SUB-REGION
Central Africa
SIZE
2,344,858 km² (2nd largest country in Africa and 11th largest in the world)
BIRDS AND BIRDING
SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 1,160 recorded species (1st longest bird list of any country in the ABC region and 10th longest globally)
Endemics (E)
Congo Peafowl | Congo Peacock (NT)
Prigogine’s Nightjar | Itombwe Nightjar (DD)
Itombwe Owl | Congo Bay Owl (DD)
Yellow-crested Helmetshrike (VU)
Grauer’s Cuckooshrike (LC)
Bedford’s Paradise Flycatcher (LC)
Prigogine’s Greenbul (DD)
Kabobo Apalis (VU)
Chapin’s Babbler | Chapin’s Mountain Babbler (LC)
Prigogine’s Double-collared Sunbird | Prigogine’s Sunbird (NT)
Rockefeller’s Sunbird (VU)
Lufira Masked Weaver | Lake Lufira Masked Weaver (LC)
Yellow-legged Weaver (VU)
Black-lored Waxbill (DD)
Near-endemics (NE)
Eastern Dwarf Hornbill | Eastern Little Hornbill
Sladen’s Barbet
Ituri Batis
Yellow-eyed Bristlebill
Sassi’s Olive Greenbul | Sassi’s Greenbul
Brazza’s Martin
Grey-headed Sunbird
Congo Sunbird
Golden-naped Weaver
Bob-tailed Weaver
Jameson’s Antpecker
Grant’s Bluebill
Birds occurring in only two territories of the ABC region but not NE (1/2), including Albertine Rift endemics (ARE) and Zambezian endemics or near-endemics (Z)
Nahan’s Partridge
Albertine Owlet (ARE)
Grauer’s Broadbill | African Green Broadbill (ARE)
Pale-olive Greenbul
Congo Martin | Congo Sand Martin
Bubbling Cisticola
Black-tailed Cisticola | Slender-tailed Cisticola (Z)
Turner’s Eremomela
Angola White-eye
Oberländer’s Ground Thrush | Forest Ground Thrush
White-headed Robin-Chat
Bocage’s Sunbird (Z)
Katanga Masked Weaver (Z)
More ARE occurring in the DRC, including endemic subspecies (ESS)
Handsome Spurfowl
Rwenzori Turaco (ESS bredoi)
Dwarf Honeyguide
Rwenzori Batis
Albertine Sooty Boubou | Albertine Boubou
Willard’s Sooty Boubou
Stripe-breasted Tit (ESS kaboboensis)
Neumann’s Warbler | Short-tailed Warbler
Red-faced Woodland Warbler (ESS schoutedeni)
Grauer’s Warbler
Grauer’s Swamp Warbler
Rwenzori Apalis | Collared Apalis
Mountain Masked Apalis | Black-faced Apalis (ESS marungensis)
Kungwe Apalis
Red-collared Babbler | Red-collared Mountain Babbler
Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher
Red-throated Alethe (ESS kaboboensis)
Archer’s Ground Robin | Archer’s Robin-Chat (ESS kimbutui)
Blue-headed Sunbird (ESS derooi + kaboboensis + marungensis)
Purple-breasted Sunbird
Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird | Stuhlmann’s Sunbird (ESS chapini)
Regal Sunbird
Strange Weaver
Shelley’s Crimsonwing
Dusky Crimsonwing
More Z occurring in the DRC, including ESS
Whyte’s Francolin | Rufous-throated Francolin
Coppery-tailed Coucal
Slaty Egret
Pale-billed Hornbill
Racket-tailed Roller
Böhm’s Bee-eater
Whyte’s Barbet
Anchieta’s Barbet
Miombo Pied Barbet | Miombo Barbet
Dickinson’s Kestrel
Margaret’s Batis | Boulton’s Batis
Souza’s Shrike
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
Rufous-bellied Tit
Miombo Tit | Miombo Grey Tit
Angola Lark
Black-and-rufous Swallow
Red-throated Cliff Swallow | Red-throated Swallow
Red-capped Crombec (ESS schoutedeni)
Laura’s Woodland Warbler
Tinkling Cisticola
Luapula Cisticola
Chirping Cisticola
Long-tailed Cisticola | Tabora Cisticola
Dambo Cisticola | Cloud-scraping Cisticola
Miombo Wren-Warbler
Black-necked Eremomela | Black-collared Eremomela
Hartlaub’s Babbler
Sharp-tailed Starling
Kurrichane Thrush
Miombo Scrub Robin
Böhm’s Flycatcher
Bocage’s Akalat
Collared Palm Thrush
Miombo Rock Thrush
Arnot’s Chat | White-headed Black Chat
Anchieta’s Sunbird | Red-and-blue Sunbird
Bannerman’s Sunbird
Western Miombo Sunbird
Shelley’s Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird | White-breasted Sunbird
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver
Bocage’s Weaver
Bar-winged Weaver
Red-throated Twinspot | Peters’s Twinspot
Brown Firefinch
Zambezi Indigobird | Green Indigobird
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah
Fülleborn’s Longclaw
Grimwood’s Longclaw
Black-faced Canary
Reichard’s Seedeater
Black-eared Seedeater
Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC
Chestnut-breasted Francolin (Z dewittei)
Crawshay’s Francolin (kikuyuensis)
Schuett’s Spurfowl (schuetti)
Cranch’s Spurfowl (cranchii/harterti)
Black-shouldered Nightjar (nigriscapularis)
Rwenzori Nightjar (ARE ruwenzorii)
Black-faced Go-away-bird (leopoldi)
Verreaux’s Turaco (verreauxii)
Eastern Black-billed Turaco | Green-rumped Turaco (emini)
Western Black-billed Turaco | Black-rumped Turaco (schuetti)
Barrow’s Bustard (mackenziei)
Neumann’s Coucal (NE neumanni)
White-breasted Cormorant (lucidus)
Red-chested Goshawk (toussenelii/canescens)
Chestnut Owlet (1/2 castaneum)
Bar-fronted Owlet (ngamiense)
Central African Hoopoe (waibeli)
African Hoopoe (africana)
Eastern Piping Hornbill (sharpii/duboisi)
Grey-headed Barbet (cinereiceps)
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet (duchaillui)
Streaky-throated Barbet (angolensis/ansorgii)
Brown-faced Barbet (minor)
White-faced Barbet (Z macclounii)
Thick-billed Honeyguide (conirostris)
Little Green Woodpecker (permista)
Northern Olive Woodpecker | Red-bellied Woodpecker (ruwenzori)
Grey-headed Parrot (suahelicus)
West African Pitta (angolensis)
East African Pitta (longipennis)
Albertine Bushshrike (ARE centralis)
Perrin’s Bushshrike (viridis)
Anchieta’s Tchagra (anchietae)
Clancey’s Drongo (apivorus)
Glossy-backed Drongo (lugubris)
Malbrant’s Lark (malbranti)
Kakamega Greenbul (kakamegae)
Dark-capped Bulbul (tricolor)
Mangbettu Saw-wing (1/2 mangbettorum)
Shari Saw-wing (chalybea)
Petit’s Saw-wing (petiti)
Eastern Saw-wing (reichenowi)
Lendu Crombec | Chapin’s Crombec (E chapini)
African Reed Warbler (cinnamomeus)
Zambian Yellow Warbler (1/2 bensoni)
Lepe Cisticola (1/2 lepe)
Rufous-crowned Cisticola (nuchalis/awemba)
Angola Cisticola (angolensis)
“Teke” Cisticola
Black-faced Prinia (obscura)
Eastern Buff-throated Apalis (nigrescens)
Tawny-breasted Camaroptera (NE kamitugaensis/toroensis)
Salvadori’s Eremomela (salvadorii )
Grey-caped Capuchin Babbler | Brown-throated Capuchin Babbler (NE bohndorffi)
Miombo Blue-eared Starling (Z elisabeth)
Lippens’s Ground Thrush (E lippensi)
Kivu Ground Thrush (ARE tanganjicae)
Itombwe Flycatcher (E itombwensis)
Rudder’s Forest Robin (E rudderi)
Ruaha Chat (Z collaris)
Stuhlmann’s Weaver (stuhlmanni)
Upemba Masked Weaver (E upembae)
Northern Red-headed Weaver (leuconotos)
Southern Red-headed Weaver (rubriceps)
Black-fronted Red Bishop (nigrifons)
Red-backed Mannikin (woltersi/nigriceps)
Black-faced Quailfinch (atricollis)
Black-chinned Quailfinch (gabonensis/fuscata/dorsostriata)
Pale-billed Firefinch | Landana Firefinch (1/2 landanae)
Ansorge’s Firefinch (ansorgei)
Grey Firefinch (nigricollis)
Jackson’s Pipit (latistriatus)
Benguela Seedeater (benguellensis)
Three-streaked Bunting (cognominata)
Other taxa of interest (see also under Birding Sites), including more ESS
Plumed Guineafowl (ESS schubotzi)
Finsch’s Francolin
Heuglin’s Spurfowl
Bates’s Nightjar
Scarce Swift (chapini)
Ross’s Turaco
Gabon Coucal
White-naped Pigeon
Forbes’s Plover
Grey Pratincole
Spot-breasted Ibis
Congo Serpent Eagle | Congo Snake Eagle (batesi)
Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk (ESS beniensis)
Red-chested Owlet (medje)
Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet | Sjöstedt’s Owlet
Maned Owl
Vermiculated Fishing Owl
Bare-cheeked Trogon
Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill
Black-headed Bee-eater
Blue-headed Bee-eater
Blue-breasted Bee-eater (loringi/variegatus/bangweoloensis)
Rosy Bee-eater
Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (purpuratus/elgonensis)
Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei)
Zenker’s Honeyguide
Gabon Woodpecker
Elliot’s Woodpecker (elliotii)
Grey Parrot
Black-collared Lovebird (zenkeri/emini)
Grey-headed Broadbill (ESS eurylaemus)
Rufous-sided Broadbill (budongoensis)
Green-breasted Pitta
Angola Batis
White-spotted Wattle-eye
Jameson’s Wattle-eye
Black-fronted Bushshrike (manningi)
Bocage’s Bushshrike | Grey-green Bushshrike
Doherty’s Bushshrike
Red-eyed Puffback | Black-shouldered Puffback
Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (rufiventris/mentalis)
Eastern Wattled Cuckooshrike | Oriole Cuckooshrike
Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher
Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher (batesi/bannermani)
Forest Penduline Tit (ESS ruthae)
Black-collared Bulbul
Joyful Greenbul (laetissima/schoutedeni)
Falkenstein’s Greenbul | Yellow-necked Greenbul
Sjöstedt’s Greenbul
Eastern Bearded Greenbul
White-bearded Greenbul
Xavier’s Greenbul (xavieri)
Grey-olive Greenbul (ESS cerviniventris)
Yellow-streaked Greenbul (ESS graueri)
Toro Olive Greenbul
African River Martin
Square-tailed Saw-wing (ESS centralis)
Red-chested Swallow (subalaris)
White-browed Crombec (ESS chapini)
Uganda Woodland Warbler
White-winged Swamp Warbler | White-winged Scrub Warbler
Trilling Cisticola (woosnami/lufira)
Chattering Cisticola
Chubb’s Cisticola (ESS marungensis)
Levaillant’s Cisticola (ESS dyleffi)
Wing-snapping Cisticola (ESS itombwensis)
Black-collared Apalis (ESS murphyi)
Red-winged Grey Warbler
Black-capped Apalis (collaris)
Gosling’s Apalis
Brown-headed Apalis (ESS dowsetti)
Olive-green Camaroptera (ESS kamitugaensis)
Brown Parisoma (ESS prigoginei)
Green White-eye (ESS reichenowi)
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis
Spotted Thrush-Babbler (turdina/upembae)
Dusky Babbler
Southern Hyliota (slatini)
