Moçambique | Mozambique

SUB-REGION
Southern Africa

SIZE
799,380 km²

BIRDS AND BIRDING

SPECIES
Diversity
Strongly Afrotropical avifauna
Approximately 760 recorded species

Endemics (E)
Namuli Apalis (EN)

Near-endemics (NE), including endemic subspecies (ESS)
Woodwards’ Batis
Rudd’s Apalis (ESS ruddi)
Neergaard’s Sunbird
Pink-throated Twinspot
Lemon-breasted Canary | Lemon-breasted Seedeater

Birds occurring in only two territories of the ABC region but not NE (1/2), including ESS
Kretschmer’s Longbill
Roberts’s Warbler | Briar Warbler
Chirinda Apalis
Long-billed Forest Warbler | Long-billed Tailorbird (ESS sousae)
Red-capped Forest Warbler | African Tailorbird
Dapple-throat | Dappled Mountain Robin (ESS orostruthus)
Brown Scrub Robin
Thyolo Alethe | Cholo Alethe (ESS namuli)

Birds best found in two territories but occurring in more (B2)
Olive-headed Weaver

Zambezian endemics or near-endemics (Z) occurring in Mozambique, including ESS
Pale-billed Hornbill
Racket-tailed Roller
Böhm’s Bee-eater
Whyte’s Barbet
Stierling’s Woodpecker
Dickinson’s Kestrel
Lilian’s Lovebird | Nyasa Lovebird
Souza’s Shrike
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
Rufous-bellied Tit
Miombo Tit
Red-capped Crombec
Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (ESS olivascens)
Meves’s Starling
Boulder Chat
Kurrichane Thrush
Miombo Scrub Robin
Collared Palm Thrush
Miombo Rock Thrush
Arnot’s Chat | White-headed Black Chat
Anchieta’s Sunbird | Red-and-blue Sunbird
Eastern Miombo Sunbird (ESS amicorum)
Shelley’s Sunbird
White-bellied Sunbird | White-breasted Sunbird
Olive-headed Weaver (B2)
Red-throated Twinspot | Peters’s Twinspot
Zambezi Indigobird | Green Indigobird
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah
Reichard’s Seedeater
Black-eared Seedeater

Proposed new species or splits not yet accepted by IOC
Kirk’s Francolin
African Quail
Usambara Nightjar
Grey-breasted Green Pigeon
Steppe Whimbrel (BT)
Cape Gull
White-breasted Cormorant
Bar-fronted Owlet
Mackinder’s Eagle-Owl
African Hoopoe
Southern Olive Woodpecker
Grey-headed Parrot
East African Pitta
Four-colored Bushshrike
Anchieta’s Tchagra
Southern African Crested Flycatcher
Cinnamon-breasted Tit (Z)
Placid Greenbul
Dark-capped Bulbul
Eastern Saw-wing
African Reed Warbler
Lazy Cisticola
Mozambique Forest Warbler (E)
Miombo Blue-eared Starling (Z)
Maputaland Scrub Robin (1/2)
Olive-flanked Robin-Chat (1/2)
Southern Red-headed Weaver
Black-fronted Red Bishop
Red-backed Mannikin
Spectacled Quailfinch | African Quailfinch
Vincent’s Bunting (B2)
Three-streaked Bunting

MAIN HABITATS
Coastal forest, montane forest, miombo woodland, floodplain grassland

BIRD AREAS
Eastern Zimbabwe mountains Endemic Bird Area (EBA)
South African forests EBA
South-east African coast EBA
Tanzania – Malawi mountains EBA
16 Important Bird Areas

