SUB-REGION
Central Africa
SIZE
622,984 km²
BIRDS AND BIRDING
SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 750 recorded species
Near-endemics (NE)
Niam-niam Parrot
Birds best found in two territories but occurring in more (B2)
Schlegel’s Francolin
Proposed splits not yet accepted by IOC
Black-shouldered Nightjar
Western Black-billed Turaco
Neumann’s Coucal
Red-chested Goshawk
Chestnut Owlet
Central African Hoopoe
Eastern Piping Hornbill
Grey-headed Barbet
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet
Streaky-throated Barbet
Thick-billed Honeyguide
Little Green Woodpecker
East African Pitta
Glossy-backed Drongo
Dark-capped Bulbul
Shari Saw-wing
West African Swallow
African Reed Warbler
Western Buff-throated Apalis
Tawny-breasted Camaroptera
Grey-caped Capuchin Babbler
African Scrub Robin
Sangha Forest Robin (would-be endemic)
White-crowned Cliff Chat
Neumann’s Weaver
Northern Red-headed Weaver
Black-faced Quailfinch
Grey Firefinch
Other taxa of interest (see also under Birding Sites)
Heuglin’s Spurfowl
Gabon Coucal
White-naped Pigeon
Eastern Dwarf Hornbill
Sladen’s Barbet
Black-breasted Barbet
Speckle-breasted Woodpecker
Green-breasted Pitta
Gabon Batis | Verreaux’s Batis
Black-necked Wattle-eye
Jameson’s Wattle-eye
Eastern Wattled Cuckooshrike | Oriole Cuckooshrike
Grey-necked Rockfowl | Red-headed Picathartes
Yellow-eyed Bristlebill
Red-chested Swallow (subalaris)
Dja River Scrub Warbler | Dja River Swamp Warbler
Foxy Cisticola
Red-winged Grey Warbler
Forest White-eye
Spotted Thrush-Babbler
Dusky Babbler
White-collared Starling
Grey Ground Thrush (batesi)
Forest Scrub Robin (collsi)
Yellow-footed Flycatcher
Palestine Sunbird
Yellow-capped Weaver
Grant’s Bluebill
Dybowski’s Twinspot
Vagrants
Chestnut-headed Flufftail
African River Martin
Congo Martin
Bob-tailed Weaver
MAIN HABITATS
Lowland forest, moist savanna
BIRD AREAS
8 Important Bird Areas
BIRDING SITES
Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park (NP), Mbaéré Bodingué NP and Ngotto Classified Forest for Yellow-breasted Forest Robin (sanghensis), Gabon Coucal, Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Sladen’s Barbet, Green-breasted Pitta, Gabon Batis, Black-necked Wattle-eye, Eastern Wattled Cuckooshrike, Grey-necked Rockfowl, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Red-chested Swallow (subalaris), Dja River Scrub Warbler, Forest White-eye, Grey Ground Thrush (batesi), Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Yellow-capped Weaver and Grant’s Bluebill, Black Guineafowl, Plumed Guineafowl, Bates’s Nightjar, Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk, Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Bare-cheeked Trogon, White-thighed Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Zenker’s Honeyguide, African Piculet, Gabon Woodpecker, Elliot’s Woodpecker, Grey-headed Broadbill, White-spotted Wattle-eye, Bocage’s Bushshrike, Red-eyed Puffback, Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike, Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Nicator, Yellow-lored Bristlebill, Falkenstein’s Greenbul, Sjöstedt’s Greenbul, Eastern Bearded Greenbul, White-bearded Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Yellow Longbill (flavicans), Chattering Cisticola, Banded Prinia (bairdii), Gosling’s Apalis, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Purple-headed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush (gabunensis), Fire-crested Alethe (castanea), Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Sooty Flycatcher, Violet-tailed Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Red-crowned Malimbe, Cassin’s Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-bellied Malimbe, Woodhouse’s Antpecker and Black-headed Waxbill, as well as African Pygmy Goose, Hartlaub’s Duck, Latham’s Francolin, Scaly Spurfowl, Brown Nightjar, Mottled Spinetail, Black Spinetail, Sabine’s Spinetail, Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Guinea Turaco, Blue-headed Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Levaillant’s 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, Tambourine Dove, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Green Pigeon, African Finfoot, White-spotted Flufftail, Buff-spotted Flufftail, African Crake, Nkulengu Rail, Forbes’s Plover, White-crowned Lapwing, White-fronted Plover, Egyptian Plover, African Jacana, Rock Pratincole, Grey Pratincole, African Skimmer, African Woolly-necked Stork, Spot-breasted Ibis, White-crested Tiger Heron, Goliath Heron, African Harrier-Hawk, Palm-nut Vulture, African Cuckoo-Hawk (batesi), Congo Serpent Eagle, Crowned Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, African Goshawk (toussenelii), Black Sparrowhawk, African Fish Eagle, Red-chested Owlet, African Barred Owlet (castaneum), Sandy Scops Owl, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl, Akun Eagle-Owl, Shelley’s Eagle-Owl, African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon, Forest Wood Hoopoe, White-headed Wood Hoopoe, Congo Pied Hornbill, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Piping Hornbill (duboisi), Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Black-casqued Hornbill, Western Dwarf Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, White-bellied Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (purpuratus), Grey-throated Barbet (cinereiceps), Bristle-nosed Barbet, Speckled Tinkerbird, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet (duchaillui), Hairy-breasted Barbet (ansorgii), Cassin’s Honeybird, Least Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide (conirostris), Spotted Honeyguide, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Green-backed