Cameroun | Cameroon

SUB-REGION
Central Africa

SIZE
475,440 km²

BIRDS AND BIRDING

SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 950 recorded species (6th longest bird list of any country in the ABC region)

Birds best found in Cameroon but occurring more widely (BT), including endemic subspecies (ESS)
Zenker’s Honeyguide
Brown-backed Woodpecker
Fox Kestrel
Grey-headed Broadbill
Black-necked Wattle-eye
Grey-necked Rockfowl | Red-headed Picathartes
Highland Lark (ESS stresemanni + bamendae)
Mountain Saw-wing
Forest Swallow
Spotted Thrush-Babbler | Thrush Babbler (ESS harterti)
Forest White-eye
Bronze-tailed Starling
Neumann’s Starling
White-collared Starling
Crossley’s Ground Thrush
Yellow-footed Flycatcher
Short-tailed Akalat | Alexander’s Akalat
Orange-tufted Sunbird
Grey-headed Oliveback | White-cheeked Oliveback
Yellow-winged Pytilia | Red-faced Pytilia
Dybowski’s Twinspot
Oriole Finch
Brown-rumped Bunting

Birds occurring in only two territories of the ABC region but not NE or BT (1/2)
Monteiro’s Bushshrike
Rock Firefinch
Chad Firefinch | Reichenow’s Firefinch
Jos Plateau Indigobird

Birds best found in two territories but occurring in more (B2), including ESS
Black Guineafowl
Plumed Guineafowl
White-throated Francolin
Schlegel’s Francolin
Bates’s Nightjar
Bates’s Swift
White-crested Turaco
Gabon Coucal
Black-throated Coucal (efulenensis)
White-naped Pigeon
Grey Pratincole
Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet | Sjöstedt’s Owlet
Shelley’s Eagle-Owl
Vermiculated Fishing Owl
Bare-cheeked Trogon
Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill
Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei)
Willcocks’s Honeyguide (willcocksi/hutsoni)
Gabon Woodpecker
Red-headed Lovebird
Gabon Batis | Verreaux’s Batis
White-spotted Wattle-eye
Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
Red-eyed Puffback | Black-shouldered Puffback
Eastern Wattled Cuckooshrike | Oriole Cuckooshrike
Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher
Yellow-lored Bristlebill
Sjöstedt’s Greenbul | White-tailed Greenbul
Eastern Bearded Greenbul
White-bearded Greenbul
Xavier’s Greenbul (ESS serlei)
Preuss’s Cliff Swallow | Preuss’s Swallow
Dja River Scrub Warbler | Dja River Swamp Warbler
Chattering Cisticola
Black-collared Apalis
Red-winged Grey Warbler
Gosling’s Apalis
Black-eared Ground Thrush
Gambaga Flycatcher
White-crowned Robin-Chat
Orange-breasted Forest Robin
White-crowned Cliff Chat
Violet-tailed Sunbird
Bates’s Sunbird
Yellow-capped Weaver
Cassin’s Malimbe | Black-throated Malimbe
Rachel’s Malimbe
Woodhouse’s Antpecker
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Pale-fronted Nigrita
Black-headed Waxbill
Red-winged Pytilia
Black-bellied Firefinch
Cameroon Indigobird
Long-legged Pipit

Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC
Black-shouldered Nightjar (B2)
Verreaux’s Turaco (B2)
Whistling Long-tailed Cuckoo
Barbary Falcon
Central African Hoopoe
Eastern Piping Hornbill
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet
Streaky-throated Barbet
Thick-billed Honeyguide
Johnston’s Woodpecker (NE)
West African Pitta (B2)
Glossy-backed Drongo
Singing Bush Lark
Petit’s Saw-wing (B2)
Shari Saw-wing (BT)
West African Swallow
African Reed Warbler
Cameroon Forest Warbler (BT)
Brown-backed Cisticola (NE)
Western Stout Cisticola
Western Buff-throated Apalis (B2)
Black-crowned Capuchin Babbler
African Scrub Robin
Gabon Forest Robin (B2)
Volcano Sunbird (BT)
Neumann’s Weaver (BT)
Black-faced Quailfinch
Grey Firefinch (B2)
Cameroon Pipit (E)
Bannerman’s Pipit (BT)

