico Sunbird, White-bellied Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Southern Masked Weaver (caurinus), Red-headed Weaver (rubriceps), Southern Red Bishop, Blue Waxbill (cyanopleurus), Cut-throat Finch (meridionalis), Orange-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch (rendalli), Village Indigobird (okavangoensis), Shaft-tailed Whydah, Wood Pipit and Cabanis’s Bunting
Menongue for Anchieta’s Barbet (anchietae), Angola Lark (ESS angolensis), Plains Lark (ESS irwini), Black-and-rufous Swallow, South African Cliff Swallow, Dambo Cisticola (dambo), Black-necked Eremomela, Sharp-tailed Starling (acuticaudus), Congo Moor Chat, Fülleborn’s Longclaw (ascensi), Grimwood’s Longclaw and Streaky-headed Seedeater (benguellensis), as well as African Black Duck, Coqui Francolin, Red-winged Francolin (momboloensis), Blue Quail, Denham’s Bustard, Coppery-tailed Coucal, African Rail, Wattled Crane, Common Buttonquail (lepurana), African Snipe (angolensis), Temminck’s Courser (ruvanensis), Rufous-bellied Heron, Black-chested Snake Eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, African Marsh Harrier, Pale-billed Hornbill, Blue-breasted Bee-eater (bangweoloensis), Greater Kestrel (rupicoloides), Dickinson’s Kestrel, Brown-crowned Tchagra (ESS bocagei), Swamp Boubou (sticturus), Cape Crow, White-winged Black Tit (insignis), Grey Penduline Tit (caroli), Fawn-colored Lark (trapnelli), Red-capped Lark (saturatior), Grey-rumped Swallow (griseopyga), Greater Swamp Warbler, Lesser Swamp Warbler (winterbottomi), Little Rush Warbler, Tinkling Cisticola (ansorgei), Levaillant’s Cisticola (perpullus), Cloud Cisticola (ESS bulubulu), Pale-crowned Cisticola (cinnamomeus), Wing-snapping Cisticola, Black-chested Prinia (bihe), Southern Yellow White-eye (anderssoni), Arrow-marked Babbler (tamalakanei), Southern Black Flycatcher (poliogynus), African Stonechat, Capped Wheatear, Fan-tailed Widowbird (bocagei), Quailfinch (muelleri), Locust Finch (locustella), Cape Wagtail, Rosy-throated Longclaw (altanus), Wood Pipit and Buffy Pipit (neumanni)
Cuando Cabango (Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga NPs and Cuatir Nature Reserve) for Helmeted Guineafowl (papillosus), Southern Crested Guineafowl (edouardi), Crested Francolin (zambesiae), Red-billed Spurfowl, Swainson’s Spurfowl, Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (rufigena), Senegal Coucal (flecki), Black Cuckoo (clamosus), Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (saturatior), Burchell’s Sandgrouse, African Green Pigeon (schalowi), Grey Crowned Crane (regulorum), Wattled Crane, Long-toed Lapwing, Three-banded Courser (seebohmi), Rock Pratincole, African Skimmer, Hadada Ibis, White-backed Night Heron, Slaty Egret, White-headed Vulture, Tawny Eagle, African Goshawk (tachiro), Southern White-faced Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Red-faced Mousebird (mossambicus), Southern Ground Hornbill, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (leucomelas), Bradfield’s Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Brown-hooded Kingfisher (orientalis), African Pygmy Kingfisher (natalensis), Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Black-collared Barbet (bocagei), Pygmy Falcon (semitorquatus), Brown-crowned Tchagra (rhodesiensis), Black-crowned Tchagra (kalahari), Southern Fiscal (subcoronatus), Southern Black Tit (xanthostomus), Terrestrial Brownbul, Little Rush Warbler (msiri), Rattling Cisticola (smithersi), Tinkling Cisticola (rufilatus), Luapula Cisticola, Chirping Cisticola (arundicola), Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (irwini), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (helenorae), Black-faced Babbler (querula), Meves’s Starling (mevesii), Sharp-tailed Starling (ecki), Red-billed Oxpecker, Bearded Scrub Robin (quadrivirgata), Collared Sunbird (zambesiana), Thick-billed Weaver (maxima), Southern Brown-throated Weaver (castaneigula), Village Weaver (nigriceps), Yellow-crowned Bishop (taha), Common Waxbill (niediecki), Jameson’s Firefinch (jamesoni), Wood Pipit (chersophilus), Buffy Pipit (chobiensis), Plain-backed Pipit (tephridorsus), Yellow-fronted Canary (vansoni) and Golden-breasted Bunting (kalaharica)