White-collared Starling
Fraser’s Rufous Thrush | Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (rubicunda/vulpina)
Black-eared Ground Thrush (graueri)
Spotted Ground Thrush (ESS lippensi)
Crossley’s Ground Thrush (ESS pilettei)
Forest Scrub Robin (collsi)
Brown-backed Scrub Robin
Chapin’s Flycatcher (ESS itombwensis)
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (ESS semicinctus)
Sooty Flycatcher (fuliginosa/minuscula)
Yellow-footed Flycatcher
Swamp Flycatcher (ESS lualabae)
White-bellied Robin-Chat (rufescentior)
Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush
Short-tailed Akalat | Alexander’s Akalat (ESS kaboboensis + schoutedeni)
Lowland Akalat (lopezi)
Congo Moor Chat
Violet-tailed Sunbird
Reichenbach’s Sunbird
Scarlet-tufted Sunbird (ESS itombwensis)
Golden-winged Sunbird (ESS shellyae)
Orange-tufted Sunbird
Thick-billed Weaver (ESS kasaica)
Black-chinned Weaver
Village Weaver (ESS frobenii)
Weyns’s Weaver
Yellow-capped Weaver
Red-crowned Malimbe
Cassin’s Malimbe | Black-throated Malimbe
Red-bellied Malimbe (ESS fagani)
Black-headed Waxbill (ESS marungensis)
Dusky Twinspot (graueri)
Brown Twinspot
African Pipit (ESS itombwensis)
Long-legged Pipit (pallidiventris/esobe)
National bird
Congo Peafowl | Mbulu (NT)
MAIN HABITATS
Lowland forest, montane forest, moist savanna, miombo woodland, gallery forest, grasslands, wetlands
BIRD AREAS
Albertine Rift mountains Endemic Bird Area (EBA)
Eastern Zaïre lowlands EBA
Gabon-Cabinda coast Secondary Area (SA)
Lake Lufira SA
Upemba plains SA
West Zaïre and North Angola forests SA
19 Important Bird Areas
BIRDING SITES
Kinshasa (Congo River, N’Sele Valley Park, Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary and Lake Ma Vallée), Zongo Falls and Kisantu Botanical Garden for Congo Martin, Red-faced Cisticola (lepe), Bob-tailed Weaver and African Firefinch (landanae), Black-headed Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Bee-eater (variegatus), Red-eyed Puffback, Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher, Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher (bannermani), Falkenstein’s Greenbul, Red-chested Swallow (subalaris), Chattering Cisticola, Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, Reichenbach’s Sunbird and Brown Twinspot, Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Mottled Spinetail (sharpei), Western Plantain-eater, Guinea Turaco (zenkeri), Blue Malkoha (aereus), White-spotted Flufftail (centralis), Blue-breasted Kingfisher (malimbica), Black Bee-eater (australis), Speckled Tinkerbird (flavisquamatus), Yellow-throated Tinkerbird (flavimentum), Grey Parrot, Red-headed Lovebird (pullarius), Western Black-headed Batis (congoensis), Chestnut Wattle-eye, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul (gracilirostris), Red-tailed Bristlebill (syndactylus), Simple Greenbul, Honeyguide Greenbul (indicator), Yellow-whiskered Greenbul (latirostris), Plain Greenbul (curvirostris), Little Grey Greenbul (gracilis), Black Saw-wing (petiti), White-bibbed Swallow, Grey Longbill, Green Crombec (tando), Green Hylia (prasina), White-chinned Prinia (leucopogon), Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Splendid Starling (splendidus), Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (niveicapilla), Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (octaviae), Carmelite Sunbird (fuliginosa), Amethyst Sunbird (deminuta), Green-throated Sunbird (rubescens), Johanna’s Sunbird (johannae), Superb Sunbird (superbus), Slender-billed Weaver (monacha), Vieillot’s Black Weaver, Compact Weaver, White-breasted Nigrita (fusconotus), Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (brunnescens), Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Fawn-breasted Waxbill (ruthae), Blue Waxbill (angolensis), Western Bluebill (pustulata), Black-bellied Seedcracker and Black-faced Canary, waterbirds including Allen’s Gallinule, Lesser Moorhen, Black Crake, Little Grebe (capensis), Three-banded Plover (tricollaris), White-crowned Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, White-fronted Plover (mechowi), African Jacana, Rock Pratincole (nuchalis), Grey Pratincole, Collared Pratincole (fuelleborni), African Skimmer, African Openbill, African Darter (rufa), Reed Cormorant (africanus), Little Bittern (payesii), Black-crowned Night Heron (nycticorax), Little Egret (garzetta), Little Heron (atricapilla), Squacco Heron, Great Egret (melanorhynchos), Grey Heron (cinerea), Purple Heron (purpurea), Goliath Heron and Hamerkop (umbretta), as well as more widespread and common birds such as Rufous-cheeked Nightjar, African Palm Swift (brachypterus), Little Swift (aerobates), White-rumped Swift, Senegal Coucal (senegalensis), Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Red-eyed Dove, Ring-necked Dove (tropica), Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Western Cattle Egret, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk (pectoralis), Palm-nut Vulture, Lizard Buzzard (monogrammicus), Yellow-billed Kite, Red-necked Buzzard, Western Barn Owl, Speckled Mousebird (nigricollis), Broad-billed Roller (afer), Woodland Kingfisher (fuscopileus), African Pygmy Kingfisher (ferrugina), Malachite Kingfisher (cristatus), Giant Kingfisher (gigantea), Pied Kingfisher (rudis), Little Bee-eater (meridionalis), Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (leucolaimus), Cardinal Woodpecker (sharpii), African Grey Woodpecker (meridionalis), Common Kestrel (rufescens), Peregrine Falcon (minor), Brown-throated Wattle-eye (cyanea), Northern Fiscal (capelli), Pied Crow, Pale-throated Greenbul (soror), Little Greenbul (virens), Common Bulbul (tricolor), Grey-rumped Swallow (griseopyga), Lesser Striped Swallow (unitatis), Winding Cisticola (amphilectus), Tawny-flanked Prinia (graueri), Grey-backed Camaroptera (tincta), African Thrush (saturatus), White-browed Scrub Robin (munda), White-browed Robin-Chat (subrufescens), Collared Sunbird (somereni), Green-headed Sunbird (bohndorffi), Olive Sunbird (cephaelis), Olive-bellied Sunbird (chloropygius), Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Copper Sunbird (cupreus), Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (ugandae), Spectacled Weaver (crocatus), Black-necked Weaver (nigricollis), Village Weaver (bohndorffi), Black-headed Weaver (duboisi), Yellow-crowned Bishop (afer), Bronze Mannikin (cucullata), Magpie Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin (poensis), Common Waxbill (rubriventris), Orange-breasted Waxbill (subflava), Pin-tailed Whydah, African Pied Wagtail and African Pipit (unknown subspecies)
Bombo Lumene Hunting Area and Reserve for Angola White-eye and White-headed Robin-Chat, Finsch’s Francolin, Ross’s Turaco, Gabon Coucal, Miombo Pied Barbet, Black-backed Barbet (minor), Angola Batis, Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), Souza’s Shrike (souzae), White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Rufous-bellied Tit (rufiventris), Black-collared Bulbul, Red-capped Crombec (rufigenis), Teke Cisticola (undescribed form), Miombo Wren-Warbler (cinereus), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (salvadorii ), Black-chinned Weaver, Marsh Widowbird (humeralis), Grey Waxbill (perreini), Long-legged Pipit (pallidiventris) and Short-tailed Pipit (leggei), as well as White-faced Whistling Duck, Helmeted Guineafowl (galeatus), Harlequin Quail, Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), Swamp Nightjar, Denham’s Bustard (jacksoni), Black-bellied Bustard, Black Coucal, African Emerald Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon (calvus), African Crake, Common Buttonquail, Senegal Lapwing, African Wattled Lapwing (lateralis), Temminck’s Courser, Dwarf Bittern, Black-headed Heron, African Cuckoo-Hawk (batesi), Black-chested Snake Eagle, Bateleur, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Marsh Harrier, Southern White-faced Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon (brachyurum), Black Scimitarbill (anchietae), Congo Pied Hornbill, Piping Hornbill (sharpii), Lilac-breasted Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Brown-hooded Kingfisher (prentissgrayi), Striped Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni), Red-throated Wryneck (ruficollis), Green-backed Woodpecker (permista), African Hobby, Bocage’s Bushshrike (bocagei), Marsh Tchagra (anchietae), Brown-crowned Tchagra (emini), Black-crowned Tchagra (armenus), Tropical Boubou (major), Brubru (nigritemporalis), Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (musicus), Fork-tailed Drongo (apivorus), African Paradise Flycatcher (speciosa), White-winged Black Tit (insignis), Grey Penduline Tit (ansorgei), Flappet Lark (schoutedeni), Leaf-love (orientalis), Banded Martin (parvula), Angola Swallow, Red-breasted Swallow (gordoni), Mosque Swallow (saturatior), Moustached Grass Warbler, Whistling Cisticola (modestus), Rattling Cisticola (fortis), Croaking Cisticola (strangei), Short-winged Cisticola (brachypterus), Neddicky (dispar), Zitting Cisticola (terrestris), Green-capped Eremomela (congensis), Brown Illadopsis (fulvescens), Yellow-bellied Hyliota (barbozae), Pale Flycatcher (murinus), Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher (griseigularis), Grey Tit-Flycatcher (plumbea), Ashy Flycatcher (brevicauda), Southern Black Flycatcher (poliogynus), Cassin’s Flycatcher, African Stonechat (salax), Sooty Chat, Western Violet-backed Sunbird (angolensis), Violet-tailed Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird (saturatior), Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow (rufitergum), Holub’s Golden Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver (tephronotus), Black-winged Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Red-collared Widowbird, Wood Pipit (schoutedeni), Black-throated Canary (lwenarum), Yellow-fronted Canary (tando), Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (tahapisi), Golden-breasted Bunting (kalaharica) and Cabanis’s Bunting (cognominata)