Other taxa of interest (see also under Birding Sites), including ESS
Hartlaub’s Duck
African Pygmy Goose
Western Crested Guineafowl (ESS sclateri)
Latham’s Francolin | Forest Francolin
Scaly Spurfowl (squamatus)
Brown Nightjar
Swamp Nightjar
Plain Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar
Long-tailed Nightjar
Standard-winged Nightjar
Pennant-winged Nightjar
Mottled Spinetail
Black Spinetail
Sabine’s Spinetail
Cassin’s Spinetail
Great Blue Turaco
Guinea Turaco | Green Turaco
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha | Chattering Yellowbill
Thick-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
Black Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Afep Pigeon
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon | Bronze-naped Pigeon
Tambourine Dove
Blue-headed Wood Dove
African Finfoot
White-spotted Flufftail (ESS batesi)
Buff-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
Chestnut-headed Flufftail
Grey-throated Rail
African Crake
Allen’s Gallinule
Nkulengu Rail
Senegal Thick-knee
White-crowned Lapwing | White-headed Lapwing
Brown-chested Lapwing
Forbes’s Plover
Rock Pratincole
African Skimmer
Olive Ibis (cupreipennis)
Spot-breasted Ibis
Hadada Ibis
White-crested Tiger Heron | White-crested Bittern
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern (payesii)
White-backed Night Heron
Hamerkop
African Cuckoo-Hawk
Hooded Vulture
Congo Serpent Eagle (batesi)
Bat Hawk
Crowned Eagle
Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle
Long-tailed Hawk
Red-chested Goshawk (macroscelides/toussenelii)
Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk
Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
Black Sparrowhawk
Red-chested Owlet (ESS pycrafti)
Sandy Scops Owl (holerythrus)
Maned Owl
Fraser’s Eagle-Owl
Akun Eagle-Owl
Pel’s Fishing Owl
African Wood Owl
Narina Trogon
White-headed Wood Hoopoe (bollei)
Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill
White-thighed Hornbill
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill | Grey-cheeked Hornbill
Black-casqued Hornbill
Western Dwarf Hornbill | Western Little Hornbill
Blue-throated Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
African Dwarf Kingfisher
White-bellied Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher (maxima/gigantea)
Pied Kingfisher
Black Bee-eater
Blue-breasted Bee-eater (variegatus)
White-throated Bee-eater
Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet
Bristle-nosed Barbet
Speckled Tinkerbird
Red-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Cassin’s Honeybird
Least Honeyguide
Spotted Honeyguide
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide
African Piculet
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Brown-eared Woodpecker
Little Green Woodpecker (permista)
Yellow-crested Woodpecker | Golden-crowned Woodpecker
Elliot’s Woodpecker (elliotii)
African Hobby
Grey Parrot
Red-fronted Parrot
Black-collared Lovebird (zenkeri)
Rufous-sided Broadbill
African Broadbill (camarunensis)
West African Batis
Chestnut Wattle-eye
Many-colored Bushshrike
Bocage’s Bushshrike | Gray-green Bushshrike
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra (armenus)
Sabine’s Puffback
Northern Puffback (gambensis/malzacii)
Lowland Sooty Boubou
Lühder’s Bushshrike
Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike
African Shrike-flycatcher
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Petit’s Cuckooshrike
Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