Woodpecker (permista), Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Red-fronted Parrot, Black-collared Lovebird, Rufous-sided Broadbill, West African Batis, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Many-colored Bushshrike, Sabine’s Puffback, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike, Blue Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Black-winged Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Shining Drongo, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (schubotzi), African Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Forest Penduline Tit, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Golden Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Little Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Leaf-love, Square-tailed Saw-wing, Red-breasted Swallow, Grey Longbill, Green Crombec, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Green Hylia, Tit Hylia, Black-throated Apalis, Black-capped Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis (rufogularis), Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Olive-green Camaroptera (chloronota), Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Brown Illadopsis, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Blackcap Illadopsis, Violet-backed Hyliota, Chestnut-winged Starling, Narrow-tailed Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, White-tailed Ant Thrush, White-browed Forest Flycatcher, Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Olivaceous Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher, Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Little Grey Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe (compsonota), Lowland Akalat, Fraser’s Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Collared Sunbird, Reichenbach’s Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Olive Sunbird (cephaelis), Olive-bellied Sunbird (chloropygius), Tiny Sunbird, Splendid Sunbird, Johanna’s Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Bates’s Sunbird, Orange Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Maxwell’s Black Weaver, Preuss’s Weaver, Blue-billed Malimbe, Crested Malimbe, Magpie Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin, Green Twinspot, White-breasted Nigrita, Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Nigrita, Pale-fronted Nigrita, Western Bluebill and Black-bellied Seedcracker
Bangui area for Preuss’s Cliff Swallow and Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, as well as more widespread and common birds including African Palm Swift, Little Swift, Western Plantain-eater, Senegal Coucal, Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-eyed Dove, Laughing Dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Common Moorhen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, African Darter, Reed Cormorant, Little Egret, Little Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Hamerkop, Osprey, Black-winged Kite, Lizard Buzzard, Shikra, Yellow-billed Kite, Red-necked Buzzard, Western Barn Owl, Speckled Mousebird, Broad-billed Roller, Woodland Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, Common Kestrel, Western Black-headed Batis, Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Brown-crowned Tchagra, African Paradise Flycatcher, Pied Crow, Pale-throated Greenbul, Simple Greenbul, Common Bulbul (tricolor), Brown-throated Martin, White-bibbed Swallow, Lesser Striped Swallow, Red-faced Cisticola, Winding Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Grey-backed Camaroptera, Splendid Starling, Violet-backed Starling, African Thrush, Copper Sunbird, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, Thick-billed Weaver, Black-necked Weaver, Village Weaver, Black Bishop, Bronze Mannikin, Black-crowned Waxbill, Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Common Waxbill, Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, African Pied Wagtail, Plain-backed Pipit and Yellow-fronted Canary
Chinko Conservation Area for Schlegel’s Francolin, Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Black-throated Coucal (neumanni), White-naped Pigeon, Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Foxy Cisticola, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Spotted Thrush-Babbler (turdina), Capuchin Babbler (bohndorffi), Dusky Babbler, White-collared Starling, Grey Ground Thrush (batesi), Forest Scrub Robin (collsi), Palestine Sunbird and Dybowski’s Twinspot, as well as a mix of lowland forest and moist savanna species including Hartlaub’s Duck, Helmeted Guineafowl (meleagris), Western Crested Guineafowl, Stone Partridge, Latham’s Francolin, Scaly Spurfowl, Harlequin Quail, Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Plain Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar, Long-tailed Nightjar, Standard-winged Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Great Blue Turaco, Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, White-crested Turaco, Black-billed Turaco (schuetti), Denham’s Bustard, Black-bellied Bustard, Black Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Thick-billed Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Vinaceous Dove, Tambourine Dove, Blue-headed Wood Dove, Black-billed Wood Dove, African Green Pigeon, African Finfoot, White-spotted Flufftail, Red-chested Flufftail, Grey-throated Rail, Nkulengu Rail, Black-rumped Buttonquail, Spotted Thick-knee, Senegal Thick-knee, Forbes’s Plover, White-crowned Lapwing, African Wattled Lapwing, Brown-chested Lapwing, Egyptian Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Bronze-winged Courser, Rock