Moxico (Cameia NP) for White-throated Francolin (dewittei), Margaret’s Batis (kathleenae), Angola Lark (antonii), Plains Lark (kabalii), Black-and-rufous Swallow, Red-throated Cliff Swallow, Dambo Cisticola, Congo Moor Chat, Bar-winged Weaver and Grimwood’s Longclaw, as well as Böhm’s Spinetail, Grey Go-away-bird (molybdophanes), Wattled Crane, Forbes’s Plover, Southern Ground Hornbill, Racket-tailed Roller, Black-fronted Bushshrike (manningi), Brubru (nigritemporalis), Rufous-naped Lark (gomesi), Grey-olive Greenbul (schoutedeni), Cloud Cisticola (anselli), Desert Cisticola (traylori), Southern Hyliota (inornata), Familiar Chat (modesta), Collared Sunbird (garguensis), Purple-banded Sunbird (microrhynchus), Long-tailed Widowbird (delacouri), Black-and-white Mannikin (woltersi), African Pipit (lichenya), Black-throated Canary (semideserti) and Black-eared Seedeater
Lunda Sul (Saurimo and Muconda) for White-throated Francolin (dewittei) and Black-tailed Cisticola, Dusky Lark (occidentis), Black-and-rufous Swallow, Red-throated Cliff Swallow, Teke Cisticola (undescribed form), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (salvadorii), Sharp-tailed Starling, African Firefinch (landanae) and Fülleborn’s Longclaw, as well as Swamp Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Ross’s Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, Coppery-tailed Coucal, African Green Pigeon (calvus), Bateleur, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Marsh Harrier, Speckled Mousebird (congicus), Narina Trogon, Black Scimitarbill, Crowned Hornbill, Lilac-breasted Roller, Striped Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (furcatus), Blue-breasted Bee-eater (variegatus), Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Brown-backed Honeybird, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Golden-tailed Woodpecker (abingoni), Cardinal Woodpecker (sharpii), Meyer’s Parrot (matschiei), African Broadbill, Chinspot Batis (pintoi), Marsh Tchagra (anchietae), Brown-crowned Tchagra (souzae), White-crested Helmetshrike, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, African Golden Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo (apivorus), Souza’s Shrike (souzae), Cape Crow, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Rufous-bellied Tit (rufiventris), Miombo Tit, Pale-throated Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul, Black Saw-wing, Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin (parvula), Red-capped Crombec, Fan-tailed Grassbird, Tinkling Cisticola, Chirping Cisticola (congo), Levaillant’s Cisticola, Stout Cisticola (angolensis), Croaking Cisticola (katanga), Tawny-flanked Prinia (kasokae), Yellow-breasted Apalis (neglecta), Miombo Wren-Warbler (cinereus), Green-capped Eremomela (congensis), Southern Yellow White-eye, Kurrichane Thrush, Miombo Scrub Robin, Southern Black Flycatcher, White-browed Robin-Chat (heuglini), African Stonechat (salax), Sooty Chat, Arnot’s Chat (arnotti), Capped Wheatear, Copper Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, Dark-backed Weaver, Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Marsh Widowbird, Locust Finch and Buffy Pipit, also African Black Swift (roehli) and White-headed Saw-wing (ESS suffusa)