Blue Cuckooshrike
Western Oriole | Western Black-headed Oriole
Black-winged Oriole
Velvet-mantled Drongo
Shining Drongo
Sharpe’s Drongo
Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher | Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher (neumanni/schubotzi)
Dusky Crested Flycatcher
Dusky Tit
Forest Penduline Tit
Western Nicator
Yellow-throated Nicator
Slender-billed Greenbul
Golden Greenbul
Red-tailed Bristlebill
Falkenstein’s Greenbul | Yellow-necked Greenbul
Simple Greenbul
Honeyguide Greenbul
Red-tailed Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Plain Greenbul | Cameroon Sombre Greenbul
Little Grey Greenbul | Gray Greenbul
Ansorge’s Greenbul
White-throated Greenbul
Icterine Greenbul
Leaf-love
Square-tailed Saw-wing
Ethiopian Swallow
White-bibbed Swallow | White-throated Blue Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Red-breasted Swallow | Rufous-chested Swallow
Moustached Grass Warbler
Yellow Longbill
Grey Longbill
Lemon-bellied Crombec
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher
Green Hylia
Tit Hylia
Uganda Woodland Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler
Winding Cisticola (amphilectus)
Croaking Cisticola
Short-winged Cisticola | Siffling Cisticola
Banded Prinia
Lowland Masked Apalis | Masked Apalis
Black-throated Apalis (minor)
Black-capped Apalis
Yellow-browed Camaroptera
Olive-green Camaroptera
Black-faced Rufous Warbler
Green-backed Eremomela
Rufous-crowned Eremomela
Brown Illadopsis
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Blackcap Illadopsis
Puvel’s Illadopsis
Violet-backed Hyliota
Purple-headed Starling
Violet-backed Starling
Chestnut-winged Starling
Narrow-tailed Starling
Fraser’s Rufous Thrush | Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (rubicunda)
White-tailed Ant Thrush
Red-tailed Ant Thrush
Grey Ground Thrush
African Thrush (pelios)
Fire-crested Alethe
Brown-backed Scrub Robin
Pale Flycatcher
White-browed Forest Flycatcher (ruthae)
Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher | African Forest Flycatcher
Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher
Grey Tit-Flycatcher | Lead-coloured Flycatcher
Olivaceous Flycatcher
Ashy Flycatcher
Dusky-blue Flycatcher (comitatus)
Sooty Flycatcher
Little Grey Flycatcher | Little Flycatcher
Cassin’s Flycatcher
Yellow-breasted Forest Robin
Brown-chested Alethe
Red-capped Robin-Chat
Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
Lowland Akalat
Fraser’s Sunbird
Little Green Sunbird
Grey-chinned Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Reichenbach’s Sunbird
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
Green-throated Sunbird
Tiny Sunbird
Johanna’s Sunbird
Thick-billed Weaver | Grosbeak Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
Olive-naped Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Orange Weaver
Yellow-mantled Weaver
Maxwell’s Black Weaver
Compact Weaver
Dark-backed Weaver | Forest Weaver
Preuss’s Weaver
Blue-billed Malimbe
Red-headed Malimbe
Red-bellied Malimbe
Crested Malimbe
Red-headed Quelea
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Black-winged Red Bishop
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Magpie Mannikin
Green Twinspot | Green-backed Twinspot
White-breasted Nigrita
Orange-breasted Waxbill | Zebra Waxbill
Western Bluebill
Black-bellied Seedcracker
African Firefinch | Blue-billed Firefinch
Jambandu Indigobird
Cuckoo-finch | Parasitic Weaver
Plain-backed Pipit
Cabanis’s Bunting