Luki Biosphere Reserve for Yellow-billed Turaco (verreauxii), Bristle-nosed Barbet, Naked-faced Barbet (congicus), Yellow-lored Bristlebill, Blackcap Illadopsis (batesi) and Fraser’s Sunbird (cameroonensis), as well as Plumed Guineafowl (plumifera), Latham’s Francolin (lathami), Scaly Spurfowl (squamatus), Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Guinea Turaco, Gabon Coucal, Black Cuckoo (gabonensis), Blue-headed Wood Dove (brehmeri), Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk (castanilius), African Goshawk (toussenelii), Black Sparrowhawk (temminckii), Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller (neglectus), African Dwarf Kingfisher (lecontei), White-bellied Kingfisher (leucogaster), Shining-blue Kingfisher (guentheri), Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (purpuratus), Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet (duchaillui), Hairy-breasted Barbet (angolensis), Least Honeyguide (exilis), Spotted Honeyguide (stictithorax), African Piculet, Buff-spotted Woodpecker (nivosus), Brown-eared Woodpecker (caroli), Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Gabon Woodpecker (gabonensis), Elliot’s Woodpecker (elliotii), Red-fronted Parrot (gulielmi), Rufous-sided Broadbill (rufolateralis), White-spotted Wattle-eye, Sabine’s Puffback (melanoleucus), Pink-footed Puffback (angolensis), Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (rufiventris), African Shrike-flycatcher (flammulatus), Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike (quiscalina), Blue Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole (laetior), Black-winged Oriole, Sharpe’s Drongo (sharpei), Velvet-mantled Drongo (coracinus), Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher (nitens), Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (mayombe), Yellow-throated Nicator, Golden Greenbul, Spotted Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul (calurus), White-bearded Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul (albigularis), Xavier’s Greenbul (xavieri), Icterine Greenbul, Square-tailed Saw-wing (nitens), Yellow Longbill (flavicans), Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (mccallii), Banded Prinia (bairdii), Buff-throated Apalis (nigrescens), Olive-green Camaroptera (chloronata), Rufous-crowned Eremomela (badiceps), Violet-backed Hyliota (violacea), Purple-headed Starling, Chestnut-winged Starling (intermedius), Narrow-tailed Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush (rubicunda), White-tailed Ant Thrush (poensis), Black-eared Ground Thrush (camaronensis), Brown-chested Alethe (compsonota), Red-capped Robin-Chat (larischi), Fire-crested Alethe (castania), Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher (ocreata), Olivaceous Flycatcher (olivascens), Sooty Flycatcher (fuliginosa), Little Grey Flycatcher, Little Green Sunbird (minor), Grey-chinned Sunbird, Yellow-mantled Weaver (tricolor), Cassin’s Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe (rubricollis), Red-bellied Malimbe (erythrogaster), Crested Malimbe (malimbicus), Green Twinspot (schlegeli), Black-headed Waxbill (avakubi), Woodhouse’s Antpecker (woodhousei), Grey-headed Nigrita (angolensis) and Pale-fronted Nigrita (luteifrons)
Coast (Muanda, Mangroves Marine Park and Congo River Mouth) for Pale-olive Greenbul, Bubbling Cisticola (septentrionalis), Loango Weaver and Jameson’s Firefinch (ansorgei), as well as Square-tailed Nightjar (fossii), Horus Swift, Grey Go-away-bird (pallidiceps), Blue-headed Coucal (occidentalis), Laughing Dove (senegalensis), Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Namaqua Dove (capensis), Spotted Thick-knee (capensis), African Fish Eagle, Red-faced Mousebird (lacteifrons), Common Hoopoe (africana), Crowned Hornbill, Grey-headed Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, White-fronted Bee-eater, Double-toothed Barbet (bidentatus), Greater Honeyguide, Orange-breasted Bushshrike (similis), Grey Kestrel, Northern Puffback (congicus), Swamp Boubou (guttatus), Mackinnon’s Shrike, Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark (damarensis), Swamp Palm Bulbul, Grey-rumped Swallow (melbina), Greater Swamp Warbler (rufescens), Yellow-breasted Apalis (caniceps), Cape Starling, White-collared Starling, Familiar Chat (angolensis), Mangrove Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird (cyanocephala), Purple-banded Sunbird (bifasciatus), Thick-billed Weaver (tandae), Orange Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver (cabanisii), Village Weaver (collaris), Red-billed Quelea (lathamii), Black Bishop (gierowii), White-winged Widowbird (asymmetrurus), Green-winged Pytilia (melba), Yellow-throated Longclaw and waterbirds including Fulvous Whistling Duck, African Pygmy Goose, African Spoonbill, Black Heron and Western Reef Heron, with Damara Tern, West African Crested Tern, Wilson’s Storm Petrel and Cape Cormorant offshore
Swa-Kibula Hunting Area and Reserve for Brazza’s Martin and Angola White-eye, Anchieta’s Barbet (katangae), Miombo Pied Barbet, Angola Batis, Gorgeous Bushshrike (viridis), White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Rufous-bellied Tit, Plains Lark (malbranti), Black-collared Bulbul, Red-throated Cliff Swallow, Red-capped Crombec, Chirping Cisticola (congo), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (salvadorii ), Black-necked Eremomela, Böhm’s Flycatcher, Arnot’s Chat (harterti) and Streaky-headed Seedeater (benguellensis), as well as Böhm’s Spinetail (boehmi), Black Scimitarbill, Bateleur, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Grass Owl, Southern White-faced Owl, Striped Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, White-fronted Bee-eater, Red-throated Wryneck, Golden-tailed Woodpecker (abingoni), Chinspot Batis (pintoi), Marsh Tchagra (anchietae), Brown-crowned Tchagra (souzae), Retz’s Helmetshrike (nigricans), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Black-backed Puffback (hamatus), Northern Puffback (congicus), Dusky Lark (occidentis), Green-capped Eremomela, Arrow-marked Babbler (hyposticta), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Splendid Starling (bailundensis), Groundscraper Thrush (stierlingi), African Thrush (bocagei), Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, Village Weaver (ESS frobenii), Compact Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver (amaurocephalus), Brown Twinspot, Wood Pipit and Cabanis’s Bunting
Gungu Hunting Area and Reserve for Black-tailed Cisticola, Congo Moor Chat, Bocage’s Sunbird and Grimwood’s Longclaw
LuiKotale (Bonobo Project) Camp and Salonga National Park (NP) for Congo Peafowl, Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Sladen’s Barbet, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Brazza’s Martin, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Grey-headed Sunbird and Grant’s Bluebill, Hartlaub’s Duck, Western Crested Guineafowl (verreauxi), Brown Nightjar, Bates’s Nightjar, Sabine’s Spinetail, Black-billed Turaco (schuetti), Thick-billed Cuckoo (brazzae), Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, Nkulengu Rail, Spot-breasted Ibis, White-crested Tiger Heron, Congo Serpent Eagle (batesi), Red-thighed Sparrowhawk (zenkeri), Red-chested Owlet (medje), Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Bare-cheeked Trogon, Black-casqued Hornbill, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Black-collared Lovebird (zenkeri), Shining Drongo, Dusky Tit (funereus), Sjöstedt’s Greenbul, Eastern Bearded Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul (ansorgei), Lemon-bellied Crombec (denti), Gosling’s Apalis, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Red-tailed Ant Thrush (gabunensis), White-browed Forest Flycatcher (ruthae), Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Tiny Sunbird, Bates’s Sunbird and Blue-billed Malimbe, as well as Latham’s Francolin (schubotzi), Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Gabon Coucal, Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Finfoot (camerunensis), White-spotted Flufftail, Crowned Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, Black Sparrowhawk (melanoleucus), African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon, Congo Pied Hornbill, Piping Hornbill (duboisi), Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, White-bellied Kingfisher (leopoldi), Black-headed Bee-eater, Black Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Bee-eater (loringi), Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei), Speckled Tinkerbird, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet (ansorgii), Spotted Honeyguide, Lesser Honeyguide (conirostris), Buff-spotted Woodpecker (herberti), Brown-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Chestnut Wattle-eye, White-spotted Wattle-eye, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike (mentalis), African Shrike-flycatcher (aequatorialis), Blue Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher (batesi), Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul (emini), Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, White-bibbed Swallow, Yellow Longbill (hypochondriacus), Grey Longbill, Green Crombec (baraka), Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Green Hylia, Chattering Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Buff-throated Apalis, Brown Illadopsis, Violet-backed Hyliota, Purple-headed Starling, Chestnut-winged Starling (hartlaubii), Fraser’s Rufous Thrush (vulpina), White-tailed Ant Thrush (praepectoralis), Fire-crested Alethe, Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Sooty Flycatcher (miniscula), Cassin’s Flycatcher, Violet-tailed Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Reichenbach’s Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Green-throated Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird (orphogaster), Johanna’s Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Yellow-mantled Weaver (interscapularis), Cassin’s Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-bellied Malimbe, Crested Malimbe (crassirostris), White-breasted Nigrita, Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Nigrita (canicapillus) and Pale-fronted Nigrita