Lunda Norte for Anchieta’s Barbet (katangae), Miombo Pied Barbet, Black-collared Bulbul, Black-and-rufous Swallow, Red-throated Cliff Swallow, South African Cliff Swallow, Dambo Cisticola, Spotted Thrush-Babbler (upembae), Congo Moor Chat, Black-chinned Weaver, Quailfinch (fuscata), Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Fülleborn’s Longclaw, Grimwood’s Longclaw, Short-tailed Pipit (leggei) and Black-faced Canary among other taxa around Lagoa Carumbo, as well as African Finfoot (petersii), Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lynesi), Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (subquadratus), White-bellied Kingfisher (leopoldi), African Paradise Flycatcher (speciosa), Western Nicator, Little Grey Greenbul (gracilis), Leaf-love (orientalis), Green Crombec (baraka), Lemon-bellied Crombec (denti), Singing Cisticola, Buff-throated Apalis (nigrescens), Gosling’s Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera (intercalata), Brown Illadopsis (ugandae), Groundscraper Thrush (stierlingi), African Thrush (stormsi), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (niveicapilla), Red-capped Robin-Chat (intensa), Violet-tailed Sunbird, Reichenbach’s Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird (orphogaster), Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (katangae) and Red-billed Firefinch (ruberrima)
Cabinda (Maiombe NP and Chiloango River Mouth) for Black Guineafowl, Plumed Guineafowl, Latham’s Francolin (lathami), Scaly Spurfowl (squamatus), Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Sabine’s Spinetail, Cassin’s Spinetail, Yellow-billed Turaco (verreauxii), Blue-headed Wood Dove (brehmeri), Grey-throated Rail, Nkulengu Rail, White-crowned Lapwing, Spot-breasted Ibis, White-crested Tiger Heron, Long-tailed Hawk, Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk, African Goshawk (toussenelii), Red-thighed Sparrowhawk (zenkeri), Red-chested Owlet, Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl (poensis), Akun Eagle-Owl, Shelley’s Eagle-Owl, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, White-bellied Kingfisher (leucogaster), Black-headed Bee-eater, Rosy Bee-eater, Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei), Yellow-throated Tinkerbird (flavimentum), Yellow-spotted Barbet (duchaillui), Spotted Honeyguide, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Gabon Woodpecker, Brown-necked Parrot (fuscicollis), Rufous-sided Broadbill (rufolateralis), West African Batis, White-spotted Wattle-eye, Brown-throated Wattle-eye (cyanea), Fiery-breasted Bushshrike, Sabine’s Puffback (melanoleucus), Red-eyed Puffback, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (rufiventris), Blue Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole (laetior), Shining Drongo, Grey-necked Rockfowl, Golden Greenbul, Yellow-lored Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Sjöstedt’s Greenbul, Eastern Bearded Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul (emini), White-bearded Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (mccallii), Olive-green Camaroptera, Forest White-eye, Pale-breasted Illadopsis (rufipennis), Blackcap Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush (praepectoralis), Red-tailed Ant Thrush (gabunensis), Fire-crested Alethe (castanea), White-browed Forest Flycatcher (ruthae), Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher (ocreata), Little Grey Flycatcher, Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Olive-backed Forest Robin, Tiny Sunbird, Loango Weaver, Cassin’s Malimbe, Blue-billed Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe (rubricollis) and Western Bluebill (pustulata), as well as Grey Pratincole, Broad-billed Roller (afer), African Grey Woodpecker (meridionalis), Northern Puffback (congicus), Swamp Boubou (bicolor), Flappet Lark (schoutedeni), Sabota Lark (ESS plebeja), Common Bulbul (gabonensis), Square-tailed Saw-wing (nitens), Black Saw-wing (petiti), Grey-rumped Swallow (melbina), Winding Cisticola (amphilectus), Croaking Cisticola (strangei), Short-winged Cisticola (brachypterus), Yellow-breasted Apalis (caniceps), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Mangrove Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird (cyanocephala), Copper Sunbird (cupreus), Black-headed Waxbill (avakubi) and Common Waxbill (rubriventris)
Also Cangandala NP and Luando Integral Nature Reserve