MAIN HABITATS
Afromontane forest, lowland forest, Guinea woodlands, arid savanna

BIRD AREAS
Cameroon mountains Endemic Bird Area (EBA)
Cameroon and Gabon lowlands EBA
33 Important Bird Areas

BIRDING SITES
Mount Cameroon National Park (NP), Rumpi Hills Wildlife Sanctuary (WS), Bakossi Mountains (Bakossi NP and Mount Kupe Strict Nature Reserve), Mount Nlonako, Mount Muanenguba Strict Nature Reserve, Mount Bana, Lebialem Highlands (Tofala Hill WS and proposed Mak-Betchou WS), Mount Bamboutos, Mbulu Hills, Takamanda NP, Bamenda Highlands (Kimbi-Fungom NP, Njinsing Forest, Mount Oku/Kilum-Ijim Forest, Lake Awing, Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, Mount Mbam, Mbi Crater Faunal Reserve (FR) and Lake Petpenoun) and Adamawa Plateau (Tchabal Mbabo, Tchabal Ngandaba and Ngaoundaba Ranch) for all the Afromontane endemics and near-endemics, Monteiro’s Bushshrike and other highland BT and B2 taxa listed above, as well as African Black Duck, Yellow-billed Duck, Ring-necked Francolin, Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Scarce Swift, Mottled Swift (ESS bamendae), African Black Swift (ESS serlei), Fernando Po Swift, Horus Swift, White-rumped Swift, Ross’s Turaco, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Lemon Dove, African Rail, Lesser Moorhen, African Swamphen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, African Wattled Lapwing, Lesser Jacana, Temminck’s Courser, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Grass Owl (ESS cameroonensis), Northern White-faced Owl, Marsh Owl, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Bar-tailed Trogon (camerunensis), White-headed Wood Hoopoe (ESS okuensis), Blue-breasted Bee-eater (loringi), Western Tinkerbird (coryphaea), Yellow-footed Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide (riggenbachi), Greater Honeyguide, Red-throated Wryneck, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker (johnstoni), Lanner Falcon, Peregrine Falcon (minor), Western Black-headed Batis, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (graueri), Pink-footed Puffback (boydi), Marsh Tchagra, Tropical Boubou, Brubru (camerunensis), White-crested Helmetshrike (concinnatus), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, Yellow-billed Shrike, Northern Fiscal, Mackinnon’s Shrike, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher (albiventris), White-shouldered Black Tit, White-bellied Tit, Flappet Lark (serlei), Sun Lark (ESS struempelli), Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul, Dark-capped Bulbul, Black Saw-wing (chalybea), Banded Martin, Brown-throated Martin (newtoni), African Red-rumped Swallow (kumboensis), Northern Crombec (carnapi), African Yellow Warbler, Fan-tailed Grassbird, Evergreen Forest Warbler (ESS manengubae + camerunensis), Highland Rush Warbler, Singing Cisticola (adamauae), Whistling Cisticola, Chubb’s Cisticola (adametzi/ESS discolor), Stout Cisticola (santae), Pectoral-patch Cisticola (ESS lynesi + mbangensis), Yellow-breasted Apalis, Black-throated Apalis (bambuluensis), Grey Apalis (sclateri), African Hill Babbler (ESS monachus), Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Northern Yellow White-eye, Grey-chested Babbler, Southern Hyliota (slatini), Wattled Starling, Waller’s Starling (preussi), Yellow-billed Oxpecker, African Thrush (ESS nigrilorum), Northern Black Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher (ESS camerunensis), African Dusky Flycatcher (poensis/pumila), White-bellied Robin-Chat (roberti), Grey-winged Robin-Chat (nigriceps/ESS tessmanni), African Stonechat (salax), Sooty Chat, White-fronted Black Chat (limbata), Familiar Chat (falkensteini), Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Northern Double-collared Sunbird (preussi), Palestine Sunbird, Variable Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver (neumanni), Black-billed Weaver (melanogaster), Brown-capped Weaver, Black Bishop, Yellow Bishop (phoenicomerus), Fan-tailed Widowbird, Marsh Widowbird, Red-collared Widowbird, Red-faced Crimsonwing (reichenovii), Black-crowned Waxbill (ESS eisentrauti), Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Bar-breasted Firefinch, Wilson’s Indigobird, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah, Mountain Wagtail, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (lynesi/ESS camaroonensis), Long-billed Pipit (bannermani), West African Seedeater (canicapilla/montanorum), Thick-billed Seedeater (burtoni) and Gosling’s Bunting