Malebo (WWF Station) and Nkombo Forest for many of the same taxa occurring in Salonga NP, including Sladen’s Barbet and Grey-headed Sunbird, as well as Grey-throated Rail, African Goshawk (toussenelii), Black Scimitarbill, African Dwarf Kingfisher, Rosy Bee-eater, Zenker’s Honeyguide, Willcocks’s Honeyguide (willcocksi), Western Black-headed Batis, Black-crowned Tchagra, White-winged Black Tit, Flappet Lark, South African Cliff Swallow, Red-capped Crombec, Red-faced Cisticola (lepe), Whistling Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Short-winged Cisticola, Yellow-browed Camaroptera, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Green-capped Eremomela, White-browed Scrub Robin, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Sooty Chat, Bates’s Sunbird, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Fan-tailed Widowbird, White-winged Widowbird, Woodhouse’s Antpecker (ansorgei) and Black-bellied Seedcracker
Mbandaka (Congo River and Eala Botanical Garden) for Congo Martin, Congo Sunbird and Bob-tailed Weaver, Rufous-tailed Palm Thrush, Slender-billed Weaver, Orange Weaver and Long-legged Pipit (esobe), and within range of Rosy Bee-eater, African River Martin and Weyns’s Weaver as well as Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lugens), Pale-crowned Cisticola (midcongo), Wing-snapping Cisticola (gabun), Quailfinch (gabonensis) and Locust Finch (uelensis)
Lomako-Yokokala Wildlife Reserve (WR) for Congo Peafowl, Eastern Dwarf Hornbill, Sladen’s Barbet, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), Grey-headed Sunbird and Grant’s Bluebill, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl (poensis), Shelley’s Eagle-Owl, Cassin’s Honeybird (insignis), Green-breasted Pitta, Dusky Crested Flycatcher (nigromitrata), Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (congicus), Tit Hylia (denti), Pale-breasted Illadopsis (rufipennis), Brown-chested Alethe (carruthersi), Yellow-footed Flycatcher and Black-crowned Waxbill (nonnula), as well as Hartlaub’s Duck, Western Crested Guineafowl, Latham’s Francolin, Bates’s Nightjar, Sabine’s Spinetail, Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Gabon Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Finfoot, White-spotted Flufftail, Grey-throated Rail, Nkulengu Rail, Spot-breasted Ibis, Palm-nut Vulture, Congo Serpent Eagle, Crowned Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, African Goshawk (toussenelii), Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, Red-chested Owlet, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Narina Trogon, Congo Pied Hornbill, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Piping Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Black-casqued Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, African Dwarf Kingfisher, White-bellied Kingfisher, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, Grey-throated Barbet (bonapartei), Speckled Tinkerbird, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Least Honeyguide, Spotted Honeyguide, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Green-backed Woodpecker (permista), Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Gabon Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Red-fronted Parrot, Black-collared Lovebird, Rufous-sided Broadbill, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Sabine’s Puffback, Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike, African Shrike-flycatcher, Blue Cuckooshrike, Western Oriole, Shining Drongo, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (ignea), Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher, African Blue Flycatcher, Dusky Tit, Western Nicator, Slender-billed Greenbul, Golden Greenbul, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Eastern Bearded Greenbul, Red-tailed Greenbul, White-bearded Greenbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Ansorge’s Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Square-tailed Saw-wing, White-bibbed Swallow, Yellow Longbill, Grey Longbill, Green Crombec, Green Hylia, Chattering Cisticola, Buff-throated Apalis, Gosling’s Apalis, Rufous-crowned Eremomela, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Brown Illadopsis, Purple-headed Starling, Chestnut-winged Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, Red-tailed Ant Thrush, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Fraser’s Forest Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Violet-tailed Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Grey-chinned Sunbird, Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Tiny Sunbird, Johanna’s Sunbird, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Cassin’s Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe, Red-bellied Malimbe, Woodhouse’s Antpecker, Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Grey-headed Nigrita and Western Bluebill
Lokutu for Congo Sunbird and Bob-tailed Weaver, as well as Mottled Spinetail, Forbes’s Plover, Grey Pratincole, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Rosy Bee-eater, Grey Parrot, Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Red-eyed Puffback, Yellow-throated Nicator, Pale-throated Greenbul, White-bibbed Swallow, White-collared Starling, Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Reichenbach’s Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Orange Weaver and Black-headed Waxbill
Lomami NP for Hartlaub’s Duck, Western Crested Guineafowl, Swamp Nightjar, Bates’s Nightjar, Sabine’s Spinetail, Cassin’s Spinetail, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Gabon Coucal, African Emerald Cuckoo, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Finfoot, Senegal Lapwing, Rock Pratincole, Spot-breasted Ibis, Crowned Eagle, Sjöstedt’s Barred Owlet, Maned Owl, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Narina Trogon, Congo Pied Hornbill, Piping Hornbill, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Blue-throated Roller, Shining-blue Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Speckled Tinkerbird, Red-rumped Tinkerbird, Yellow-throated Tinkerbird, Grey Parrot, Black-collared Lovebird, Western Oriole, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Western Nicator, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Plain Greenbul, White-bibbed Swallow, Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Green Hylia, Chattering Cisticola, Pale-crowned Cisticola, White-chinned Prinia, Brown Illadopsis, Splendid Starling, Chestnut-winged Starling, White-tailed Ant Thrush, Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher, Cassin’s Flycatcher, Violet-tailed Sunbird, Johanna’s Sunbird, White-breasted Nigrita and Fülleborn’s Longclaw
Upemba NP, Kundelungu NP, Lufira Biosphere Reserve, Lake Tshangalele, Mufufya Integral Hunting Reserve, Basse Kando Hunting Area and Reserve, Lubudi Sampwe and Bena Mulumbu Hunting Areas, Lake Mweru and Demalisques de Leshwe for Lufira Masked Weaver and Black-lored Waxbill, Papyrus Yellow Warbler (bensoni) and Spotted Ground Thrush (ESS lippensi), Black-tailed Cisticola, Katanga Masked Weaver (ESS upembae/katangae) and most of the other Zambezian endemics or near-endemics listed above including White-throated Francolin (dewittei), Black-backed Barbet (macclounii) and Lesser Blue-eared Starling (elisabeth), Ross’s Turaco, Lemon Dove (samaliyae), Grey Crowned Crane (gibbericeps), Black-headed Gonolek, Blue-breasted Bee-eater (bangweoloensis), Olive Woodpecker (ruwenzori), Black-fronted Bushshrike (manningi), Purple-throated Cuckooshrike (martini), Square-tailed Drongo (saturnus), Sharpe’s Drongo (sharpei), Spike-heeled Lark (obscurata), Grey-olive Greenbul (ESS cerviniventris), White-winged Swamp Warbler, Trilling Cisticola (lufira), Spotted Thrush-Babbler (upembae), Splendid Starling (bailundensis), Orange Ground Thrush (otomitra), Swamp Flycatcher (ESS lualabae), Brown-chested Alethe (ufipae), Orange-tufted Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver, Marsh Widowbird (hartlaubi), Long-tailed Widowbird (delacouri), Grey Waxbill and Locust Finch (locustella), as well as Helmeted Guineafowl (marungensis), Coqui Francolin (coqui), Red-winged Francolin (momboloensis), Shelley’s Francolin (shelleyi), Blue Quail, Harlequin