Pratincole, Marabou Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, Abdim’s Stork, African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, Dwarf Bittern, White-backed Night Heron, Squacco Heron, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Black-headed Heron, Secretarybird, African Harrier-Hawk, Hooded Vulture, Bateleur, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Bat Hawk, Martial Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Tawny Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Grasshopper Buzzard, African Scops Owl, Northern White-faced Owl, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl, African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon, Common Hoopoe (waibeli), Black Scimitarbill, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Congo Pied Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Piping Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Black-casqued Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Abyssinian Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, White-bellied Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Black-headed Bee-eater, Black Bee-eater, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Little Bee-eater, Red-throated Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Double-toothed Barbet, Spotted Honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Red-throated Wryneck, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Green-backed Woodpecker (permista), Golden-tailed Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker, African Grey Woodpecker, Brown-backed Woodpecker, Fox Kestrel, Grey Kestrel, African Hobby, Meyer’s Parrot, Red-headed Lovebird, African Broadbill, African Pitta (longipennis), Grey-headed Batis, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Fiery-breasted Bushshrike, Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Black-crowned Tchagra, Red-eyed Puffback, Northern Puffback, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Tropical Boubou, Brubru, White-crested Helmetshrike, Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike, African Shrike-flycatcher, Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike, African Golden Oriole, Western Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Fork-tailed Drongo (lugubris), Shining Drongo, Sharpe’s Drongo, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (ignea), Emin’s Shrike, African Blue Flycatcher, White-shouldered Black Tit, Yellow Penduline Tit, Western Nicator, Yellow-throated Nicator, Rufous-rumped Lark, Flappet Lark, Sun Lark, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Leaf-love, Black Saw-wing (chalybea), Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin, Moustached Grass Warbler, Northern Crombec, Green Crombec, Lemon-bellied Crombec, Green Hylia, Singing Cisticola, Red-winged Prinia, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Green-backed Eremomela, Northern Yellow White-eye, Brown Illadopsis, Brown Babbler, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, African Spotted Creeper, Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Purple Starling, Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe (woosnami), Pale Flycatcher, White-browed Forest Flycatcher, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Northern Black Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher, Gambaga Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin (mabirae), Brown-chested Alethe (carruthersi), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Red-capped Robin-Chat (intensa), Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Sooty Chat, White-fronted Black Chat, Familiar Chat, Little Green Sunbird, Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Collared Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Olive Sunbird (ragazzii), Green-throated Sunbird, Pygmy Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird (orphogaster), Orange-tufted Sunbird, Splendid Sunbird, Sahel Bush Sparrow, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Baglafecht Weaver (eremobius), Spectacled Weaver, Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Compact Weaver, Blue-billed Malimbe, Crested Malimbe, Red-headed Weaver, Red-headed Quelea, Black-winged Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Red-collared Widowbird, Magpie Mannikin, Woodhouse’s Antpecker, Grey-headed Oliveback, Fawn-breasted Waxbill (paludicola), Red-winged Pytilia, Yellow-winged Pytilia, Red-headed Bluebill, Black-bellied Seedcracker, Brown Twinspot, Black-bellied Firefinch, Bar-breasted Firefinch, Black-faced Firefinch (nigricollis), Wilson’s Indigobird, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah, Yellow-throated Longclaw, West African Seedeater, Gosling’s Bunting, Brown-rumped Bunting and Cabanis’s Bunting
Zémongo Faunal Reserve for Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Capuchin Babbler (bohndorffi) and Forest Scrub Robin (collsi), Zenker’s Honeyguide, Yellow Longbill (hypochondriacus), Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Grey-chinned Sunbird and Woodhouse’s Antpecker, as well as Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Blue-headed Wood Dove, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, White-bellied Kingfisher, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (elgonensis), Speckled Tinkerbird, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Spotted Honeyguide, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Fiery-breasted Bushshrike, Shining Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Western Nicator, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Leaf-love, Green