Lobéké NP, Boumba Bek NP, Nki NP, Ngoyla FR, Dja FR, proposed Kom NP and Mengame WS for Bates’s Weaver and lowland (Congolian) forest species including Dja River Scrub Warbler and many other taxa of interest listed above, as well as African Barred Owlet, Forest Wood Hoopoe, Black-headed Bee-eater, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Green-breasted Pitta, Tessmann’s Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Red-crowned Malimbe, Bob-tailed Weaver, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Locust Finch and Grant’s Bluebill
Campo Ma’an NP, Douala-Edéa NP, Lake Ossa FR, proposed Ebo NP, Korup NP and Bayang-Mbo WS for lowland (Atlantic and West African) forest species including Rachel’s Malimbe and many other taxa of interest listed above, as well as Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Blue-moustached Bee-eater, Naked-faced Barbet, Fire-bellied Woodpecker, African Pitta (pulih/angolensis), Red-cheeked Wattle-eye, Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Grey-headed Bristlebill, Baumann’s Olive Greenbul, Fanti Saw-wing, Kemp’s Longbill, Slender-billed Weaver and Red-vented Malimbe
Coast (proposed Ndongere Marine NP, Rio del Rey Estuary, Limbe Botanical Garden, Wouri Estuary, Sanaga River Mouth and proposed Manyange na Elombo-Campo Marine NP) for waterbirds including Lesser Flamingo, White-fronted Plover, Brown Noddy, Little Tern (guineae), Damara Tern, West African Crested Tern, Wilson’s Storm Petrel, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Cape Gannet, Brown Booby, African Darter, African Sacred Ibis, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Western Reef Heron, Striated Heron, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Grey Heron, Goliath Heron and Pink-backed Pelican, as well as Square-tailed Nightjar, African Fish Eagle, Swamp Boubou, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, Mangrove Sunbird and Carmelite Sunbird
Mbam et Djerem NP for both lowland and gallery forest taxa as well as wooded savanna species
Yaoundé for Grey-throated Barbet and Red-eyed Puffback as well as more widespread and common birds including Double-spurred Spurfowl, African Palm Swift, Little Swift, Senegal Coucal, Blue-headed Coucal, Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-eyed Dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, African Green Pigeon, Common Moorhen, African Jacana, Reed Cormorant, Western Cattle Egret, Purple Heron, African Harrier-Hawk (pectoralis), Palm-nut Vulture, Long-crested Eagle, Lizard Buzzard, Yellow-billed Kite, Red-necked Buzzard, Western Barn Owl, Speckled Mousebird, Congo Pied Hornbill, Woodland Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher (ferrugina), Little Bee-eater, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Vieillot’s Barbet (rubescens), Double-toothed Barbet, Cardinal Woodpecker, African Grey Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Orange-breasted Bushshrike, African Paradise Flycatcher (speciosa), Pied Crow, African Blue Flycatcher, Pale-throated Greenbul, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Little Greenbul, Common Bulbul (gabonensis), Black Saw-wing (petiti), Red-throated Rock Martin (bansoensis), Lesser Striped Swallow (maxima), Mosque Swallow (saturatior), Green Crombec, Red-faced Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia (melanorhyncha), White-chinned Prinia, Oriole Warbler, Grey-backed Camaroptera (tincta), Splendid Starling, African Thrush (saturatus), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Green-headed Sunbird, Olive Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird, Splendid Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, Village Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Bronze Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin, Grey-headed Nigrita, Black-crowned Waxbill (nonnula), Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Common Waxbill, Brown Twinspot, Pin-tailed Whydah, African Pied Wagtail and Yellow-fronted Canary (ESS punctigula)
Faro NP, Bénoué NP, Bouba Ndjidah NP and Poli area (Hoséré Vokré) for Chad Firefinch, wooded savanna BT and B2 species listed above, as well as Egyptian Goose, Helmeted Guineafowl, Stone Partridge, Western Plantain-eater, Violet Turaco, Denham’s Bustard, Black-bellied Bustard, African Cuckoo, Four-banded Sandgrouse, Speckled Pigeon, Adamawa Turtle Dove, Mourning Collared Dove, Vinaceous Dove, Laughing Dove, Black-billed Wood Dove, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Three-banded Plover, Spur-winged Lapwing, Egyptian Plover, Bronze-winged Courser, Abdim’s Stork, Black-headed Heron, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk (typus), White-backed Vulture, Rüppell’s Vulture, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, Tawny Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Shikra, Grasshopper Buzzard, Pearl-spotted Owlet, African