Quail (delegorguei), Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl (hildebrandti), Red-necked Spurfowl (cranchii), Fiery-necked Nightjar (shelleyi), Swamp Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar (granosus), Square-tailed Nightjar (welwitschii), Pennant-winged Nightjar, Böhm’s Spinetail, African Palm Swift (myochrous), Horus Swift, White-rumped Swift, Grey Go-away-bird (molybdophanes), Schalow’s Turaco (marungensis), Denham’s Bustard, White-bellied Bustard (mackenziei), Black-bellied Bustard (melanogaster), Senegal Coucal (flecki), White-browed Coucal (loandae), Great Spotted Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo (pica), Thick-billed Cuckoo (validus), Black Cuckoo (clamosus), Lesser Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, African Olive Pigeon, Mourning Collared Dove (ambigua), Ring-necked Dove, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Namaqua Dove, African Green Pigeon (salvadorii), Red-chested Flufftail (rufa), Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lynesi), Streaky-breasted Flufftail, Common Buttonquail (lepurana), Black-rumped Buttonquail, Spotted Thick-knee, Crowned Lapwing (coronatus), Caspian Plover, African Snipe (angolensis), Bronze-winged Courser, Temminck’s Courser (ruvanensis), Hadada Ibis (brevirostris), Western Cattle Egret, Black-headed Heron, Black-winged Kite (caeruleus), African Harrier-Hawk (typus), African Cuckoo-Hawk (verreauxii), Hooded Vulture, White-backed Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Black-chested Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Bateleur, Bat Hawk (anderssoni), Crowned Eagle, Martial Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Tawny Eagle (rapax), African Hawk-Eagle, Lizard Buzzard (meridionalis), Gabar Goshawk (aequatorius), Dark Chanting Goshawk (mechowi), Shikra (polyzonoides), Little Sparrowhawk (minullus), Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Marsh Harrier, Yellow-billed Kite (parasitus), African Fish Eagle, Augur Buzzard, Pearl-spotted Owlet (licua), African Barred Owlet (ngamiense), African Scops Owl (senegalensis), Southern White-faced Owl, Marsh Owl (capensis), Spotted Eagle-Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl, African Wood Owl (woodfordii), Speckled Mousebird (congicus), Red-faced Mousebird (mossambicus), Narina Trogon (narina), Eurasian Hoopoe (africana), Green Wood Hoopoe (marwitzi), Common Scimitarbill (schalowi), Southern Ground Hornbill, Crowned Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill (epirhinus), Trumpeter Hornbill, Purple Roller (mosambicus), Lilac-breasted Roller (caudatus), Broad-billed Roller (suahelicus), Grey-headed Kingisher (pallidiventris), Brown-hooded Kingfisher (orientalis), Striped Kingfisher (chelicuti), Woodland Kingfisher (cyanoleuca), African Pygmy Kingfisher (natalensis), Half-collared Kingfisher (tephria), Giant Kingfisher (maxima), Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (furcatus), Little Bee-eater (meridionalis), White-fronted Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater (superciliosus), Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Crested Barbet (suahelicus), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni), Black-collared Barbet (congicus), Green-backed Honeybird (zambesiae), Brown-backed Honeybird (regulus), Pallid Honeyguide (angolensis), Least Honeyguide (cerophagus), Lesser Honeyguide (teitensis), Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Bennett’s Woodpecker (bennetti), Golden-tailed Woodpecker (abingoni), Little Spotted Woodpecker (nyansae), Bearded Woodpecker (namaquus), Cardinal Woodpecker (centralis), Rock Kestrel, Grey Kestrel, Brown-necked Parrot (suahelicus), Meyer’s Parrot (matschiei), African Broadbill (albigularis), Chinspot Batis (palliditergum), Black-throated Wattle-eye (mentalis), Grey-headed Bushshrike (interpositus), Orange-breasted Bushshrike (similis), Marsh Tchagra (anchietae), Brown-crowned Tchagra (souzae), Black-crowned Tchagra (armenus), Black-backed Puffback (hamatus), Tropical Boubou (major), Brubru (nigritemporalis/brubru/affinis), White-crested Helmetshrike (poliocephalus), Retz’s Helmetshrike, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Black Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole (angolensis), African Golden Oriole (notatus), Fork-tailed Drongo (apivorus), Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (vivax), African Paradise Flycatcher (plumbeiceps), Northern Fiscal (humeralis/capelli), Cape Crow, White-winged Black Tit, Grey Penduline Tit (rhodesiae/winterbottomi), Dusky Lark (nigricans), Rufous-naped Lark (chapini), Flappet Lark (fischeri), Red-capped Lark (saturatior), Pale-throated Greenbul (flavigula), Yellow-bellied Greenbul (occidentalis), Little Greenbul (zombensis), Terrestrial Brownbul (rhodesiae), Cabanis’s Greenbul (cabanisi), Black Saw-wing (reichenowi), Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin (suahelica/cincta), Pearl-breasted Swallow (marwitzi), Angola Swallow, White-throated Swallow, Wire-tailed Swallow (smithii), Greater Striped Swallow, Red-breasted Swallow (semirufa), Mosque Swallow (monteiri), Moustached Grass Warbler (mentalis), Long-billed Crombec (adelphe), Greater Swamp Warbler (ansorgei), Lesser Swamp Warbler (leptorhynchus/winterbottomi), African Yellow Warbler (major), Fan-tailed Grassbird (alexinae), Little Rush Warbler (msiri), Red-faced Cisticola (nyasa), Whistling Cisticola (modestus), Rattling Cisticola (fortis), Winding Cisticola (suahelicus), Levaillant’s Cisticola (shiwae/perpullus), Stout Cisticola (awemba/angolensis), Croaking Cisticola (katanga), Short-winged Cisticola (loanda), Neddicky (muelleri), Zitting Cisticola (terrestris), Pale-crowned Cisticola (cinnamomeus), Wing-snapping Cisticola (ayresii), Tawny-flanked Prinia (graueri/affinis), White-chinned Prinia (leucopogon), Yellow-breasted Apalis (neglecta), Brown-headed Apalis (alticola), Grey-backed Camaropera (intercalata), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (polioxantha), Green-capped Eremomela (pulchra), Southern Yellow White-eye (anderssoni), Arrow-marked Babbler (tanganjicae), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Southern Hyliota (inornata), African Spotted Creeper (salvadori), Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling (sycobius), Violet-backed Starling (verreauxi), Red-billed Oxpecker, Groundscraper Thrush, African Thrush (stormsi), White-browed Scrub Robin (zambesiana), Pale Flycatcher (murinus), Grey Tit-Flycatcher (catoleuca), Southern Black Flycatcher (tropicalis), African Dusky Flycatcher (subadusta), White-browed Robin-Chat (heuglini), Red-capped Robin-Chat (intensa), Grey-winged Robin-Chat (polioptera), African Stonechat (stonei), Sooty Chat, Capped Wheatear (livingstonii), Familiar Chat (modesta/falkensteini), Western Violet-backed Sunbird (angolensis), Collared Sunbird (zambesiana), Olive Sunbird (ragazzii), Amethyst Sunbird (deminuta), Scarlet-chested Sunbird (gutturalis/saturatior), Purple-banded Sunbird (microrhynchus), Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Copper Sunbird (chalceus), Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow (rufitergum), Thick-billed Weaver (ESS kasaica), Spectacled Weaver (crocatus), Holub’s Golden Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver (cabanisii), Village Weaver (nigriceps), Black-headed Weaver (duboisi), Dark-backed Weaver (kigomaensis), Red-headed Weaver (rubriceps), Red-headed Quelea, Yellow-crowned Bishop (taha), Southern Red Bishop, Yellow Bishop (crassirostris), Fan-tailed Widowbird (bocagei), Yellow-mantled Widowbird (macroura), White-winged Widowbird (albonotatus), Red-collared Widowbird, Bronze Mannikin (scutata), Black-and-white Mannikin (woltersi/nigriceps), Fawn-breasted Waxbill (benguellensis), Common Waxbill (cavendishi), Quailfinch (fuscata), Orange-breasted Waxbill (clarkei), Blue Waxbill (niassensis), Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (katangae), Green-winged Pytilia (melba), Orange-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch (ruberrima), African Firefinch (congica), Jameson’s Firefinch (jamesoni), Village Indigobird (centralis), Purple Indigobird, Dusky Indigobird (nigerrima), Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Cuckoo-finch (imberbis), Cape Wagtail (simplicissima), Mountain Wagtail (torrentium), Rosy-throated Longclaw, African Pipit (lichenya), Wood Pipit (nyassae), Buffy Pipit (chobiensis), Plain-backed Pipit (bohndorffi), Striped Pipit, Bushveld Pipit (mzimbaensis), Black-throated Canary (lwenarum), Yellow-fronted Canary (samaliyae), Brimstone Canary, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, Golden-breasted Bunting and Cabanis’s Bunting (cognominata), also waterbirds including Wattled Crane and Shoebill as well as White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White-backed Duck (leuconotus), Spur-winged Goose (gambensis), Knob-billed Duck, Egyptian Goose, Blue-billed Teal, African Black Duck, Yellow-billed Duck, Red-billed Teal, Southern Pochard (brunnea), African Finfoot (petersii), African Rail, African Crake, Common Moorhen (meridionalis), Red-knobbed Coot, African Swamphen, Black Crake, Baillon’s Crake (intermedia), Striped Crake, Little Grebe, Water Thick-knee (vermiculatus), Black-winged Stilt, Three-banded Plover, Long-toed Lapwing (leucopterus), Blacksmith Lapwing, African Wattled Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Grey-headed Gull, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Reed Cormorant, African Sacred Ibis, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Dwarf Bittern, Little Bittern, Black Heron, Little Egret, Little Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron, Squacco Heron, Malagasy Pond Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Goliath Heron, Hamerkop and Pink-backed Pelican