TIMING (Aug–Oct)
Best at the start of the rains (Aug–Oct) when most birds breed
Some places, including Cumbira Forest, may be inaccessible during the rains (Nov–Mar)
Feb–May is good for breeding plumaged Golden-backed Bishop and various Vidua species
Jun–Jul is unproductive in the highlands

RESOURCES
Apps
Birds of Africa (iOS or Android)

Field guides
The Special Birds of Angola/As Aves Especiais de Angola by Michael Mills (2017) is the first field guide dedicated to Angolan birds, with text in both English and Portuguese
Birds of Western Africa by Ron Demey & Nik Borrow (2014) is the best available field guide for the north of the country
Sasol Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton, Niall Perrins, Dominic Rollinson & Peter Ryan (2020) is useful for the south of the country and, together with the previous field guide, covers most non-endemic birds
Birds of Africa South of the Sahara by Ian Sinclair & Peter Ryan (2010) and Birds of Southern Africa by Ber van Perlo (2009) are currently the only field guides to illustrate all bird species occurring in Angola

Sounds
Vocalisations of Angolan Birds by Michael S L Mills is the only sound guide to Angolan birds and covers 110 species, including most of the endemics
African Bird Sounds Vol 2: West and Central Africa by Claude Chappuis
Southern African Bird Sounds by Guy Gibbon

Site guides
Birds Angola: Birding Sites by Michael Mills
Southern African Birdfinder by Callan Cohen, Claire Spottiswoode & Jonathan Rossouw (2006)
Birding Western Angola by Ian Sinclair, Claire Spottiswoode, Callan Cohen, Michael Mills, Rodney Cassidy, Pedro vaz Pinto & Peter Ryan (2004)

Further reading
The Avifauna of Angola: Richness, Endemism and Rarity by Richard Dean, Martim Melo & Michael Mills in Biodiversity of Angola Science & Conservation: a Modern Synthesis edited by Brian J Huntley, Vladimir Russo, Fernanda Lages & Nuno Ferrand (2019)
As Aves Comuns de Luanda/The Common Birds of Luanda by Martim Melo & Michael Mills (2015)
The Collection and Database of Birds of Angola Hosted at IICT (Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical), Lisboa, Portugal by Miguel Monteiro, Luís Reino, Pedro Beja, Michael Stuart Lyne Mills, Cristiane Bastos-Silveira, Manuela Ramos, Diana Rodrigues, Isabel Queirós Neves, Susana Consciência & Rui Figueira (2014)
The Checklist of the Birds of Angola 2013 Edition/A Lista das Aves de Angola Edição 2013 by Michael Mills & Martim Melo (2013)
A Bibliography of Angolan Birds compiled by W R J Dean and M S L Mills (2012)
Angola by W R J Dean in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
The Birds of Angola: an Annotated Checklist by W R J Dean (2000)
Ornitolgia de Angola Vol 1: Non-passeres by António Augusto da Rosa Pinto (1983)
Articles in Bull. ABC, Malimbus, etc.

Websites
Birds Angola
Birding Angola

Blogs
Angola Field Group: Birds
Kumbira Forest Project: Saving Angola’s Endemic Birds

Facebook groups
Birding Angola is a group whose goal is to promote birdwatching in Angola
Angola Selvagem is a forum for anyone interested in the fantastic wildlife and natural environment of Angola

ORGANISATIONS

There is currently no BirdLife Partner in Angola

Bird or conservation organisations active in Angola include –
Associação Angolana para Aves e Natureza/Angolan Association for Birds and Nature
Wild Bird Trust
Fundação Kissama/Kissama Foundation
Mount Moco
EcoAngola
Bioconserv
Acção para o Desenvolvimento Rural e Ambiente (ADRA)/Action for Rural Development and Environment
Juventude Ecológica Angolana (JEA)
African Parks: Iona, Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga National Parks
Peace Parks Foundation: Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) and Liuwa Plains-Mussuma TFCA
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)