Scops Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Green Wood Hoopoe, Black Scimitarbill, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Purple Roller, Abyssinian Roller, Blue-bellied Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher (chelicuti), African Pygmy Kingfisher (picta), Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Red-throated Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Vieillot’s Barbet (buchanani), Bearded Barbet, Brown-backed Honeybird, Lesser Honeyguide (senegalensis), Fine-spotted Woodpecker, Golden-tailed Woodpecker, Grey Kestrel, Senegal Parrot, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Senegal Batis, Grey-headed Bushshrike, Black-headed Gonolek, Brubru (afer), White-crested Helmetshrike (plumatus), African Golden Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo (divaricatus), African Paradise Flycatcher (ferreti), Emin’s Shrike, Piapiac, Yellow Penduline Tit, Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark, Rufous-rumped Lark, Flappet Lark (buckleyi), Sun Lark (modesta), Common Bulbul (inornatus), Grey-rumped Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow (domicella), Northern Crombec (brachyura), Singing Cisticola (concolor), Dorst’s Cisticola, Rufous Cisticola, Black-backed Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia (pallescens), Red-winged Prinia, Grey-backed Camaroptera (brevicaudata), Senegal Eremomela, Brown Babbler, Blackcap Babbler, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, African Spotted Creeper, Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Purple Starling, Long-tailed Glossy Starling, Swamp Flycatcher, White-fronted Black Chat (frontalis), Pygmy Sunbird, Beautiful Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Sahel Bush Sparrow, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Little Weaver, Heuglin’s Masked Weaver, Black-headed Weaver (capitalis), Red-headed Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Quailfinch (atricollis), Black-faced Firefinch (nigricollis), Barka Indigobird, Quailfinch Indigobird and Yellow-fronted Canary (caniceps)
Kalamaloué NP, Waza NP, proposed Ma Mbed Mbed NP and Mora area for Rock Firefinch and Jos Plateau Indigobird as well as Common Ostrich, Harlequin Quail, Clapperton’s Spurfowl, Golden Nightjar, Arabian Bustard, White-bellied Bustard, Savile’s Bustard, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, African Collared Dove, Namaqua Dove, Black Crowned Crane, Common Buttonquail, Spotted Thick-knee, Quail-plover, Black-headed Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, Marabou Stork, Secretarybird, Scissor-tailed Kite, Egyptian Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, Gabar Goshawk, Blue-naped Mousebird, Striped Kingfisher (eremogiton), African Green Bee-eater, White-headed Barbet (adamauae), Little Grey Woodpecker, Red-necked Falcon, Peregrine Falcon (pelegrinoides), Grey-headed Batis (chadensis), Black-crowned Tchagra (nothus), Yellow-crowned Gonolek, Great Grey Shrike (leucopygos), Grey-backed Fiscal, Sennar Penduline Tit, Singing Bush Lark (chadensis), Crested Lark (alexanderi), Lesser Striped Swallow (puella), Mosque Swallow (senegalensis), Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Rock-loving Cisticola (petrophilus), Red-pate Cisticola, Zitting Cisticola, Desert Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia (subflava), Cricket Warbler, Buff-bellied Warbler, Yellow-bellied Eremomela, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Chestnut-bellied Starling, Black Scrub Robin, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (minor), White-browed Robin-Chat, Anteater Chat, Heuglin’s Wheatear, Sudan Golden Sparrow, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, Speckle-fronted Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, African Silverbill, Lavender Waxbill, Black-rumped Waxbill, Cut-throat Finch, Green-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch (rhodopsis), Village Indigobird, Sahel Paradise Whydah, White-rumped Seedeater and Golden-breasted Bunting
Lake Tchad WS, Logone Floodplain and Lake Maga for waterbirds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White-backed Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Black-winged Stilt, Long-toed Lapwing, Greater Painted-snipe, Collared Pratincole, Grey-headed Gull, Saddle-billed Stork, White-breasted Cormorant, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Black Heron and Great White Pelican, as well as Brown-throated Martin (minor), Winding Cisticola (zalingei), River Prinia, Northern Red Bishop and Fan-tailed Widowbird
Also Mozogo Gokoro NP, Vallée du Mbéré NP, Deng Deng NP, Mpem et Djim NP, Santchou FR, Wall-Mbargué FR and proposed Mefou NP