Ruzizi Plain and Delta for Hartlaub’s Babbler, Collared Palm Thrush and Arnot’s Chat (collaris), as well as Red-necked Spurfowl (harterti), Lilac-breasted Roller, White-fronted Bee-eater, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Black-collared Barbet (pumilio), Grey-backed Fiscal (boehmi), Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark and Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
Lake Edward, Rwindi-Rutshuru Plain, Lake Kivu and Tchegera Island (Virunga NP and Rutshuru Hunting Area) for Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Yellow Warbler (gracilirostris), White-winged Swamp Warbler, Carruthers’s Cisticola, Northern Brown-throated Weaver and Papyrus Canary, Bare-faced Go-away-bird (leopoldi), Eastern Plantain-eater, Ross’s Turaco, Grey Crowned Crane, Brown-chested Lapwing, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill (subquadratus), Spot-flanked Barbet (radcliffei), Red-headed Lovebird (ugandae), Black-headed Gonolek, Trilling Cisticola (woosnami), Grey-capped Warbler, Black-lored Babbler (sharpei), Rüppell’s Starling, Swamp Flycatcher (infulata), Red-chested Sunbird, Slender-billed Weaver (pelzelni) and Fawn-breasted Waxbill (roseicrissa), as well as Harlequin Quail, Square-tailed Nightjar, African Palm Swift (myochrous), African Black Swift (roehli), Horus Swift, White-rumped Swift, Black-bellied Bustard, Blue-headed Coucal (fischeri), White-browed Coucal, Madagascar Cuckoo, Speckled Pigeon (guinea), Mourning Collared Dove (logonensis), Ring-necked Dove, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Buff-spotted Flufftail (reichenovi), Spotted Thick-knee (maculosus), Crowned Lapwing, Temminck’s Courser, Marabou Stork, Hadada Ibis (nilotica), Western Cattle Egret, Black-headed Heron, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk (typus), Lappet-faced Vulture, Brown Snake Eagle, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Yellow-billed Kite, African Fish Eagle, Southern White-faced Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Blue-naped Mousebird (griseogularis), Eurasian Hoopoe (africana), Common Scimitarbill, Crowned Hornbill, Broad-billed Roller (suahelicus), Woodland Kingfisher (senegalensis), Striped Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher (maxima), Little Bee-eater (meridionalis), White-throated Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (chrysoconus), Double-toothed Barbet (aequatorialis), Lesser Honeyguide (riggenbachi), Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Greater Honeyguide, Red-throated Wryneck (ruficollis), Nubian Woodpecker (nubica), Little Spotted Woodpecker (nyansae), Cardinal Woodpecker (lepidus), Common Kestrel, Grey Kestrel, African Hobby, Meyer’s Parrot (saturatus), Brown-throated Wattle-eye (nyansae), Orange-breasted Bushshrike (similis), Marsh Tchagra (minuta), Black-crowned Tchagra, Tropical Boubou, Brubru (massaicus), Black Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole (rolleti), Fork-tailed Drongo (fugax), Grey-backed Fiscal (excubitoroides), African Blue Flycatcher (teresita), Grey Penduline Tit (roccatii), Rufous-naped Lark (ruwenzoria), Flappet Lark (kawirondensis), White-tailed Lark, Red-capped Lark, Pale-throated Greenbul (flavigula), Grey-rumped Swallow, Brown-throated Martin (ducis), Wire-tailed Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler (amauroura), Red-faced Crombec (loringi), Lesser Swamp Warbler (jacksoni), Fan-tailed Grassbird, Red-faced Cisticola (sylvia), Winding Cisticola (nyansae), Zitting Cisticola (uropygialis), Tawny-flanked Prinia (graueri), Buff-bellied Warbler, Arrow-marked Babbler (emini), Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling (cyaniventris), Yellow-billed Oxpecker, African Thrush (centralis), White-browed Scrub Robin (zambesiana), White-browed Robin-Chat (heuglini), Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (melanonota), Sooty Chat, Scarlet-chested Sunbird (lamperti), Marico Sunbird (suahelicus), Thick-billed Weaver (melanota), Spectacled Weaver, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver (intermedius), Black-headed Weaver (fischeri), Red-billed Quelea (aethiopica), Southern Red Bishop, Yellow Bishop (crassirostris), Fan-tailed Widowbird (phoeniceus), White-winged Widowbird (eques), Red-collared Widowbird, Bronze Mannikin (cucullata), Crimson-rumped Waxbill (centralis), Quailfinch (dorsostriata), Green-winged Pytilia (belli), Red-billed Firefinch (ruberrima), Village Indigobird (centralis), Yellow-throated Longclaw, Plain-backed Pipit (zenkeri), Short-tailed Pipit and Black-throated Canary (somereni), also waterbirds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White-backed Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Egyptian Goose, Blue-billed Teal, Red-billed Teal, Southern Pochard, Common Moorhen, Red-knobbed Coot, African Swamphen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (infuscatus), Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, Water Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Pied Avocet, Three-banded Plover, Long-toed Lapwing (crassirostris), Spur-winged Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Lesser Jacana, African Jacana, Little Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Grey-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (fuscus), African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Saddle-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, African Darter, Reed Cormorant, Great Cormorant (lucidus), African Sacred Ibis, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, White-backed Night Heron (natalensis), Little Egret, Little Heron, Squacco Heron, Malagasy Pond Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Grey Heron, Goliath Heron, Hamerkop, Great White Pelican and Pink-backed Pelican
Lendu Plateau (Djugu Forest), Rwenzori Mountains and Virunga Volcanoes (Virunga NP and Sarambwe Nature Reserve (NR), Masisi Highlands, Tayna NR, Kisimba Ikobo Primate Reserve, Mitumba Mountains (Kahuzi-Biéga NP), Itombwe Massif (Itombwe NR and Burhinyi Community Forest), Misotshi-Kabogo Massif/Mount Kabobo (Kabobo WR, Ngandja NR and Luama-Katanga Hunting Area) and Marungu Highlands for Prigogine’s Nightjar, Itombwe Owl, Yellow-crested Helmetshrike, Grauer’s Cuckooshrike, Prigogine’s Greenbul, Kabobo Apalis, Chapin’s Babbler, Prigogine’s Double-collared Sunbird and Rockefeller’s Sunbird among other Albertine Rift endemics listed above, including Montane Nightjar (ruwenzorii), Albertine Owlet, Grauer’s Broadbill, Lagden’s Bushshrike (centralis) and Abyssinian Ground Thrush (tanganjicae), as well as highland taxa including Red-winged Francolin (kikuyuensis), Common Quail (erlangeri), Scaly Spurfowl (schuetti), Scarce Swift (chapini), Alpine Swift (maximus), Mottled Swift (aequatorialis), Black-billed Turaco (emini), Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (montanus), African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove (jacksoni), Dusky Turtle Dove, African Snipe (aequatorialis), Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk (sparsimfasciatus), Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk (rufiventris), Mountain Buzzard, Augur Buzzard, African Grass Owl, Abyssinian Owl (graueri), African Wood Owl (nigricantior), Speckled Mousebird (kiwuensis), Narina Trogon (narina), Bar-tailed Trogon, White-headed Wood Hoopoe (jacksoni), Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet (elgonensis), Grey-throated Barbet (cinereiceps), Western Tinkerbird (hildamariae), Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (mfumbiri), Least Honeyguide (pachyrhynchus), Fine-banded Woodpecker (taeniolaema), Olive Woodpecker (ruwenzori), African Broadbill (meinertzhageni), Chinspot Batis (puella), Many-colored Bushshrike (graueri), Doherty’s Bushshrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra (emini), Pink-footed Puffback (nandensis), Northern Puffback (erwini), Grey Cuckooshrike (purus), Petit’s Cuckooshrike, Mountain Oriole, African Paradise Flycatcher (kivuensis), Mackinnon’s Shrike, Northern Fiscal (smithii), White-necked Raven, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, White-bellied Crested Flycatcher (toroensis), White-tailed Crested Flycatcher (albonotata), White-winged Black Tit, Eastern Nicator, Black-collared Bulbul, Joyful Greenbul (laetissima/schoutedeni), Shelley’s Greenbul (kakamegae), Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, Cabanis’s Greenbul (sucosus), Yellow-streaked Greenbul (ESS graueri/olivaceogriseus), White-headed Saw-wing (albiceps), Black Saw-wing (ruwenzori), Banded Martin (suahelica), Red-throated Rock Martin (fusciventris), Blue Swallow, Angola Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow (emini), White-browed Crombec (leucophrys/chloronota/ESS chapini), Brown Woodland Warbler (wilhelmi/alpinus), African Yellow Warbler (massaica), Mountain Yellow Warbler, Bamboo Warbler (alfredi/kungwensis), Evergreen Forest Warbler (barakae/ufipae), Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (cinnamomeus/mildbreadi/nyassae), Highland Rush Warbler, Chubb’s