Hylia, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Brown Illadopsis, White-tailed Ant Thrush, White-browed Forest Flycatcher, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Little Green Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Blue-billed Malimbe, Crested Malimbe and Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Manovo-Gounda St Floris NP and Bamingui-Bangoran NP for, at least formerly, Schlegel’s Francolin, Black-breasted Barbet, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Niam-niam Parrot, Red-winged Grey Warbler and Foxy Cisticola, as well as Common Ostrich, Clapperton’s Spurfowl, Mottled Swift, White-rumped Swift, Arabian Bustard, White-bellied Bustard, Jacobin Cuckoo, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Four-banded Sandgrouse, Speckled Pigeon, Mourning Collared Dove, Namaqua Dove, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Black Crowned Crane, Common Buttonquail, Black-headed Lapwing, Temminck’s Courser, Scissor-tailed Kite, African Cuckoo-Hawk (cuculoides), White-headed Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Rüppell’s Vulture, Long-crested Eagle, Gabar Goshawk, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Green Wood Hoopoe, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Purple Roller, Blue-bellied Roller, African Green Bee-eater, Vieillot’s Barbet, White-headed Barbet, Bearded Barbet, Fine-spotted Woodpecker, Bearded Woodpecker, Red-necked Falcon, Senegal Parrot, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Grey-headed Bushshrike, Marsh Tchagra, Black-headed Gonolek, Yellow-billed Shrike, Grey-backed Fiscal, Piapiac, Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark, Crested Lark, Red-throated Rock Martin, Ethiopian Swallow, Wire-tailed Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow (domicella), Mosque Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler, Rock-loving Cisticola (petrophilus), Red-pate Cisticola, Zitting Cisticola, Black-backed Cisticola, Buff-bellied Warbler, Oriole Warbler, Senegal Eremomela, Blackcap Babbler, Long-tailed Glossy Starling, Bronze-tailed Starling, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (minor), Swamp Flycatcher, White-crowned Robin-Chat, White-browed Robin-Chat, Mocking Cliff Chat (coronata), Anteater Chat, Heuglin’s Wheatear, Beautiful Sunbird, Speckle-fronted Weaver, Little Weaver, Heuglin’s Masked Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Black-headed Weaver (capitalis), Red-billed Quelea, Yellow-crowned Bishop, Northern Red Bishop, Fan-tailed Widowbird, White-winged Widowbird, African Silverbill, Lavender Waxbill, Black-rumped Waxbill, Orange-breasted Waxbill, Green-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch, Village Indigobird, Pin-tailed Whydah, Sahel Paradise Whydah, White-rumped Seedeater, Gosling’s Bunting and Golden-breasted Bunting, also waterbirds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Egyptian Goose, African Rail, Lesser Moorhen, Allen’s Gallinule, African Swamphen, Black-winged Stilt, Spur-winged Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, Lesser Jacana, Collared Pratincole, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Shoebill, Great White Pelican and Pink-backed Pelican
Bozoum KBA for Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Niam-niam Parrot, Foxy Cisticola, Red-winged Grey Warbler and Dybowski’s Twinspot, as well as White-crested Turaco, Brown-chested Lapwing, Blue-bellied Roller, Red-throated Bee-eater, Bearded Barbet, Fox Kestrel, Yellow-billed Shrike, Emin’s Shrike, Yellow Penduline Tit, Sun Lark, Rufous Cisticola, Oriole Warbler, Senegal Eremomela, Blackcap Babbler, Purple Starling, Bronze-tailed Starling, White-fronted Black Chat, Splendid Sunbird, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Grey-headed Oliveback, Yellow-winged Pytilia, Black-bellied Firefinch, Black-faced Firefinch (nigricollis), Exclamatory Paradise Whydah and Brown-rumped Bunting
Bouar area and Yadé Massif for Blue Quail, Double-spurred Spurfowl, Brown-backed Honeybird, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Lanner Falcon, Northern Fiscal, Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul, African Yellow Warbler, Whistling Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Short-winged Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Neumann’s Starling, Grey-winged Robin-Chat (nigriceps), Northern Double-collared Sunbird (preussi), Variable Sunbird, Baglafecht Weaver (neumanni), African Firefinch, Cameroon Indigobird, Cuckoo-finch and Mountain Wagtail
TIMING (Jan–Mar)
Best to go when it is dry to avoid access problems (Dec– Apr), which is probably when most forest birds breed
Avoid the main rains (Aug–Oct)
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
Further reading
Découverte du Nord de la Centrafrique: sur les Terres de la Grand Faune by Willy Delvingt & José L P Lobão Tello (2004)
Central African Republic (République Centrafricaine) by R J Dowsett in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
Les Oiseaux d’Afrique Centrale: Liste Faunistique by Patrice Christy & Jean Pierre Vande weghe (1999)
Articles in Malimbus, Bull. ABC, etc.
Websites
UNESCO World Heritage List: Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park and Sangha Trinational
Sangha Lodge
ORGANISATIONS
There is currently no BirdLife Partner in CAR
Bird or conservation organisations active in CAR include –
Association pour la Protection de la Faune en Centrafrique (APFC)
Réseau des Initiatives Communautaires d’Aménagement et de Gestion Intégrée des Ressources Naturelles de la Forêt de Bangassou (RICAGIRN-FB)
African Parks: Chinko
Chengeta Wildlife
WWF: Dzanga-Sangha
WCS