TIMING (Nov, Mar–Apr)
Best when it is dry and easy to get around, which is when most forest birds breed (Dec–Apr)
Grey-necked Rockfowl breeds May–Oct
Immediately after the rains (Oct–Dec) many whydahs and indigobirds are in breeding plumage
Avoid the main rainy season (May–Sep) due to access problems

RESOURCES
Apps
Birds of Africa (iOS or Android)

Field guides
Birds of Western Africa by Nik Borrow & Ron Demey (2014)

Sounds
African Bird Sounds Vol 2: West and Central Africa by Claude Chappuis

Site guides
Birding Cameroon, Part 1 – Northern Cameroon: Guinea Woodlands to Sahel by Michael Mills & Callan Cohen (2003)
Birding Cameroon, Part 2 – Southern Cameroon: Forests, Low to Lofty by Michael Mills & Callan Cohen (2004)
Birding Dja Biosphere Reserve, Southern Cameroon by Eddie Williams (2007)
Mount Kupe and its Birds by Christopher G R Bowden & S Mark Andrews (1994)

Further reading
The Birds of Cameroon: Their Status and Distribution by Marc Languy (2019)
Waterbird Census of Coastal Cameroon and Sanaga River, January-March 2007 edited by Jaap J van der Waarde (2007)
Waders and Waterbirds in the Floodplains of the Logone, Cameroon and Chad, February 2000 edited by Wim Ganzevies & Jeroen Bredenbeek (2005)
La Réserve de Faune du Dja: à la Découverte de la Forêt Tropicale by Lucienne Wilmé (2002)
Cameroon by Roger Fotso, Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire, Robert J Dowsett, Cameroon Ornithological Club, Paul Scholte, Marc Languy & Chris Bowden in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
Birds and Mammals of Mt Cameroon: an Update of the State of Knowledge and Further Fieldwork around Mann’s Spring by F Dowsett-Lemaire & R J Dowsett with an Annotated List of the Birds of Mt Cameroon and Appendices (2001)
Further Biological Surveys of Manenguba and Central Bakossi in March 2000, and an Evaluation of the Conservation Importance of Manenguba, Bakossi, Kupe and Nlonako Mts, with Special Reference to Birds Part 1 and Part 2 with an Updated List of the Avifauna of Manenguba Mt and an Updated List of the Avifauna of the Bakossi Mts by F Dowsett-Lemaire & R J Dowsett (2000)
Les Oiseaux d’Afrique Centrale: Liste Faunistique by Patrice Christy & Jean Pierre Vande weghe (1999)
The Birds of Cameroon: an Annotated Checklist by Michel Louette (1981)
Articles in Malimbus, Bull. ABC, Cameroon Birdline (CBCS), etc.

Websites
Picatharte
UNESCO World Heritage List: Dja Faunal Reserve and Sangha Trinational

Blogs
Parc National de la Bénoué
Voice of Nature (VoN) News is a Cameroon-based environment and conservation non-profit news platform dedicated to speaking for nature & the voiceless

Facebook groups
Les Oiseaux du Cameroun/The Birds of Cameroon

ORGANISATIONS

There is currently no BirdLife Partner in Cameroon

Bird or conservation organisations active in Cameroon include –
Cameroon Wildlife Conservation Society (CWCS)
Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF)
Cameroon Biodiversity Conservation Society (CBCS), formerly the Cameroon Ornithological Club
African Nature and Conservation (ANC)
Voice of Nature (VoNat)
Sekakoh
Korup Rainforest Conservation Society (KRCS)
Tropical Forest and Rural Development (TFRD)
Action pour le Respect et la Protection de l’Environnement (ARPE)
Groupement d’Appui pour le Développement Durable (GADD)
Action Concertée pour le Développement Durable (ACODED)
Community Association for Sustainable Development (CASUDEV)
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)
Cameroon Environmental Watch (CEW)
Green Cameroon
Congo Basin Institute
WCS Cameroon
WWF Cameroon

Ecole de Faune de Garoua (EFG) in Cameroon is the only school in West and Central Africa designed to train professionals from French-speaking nations of sub-Saharan Africa in wildlife conservation and protected area management