Cisticola (chubbi/ESS marungensis), Short-winged Cisticola (ankole), Levaillant’s Cisticola (ESS dyleffi), Stout Cisticola (nuchalis), Wing-snapping Cisticola (entebbe/ESS itombwensis), Banded Prinia (obscura), Black-collared Apalis (pulcher/ESS murphyi), Black-throated Apalis (jacksoni), Chestnut-throated Apalis, Buff-throated Apalis, Grey Apalis (cinerea), Brown-headed Apalis (ESS dowsetti), Grey-backed Camaroptera (aschani), African Hill Babbler (ansorgei), Rwenzori Hill Babbler, Brown Parisoma (jacksoni/ESS prigoginei), Green White-eye (stuhlmanni/ESS reichenowi), Mountain Illadopsis, Grey-chested Babbler, Red-winged Starling (morio), Slender-billed Starling (theresae), Waller’s Starling (elgonensis), Stuhlmann’s Starling, Sharpe’s Starling, Abyssinian Ground Thrush (tanganjicae), African Thrush (graueri), Abyssinian Thrush (baraka/bambusicola), Chapin’s Flycatcher (lendu/ESS itombwensis), White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (toruensis/ESS semicinctus/nyikensis), African Dusky Flycatcher (pumila), White-starred Robin (ruwenzorii), White-bellied Robin-Chat (rufescentior), Cape Robin-Chat (kivuensis/iolaema), Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Short-tailed Akalat (ESS kaboboensis + schoutedeni), Equatorial Akalat (aequatorialis), African Stonechat (axillaris), Collared Sunbird (garguensis), Green-headed Sunbird (viridisplendens), Olive Sunbird (ragazzii), Bronze Sunbird (kilimensis), Malachite Sunbird (cupreonitens), Scarlet-tufted Sunbird (dartmouthi/ESS itombwensis), Golden-winged Sunbird (ESS shellyae), Northern Double-collared Sunbird (reichenowi), Variable Sunbird (igneiventris), Thick-billed Weaver (montana), Baglafecht Weaver (stuhlmanni), Black-billed Weaver (stephanophorus), Village Weaver (graueri), Dark-backed Weaver (mentalis), Brown-capped Weaver, White-collared Oliveback, Yellow-bellied Waxbill (kilimensis), Abyssinian Crimsonwing (ruwenzori), Red-faced Crimsonwing (ocularis), Chestnut-breasted Nigrita (saturatior), Grey-headed Nigrita (schistaceus), Black-headed Waxbill (ESS marungensis), Kandt’s Waxbill (kandti), Common Waxbill (adesma), Dusky Twinspot (graueri), African Firefinch (congica), Cape Wagtail (wellsi), Mountain Wagtail (chapini), African Pipit (ESS itombwensis), Long-billed Pipit (dewittei), Oriole Finch (prigoginei), Western Citril, Brimstone Canary (sharpii), Thick-billed Seedeater (tanganjicae), Streaky Seedeater (graueri), Yellow-crowned Canary (sassii) and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (tahapisi), also African Black Duck (leucostigma), Yellow-billed Duck (undulata) and Maccoa Duck
Nkuba Conservation Area for Bedford’s Paradise Flycatcher, Plumed Guineafowl (ESS schubotzi), Black-throated Coucal (neumanni), Sladen’s Barbet, Yellow-eyed Bristlebill and Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis), as well as Latham’s Francolin, Great Blue Turaco, Black-billed Turaco, Afep Pigeon, Western Bronze-naped Pigeon, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Finfoot (senegalensis), White-spotted Flufftail, Nkulengu Rail, Spot-breasted Ibis, Red-chested Owlet, Congo Pied Hornbill, White-thighed Hornbill, Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill, Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Black Bee-eater, Speckled Tinkerbird, African Piculet, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-eared Woodpecker, Grey Parrot, Rufous-sided Broadbill (budongoensis), Chestnut Wattle-eye, Lowland Sooty Boubou, Shining Drongo, Bates’s Paradise Flycatcher, Western Nicator, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Spotted Greenbul, Swamp Palm Bulbul, Honeyguide Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, Xavier’s Greenbul, Icterine Greenbul, Green Hylia, Brown Illadopsis, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Splendid Starling, Fraser’s Rufous Thrush, Fire-crested Alethe, Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Yellow-breasted Forest Robin, Tiny Sunbird and Blue-billed Malimbe
Ituri Forest (Okapi WR and Mount Hoyo Integral Reserve), Semliki Valley (Virunga NP), Usala Forest, Maiko NP, Kahuzi-Biéga NP and Itombwe NR for Congo Peafowl, Bedford’s Paradise Flycatcher and Yellow-legged Weaver, Nahan’s Partridge, Black-throated Coucal (neumanni), Ituri Batis, Sassi’s Olive Greenbul, Olive-green Camaroptera (toroensis/ESS kamitugaensis), Turner’s Eremomela (kalindei), Capuchin Babbler (bohndorffi), Oberländer’s Ground Thrush, Golden-naped Weaver, Jameson’s Antpecker and Grant’s Bluebill, as well as Black Guineafowl, Black Spinetail, Bates’s Swift, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo, White-naped Pigeon, Red-chested Flufftail (elizabethae), Grey-throated Rail, Olive Ibis (cupreipennis), Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk (ESS beniensis), African Goshawk (canescens), African Barred Owlet (castaneum), Sandy Scops Owl (holerythrus), Maned Owl, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl, Akun Eagle-Owl, Shelley’s Eagle-Owl, Forest Wood Hoopoe (brunneiceps), Cassin’s Honeybird, Zenker’s Honeyguide, Willcocks’s Honeyguide, Speckle-breasted Woodpecker, Black-collared Lovebird (emini), Grey-headed Broadbill (ESS eurylaemus), Rufous-sided Broadbill (budongoensis), Green-breasted Pitta, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (graueri), Jameson’s Wattle-eye, Fiery-breasted Bushshrike, Many-colored Bushshrike (batesi), Bocage’s Bushshrike (jacksoni), Red-eyed Puffback, Lühder’s Bushshrike, Purple-throated Cuckooshrike (martini), Eastern Wattled Cuckooshrike, Black-winged Oriole, Forest Penduline Tit (flavifrons/ESS ruthae), Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Red-tailed Bristlebill (woosnami), Little Grey Greenbul (ugandae), Toro Olive Greenbul, Square-tailed Saw-wing (ESS centralis), Black Saw-wing (chalybea), Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (congicus), Tit Hylia, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Banded Prinia (bairdii), White-chinned Prinia (reichenowi), Lowland Masked Apalis, Black-throated Apalis (minor), Black-capped Apalis (collaris), Black-faced Rufous Warbler (vulpinus), Green White-eye (toroensis), Pale-breasted Illadopsis (rufipennis), Southern Hyliota (slatini), Narrow-tailed Starling, Grey Ground Thrush (batesi), Black-eared Ground Thrush (graueri), Crossley’s Ground Thrush (ESS pilettei), Forest Scrub Robin (collsi), Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Little Grey Flycatcher, Yellow-footed Flycatcher, Tessmann’s Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe (carruthersi), Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat (bartteloti), Lowland Akalat (lopezi), Superb Sunbird (buvuma), Weyns’s Weaver, Black-headed Weaver (dimidiatus), Maxwell’s Black Weaver (holomelas), Preuss’s Weaver, Yellow-capped Weaver, Red-crowned Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe (centralis), Red-bellied Malimbe (ESS fagani), Black-crowned Waxbill (nonnula), Black-headed Waxbill (atricapilla) and Red-headed Bluebill (ruficapilla)
Lake Albert, Niarembe Escarpment and Ishwa Plain for Crested Francolin (grantii), Bruce’s Green Pigeon, Purple Roller (naevius), Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (heuglini), Little Bee-eater (ocularis), Spot-flanked Barbet (lacrymosa), White-headed Barbet (leucocephalus), Fox Kestrel, Lanner Falcon (biarmicus), Red-throated Rock Martin, Greater Swamp Warbler (ansorgei), White-winged Swamp Warbler, Rock-loving Cisticola (petrophilus), Foxy Cisticola, Spotted Palm Thrush, Mocking Cliff Chat (subrufipennis), Baglafecht Weaver (eremobius), Black-rumped Waxbill, White-rumped Seedeater (riggenbachi) and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Uele (Garamba NP, Azande, Mondo-Missa and Gangala na Bodio Hunting Areas and Bili-Uéré Protected Areas Complex) for Heuglin’s Spurfowl, Eastern Plantain-eater, White-crested Turaco, Egyptian Plover, Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle, Red-throated Bee-eater (frenatus), Black-billed Barbet, Black-breasted Barbet, Black-headed Gonolek, Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike, Emin’s Shrike, Sun Lark (bucolica), Black Saw-wing (mangbettorum), Preuss’s Cliff Swallow, Black-backed Cisticola (eximius), Red-winged Grey Warbler, Spotted Thrush-Babbler (turdina), Puvel’s Illadopsis (strenuipes), Dusky Babbler, White-collared Starling, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Palestine Sunbird (decorsei) and Orange Weaver, as well as Helmeted Guineafowl (meleagris), Stone Partridge (florentiae), Harlequin Quail, Fiery-necked Nightjar (nigriscapularis), Swamp Nightjar, Plain Nightjar, Freckled Nightjar (tristigma), Long-tailed Nightjar (sclateri), Slender-tailed Nightjar, Standard-winged Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Mottled Spinetail, Denham’s Bustard (denhami), Great Spotted Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Vinaceous Dove, Laughing Dove, Black-billed Wood Dove, Namaqua Dove, African Green Pigeon (uellensis), African Crake, Common Buttonquail, Senegal Thick-knee, African Wattled Lapwing (senegallus), Forbes’s Plover, Caspian Plover, Dwarf Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Western Cattle Egret, Black-headed Heron, Secretarybird, Black-winged Kite, Hooded Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Rüppell’s Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Tawny Eagle (belisarius), African Hawk-Eagle, Lizard Buzzard (monogrammicus), Dark Chanting Goshawk (metabates), Shikra (sphenurus), Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Grasshopper Buzzard, Red-necked Buzzard, Pearl-spotted Owlet (perlatum), African Scops Owl, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Speckled Mousebird (leucophthalmus/jebelensis), Eurasian Hoopoe (waibeli), Green Wood Hoopoe (niloticus), Black Scimitarbill (emini), Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill (nasutus), Abyssinian Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher (leucocephala), African Pygmy Kingfisher (picta), Little Bee-eater (pusillus), White-throated Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Vieillot’s Barbet (vieilloti), Red-throated Wryneck (pulchricollis), Fine-spotted Woodpecker (balia), Golden-tailed Woodpecker (chrysura), African Grey Woodpecker (goertae), Brown-backed Woodpecker (obsoletus), Red-necked Falcon, Meyer’s Parrot (meyeri), Red-headed Lovebird (pullarius), Western Black-headed Batis (erlangeri), Brown-throated Wattle-eye (nyansae), Grey-headed Bushshrike (catharoxanthus), Orange-breasted Bushshrike (sulfureopectus), Marsh Tchagra (minuta), Brown-crowned Tchagra (emini), Black-crowned Tchagra, Northern Puffback (malzacii), Tropical Boubou, Brubru (camerunensis), White-crested Helmetshrike (concinnatus), White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Black Cuckooshrike, Fork-tailed Drongo (lugubris), African Paradise Flycatcher (ferreti), Yellow-billed Shrike (affinis), Northern Fiscal (smithii), Piapiac, African Blue Flycatcher, White-shouldered Black Tit, Yellow Penduline Tit, Rufous-rumped Lark, Flappet Lark (tigrina), Brown-throated Martin (minor), Northern Crombec (carnapi), African Yellow Warbler (batesi), Singing Cicticola (belli), Whistling Cisticola (antinorii), Rattling Cisticola (simplex), Croaking Cisticola (strangei), Short-winged Cisticola (hypoxanthus), Tawny-flanked Prinia (melanorhyncha), Red-winged Prinia (jodoptera), Yellow-breasted Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera (abessinica), Green-backed Eremomela (canescens), Northern Yellow White-eye (senegalensis), Brown Babbler (cinerea), Yellow-bellied Hyliota (flavigaster), African Spotted Creeper (emini), Lesser Blue-eared Starling (chloropterus), Bronze-tailed Starling (emini), Purple Starling (amethystinus), Violet-backed Starling (leucogaster), Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Pale Flycatcher (pallidus/parvus), Northern Black Flycatcher (lugubris), Gambaga Flycatcher, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat (niveicapilla), Sooty Chat, White-fronted Black Chat (clericalis), Western Violet-backed Sunbird (longuemarei/haussarum), Pygmy Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird (acik), Beautiful Sunbird, Splendid Sunbird, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Little Weaver, Heuglin’s Masked Weaver, Northern Masked Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Black-headed Weaver (duboisi), Compact Weaver, Red-headed Weaver (leuconotos), Cardinal Quelea, Red-headed Quelea, Black Bishop (ansorgei), Northern Red Bishop, Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Grey-headed Oliveback, Common Waxbill (occidentalis), Fawn-breasted Waxbill (paludicola), Locust Finch (uelensis), Orange-breasted Waxbill (subflava), Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (bengalus), Red-winged Pytilia (emini), Dybowski’s Twinspot, Brown Twinspot, Black-bellied Firefinch, Bar-breasted Firefinch (lateritia), Black-faced Firefinch (nigricollis), Jambandu Indigobird, Wilson’s Indigobird, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah, Cuckoo-finch (butleri), Yellow-fronted Canary (barbata), West African Seedeater (elgonensis), Brown-rumped Bunting (affinis) and Cabanis’s Bunting (cabanisi)
Ubangi (Abumonbazi NR) for Western Plantain-eater, Guinea Turaco, African Cuckoo-Hawk (cuculoides), Northern White-faced Owl, White-headed Wood Hoopoe (bollei), Blue-bellied Roller, White-headed Barbet (adamauae), Niam-niam Parrot, Sharpe’s Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (schubotzi), Red-capped Lark, Preuss’s Cliff Swallow, Greater Swamp Warbler (rufescens), Singing Cisticola (adamauae), Oriole Warbler, Black-faced Rufous Warbler (rufus), Blackcap Babbler (stictilaema), Swamp Flycatcher (aquatica), Thick-billed Weaver (saturata), Yellow-winged Pytilia, Bar-breasted Firefinch (rufopicta) and Cameroon Indigobird
Also Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, Sankuru NR, Kokolopori Bonobo NR, Lyondji Bonobo Community Reserve, Luo Scientific Reserve, Maika-Penge, Rubi-Télé, Oshwe and Mangai Hunting Areas, Bushimaie Hunting Area and Reserve, Alunda and Tutshokwe and Tshikamba Integral Hunting Reserves and Luama-Kivu Hunting Area and Reserve
TIMING (Jul–Sep)
In moister, northern areas it is best to travel when it is dry and most forest birds breed (Jun–Aug), whereas in the south it is best immediately before the rains (Aug–Sep)
Avoid the main rains, which fall Mar–Apr and Oct–Nov in the north and Dec–Feb in the south
RESOURCES
Field guides
Birds of Africa South of the Sahara by Ian Sinclair & Peter Ryan (2010)
Birds of Western Africa by Nik Borrow & Ron Demey (2014) is better for most species
Sounds
African Bird Sounds Vol 2: West and Central Africa by Claude Chappuis
Site guides
Birding at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve by Marco Sacchi (1997)
Further reading
Avifauna chapter by Sam Jones & Gabriel Jamie in The Salonga NP Expedition: a Rapid Biodiversity Assessment in the Largest Forest Reserve in Africa, DRC by Merlijn Jocqué, Gabriel Jamie, Sam Jones, Menard Mbende, Dieux Merci Mpongo Iyomi, Jan Mertens, Miguel Nunes, Brogan Pett & Michiel van Noppen (2023)
Avifauna chapter by Gabriel Jamie & Sam Jones in The Malebo Expedition: a Biological Assessment of a Forest Metacommunity in a Savannah Matrix Landscape, DRC by Merlijn Jocqué, Junior Booto, Justin Ekani, Jesse Erens, Gabriel Jamie, Sam Jones, Menard Mbende, Tom Martin, Tim van Berkel & Niklas Weber (2022)
Birds of Katanga/Oiseaux du Katanga by Michel Louette & Michel Hasson (2011)
Democratic Republic of Congo: a Bird Checklist by Tommy Pedersen (2010)
Democratic Republic of Congo by Ron Demey & Michel Louette 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)
Avifauna of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Ituri Forest/Haut Zaïre: an Annotated Checklist by Marco Sacchi (1997)
Parc National de la Garamba: Checklist of Birds by Kes Hillman-Smith (1994)
Les Oiseaux du Zaïre by Leon Lippens & Henri Wille (1976)
The Avifauna of the Marungu Highlands/L’avifaune des Monts Marungu by Robert Dowsett & Alexandre Prigogine (1974)
Articles in Malimbus, Bull. ABC, Afropavo (Democratic Republic of Congo Birding Association), etc.
Websites
UNESCO World Heritage List: Garamba National Park, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Salonga National Park and Virunga National Park
Blogs
Katanga Birding by Andrew Hester (2009)
Facebook groups
Birding the Democratic Republic of Congo
ORGANISATIONS
There is currently no BirdLife Partner in the DRC
Bird or conservation organisations active in the DRC include –
Amicale Congolaise pour la Conservation des Oiseaux et Leurs Habitats
Alliance Congolaise des Organisations de Conservation des Oiseaux (ACOCO)
Coalition pour la Conservation au Congo (CoCoCongo)
Organisation Congolaise des Ecologistes et Amis de la Nature (OCEAN-RDC)
Front Commun pour la Protection de l’Environnement et des Espaces Protégés (FCPEEP)
Réseau pour la Conservation et la Réhabilitation des Écosystèmes Forestiers (Réseau CREF)
Centre d’Appui à la Gestion Durable des Forêts Tropicales (CAGDFT)
Forêt pour le Développement Intégral (FODI)
Congo Basin Conservation Society (CBCS)
Organisation of Biodiversity Information and Conservation in Congo-Kinshasa (OBICOK)
Horizon Nature
Biodiversité au Katanga (BAK)
Groupe d’Appui à la Conservation des Ecosystèmes de Basankusu et Bolomba (GACEBB)
Itombwe Génération pour l’Humanité (IGH)
Réseau des Associations pour la Conservation Communautaire du Massif d’Itombwe (RACCOMI)
Voix de la Nature (VONA)
Solidarité pour la Promotion Rurale (SOPR)
Action Communautaire de Développement et d’Encadrement Social (ACODES)
Fondation Bombo Lumene
M’bou Mon Tour (MMT)
Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO)
Conserv Congo
Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS)
Protection de la Faune et de la Flore Endémiques d’Afrique Central (PROFFAC)
WCS DR Congo
WWF-DRC
Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
African Parks: Garamba National Park and Kundelungu National Park
Virunga Foundation
Forgotten Parks Foundation: Upemba National Park
Lukuru Foundation and Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS): Lomami National Park
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund: Nkuba Conservation Area
Field Museum
Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) is the public institution in overall charge of conserving and preserving the DRC’s exceptional natural heritage, in cooperation with local communities and other partners
The ICCN Office in Bukavu oversees the operation of Kahuzi-Biéga NP and also has jurisdiction over the Itombwe Massif
Ornithological research is carried out at Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité (CSB) of the University of Kisangani
Research staff at Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles (CRSN), Lwiro, study the biological diversity of the southern Albertine Rift