BIRDING SITES
Serra Jeci/Njesi Highlands (Mount Chitagal, Mount Sanga and Njesi Plateau), Mount Inago, Namuli Massif, Mount Mabu, Mount Chiperone and Mount Mancuni for Namuli Apalis and Long-billed (Mozambique) Forest Warbler (ESS sousae), Red-capped Forest Warbler (metopias), Dapple-throat (ESS orostruthus), Thyolo Alethe (ESS namuli) and Olive-flanked Ground Robin (ESS gurue), Green Barbet (belcheri), Green Tinkerbird, Dark Batis, Malawi Batis (dimorpha), Green-headed Oriole (chlorocephalus), Black-browed Mountain Greenbul, Olive-headed Greenbul (olivaceiceps), Stripe-cheeked Greenbul, White-winged Apalis (macphersoni), Black-headed Apalis (ESS tenebricosa), Olive Thrush (milanjensis), East Coast Akalat (bensoni), Swynnerton’s Robin (swynnertoni), Forest Double-collared Sunbird (bensoni), Bertram’s Weaver and Southern Citril (hyposticta), as well as African Black Duck, Montane (Usambara) Nightjar (guttifer), Scarce Swift, Livingstone’s Turaco (livingstonii), African Emerald Cuckoo, African Olive Pigeon, Lemon Dove (larvata), Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Red-chested Flufftail, Crowned Eagle, African Goshawk (sparsimfasciata), Augur Buzzard, Cape Eagle-Owl (mackinderi), Bar-tailed Trogon (vittatum), Lanner Falcon, Red-throated Wryneck, Rock Kestrel, Black-fronted Bushshrike (sandgroundi), Grey Cuckooshrike, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher (subcaerulea), Little Greenbul (zombensis), Cabanis’s Greenbul (placidus), Yellow-streaked Greenbul (vincenti), Black Saw-wing (orientalis), Red-throated Rock Martin (fusciventris), African Red-rumped Swallow (emini), Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler (ESS quelimanensis), African Yellow Warbler (natalensis), Evergreen Forest Warbler (granti), Singing Cisticola (muenzneri), Wailing Cisticola (semifasciatus), African Hill Babbler (stierlingi), Southern Yellow White-eye (stierlingi), Red-winged Starling (morio), Orange Ground Thrush (disruptans), Cape Robin-Chat (iolaema), White-starred Robin (orientalis), African Stonechat (promiscuus), Olive Sunbird (alfredi), Eastern Miombo Sunbird (manoensis), Variable Sunbird (falkensteini), Dark-backed Weaver (stictifrons), Olive-headed Weaver, Black-and-white Mannikin (nigriceps), Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Red-faced Crimsonwing (australis), Mountain Wagtail, African Pipit (lichenya), Striped Pipit and Cabanis’s Bunting (orientalis)
Chipanje Chetu Community Conservation Area (CCA) for Stierling’s Woodpecker, as well as Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (stierlingi), Yellow-bellied Hyliota (barbozae), African Spotted Creeper (salvadori), Wood Pipit (nyassae) and Lesser Seedcracker
Niassa Special Reserve for Southern Crested Guineafowl (barbata), Crested Francolin (rovuma), Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl (johnstoni), Red-necked Spurfowl (melanogaster), Fiery-necked Nightjar (shelleyi), Freckled Nightjar (granosus), Square-tailed Nightjar (welwitschii), Mottled Spinetail, Böhm’s Spinetail, Grey Go-away-bird, Purple-crested Turaco (chlorochlamys), Thick-billed Cuckoo, Lemon Dove, African Green Pigeon (delalandii), Wattled Crane, White-crowned Lapwing, White-fronted Plover (mechowi), African Skimmer and Saddle-billed Stork among other waterbirds, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle, Gabar Goshawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, African Barred Owlet (ngamiense), Pel’s Fishing Owl, Southern Ground Hornbill, Pale-billed Hornbill (neumanni), Racket-tailed Roller, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, White-fronted Bee-eater, Böhm’s Bee-eater, Green Tinkerbird, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (extoni), Black-collared Barbet (zombae), Brown-breasted Barbet, Greater Honeyguide, Speckle-throated Woodpecker, Dickinson’s Kestrel, Taita Falcon, Brown-necked Parrot (suahelicus), Brown-headed Parrot (tanganyikae), African Pitta (longipennis), Pale Batis, White-crested Helmetshrike (poliocephalus), Retz’s Helmetshrike (tricolor), Square-tailed Drongo (muenzneri), Rufous-bellied Tit (pallidiventris), Grey Penduline Tit (robertsi), Eastern Nicator, Flappet Lark (fischeri), Sombre Greenbul (hypoxanthus), Grey-olive Greenbul (schoutedeni), Livingstone’s Flycatcher (thomsoni), Rattling Cisticola (emendatus), Rock-loving Cisticola (lurio), Red-winged Prinia (rhodoptera), Lesser Blue-eared Starling (elisabeth), Red-billed Oxpecker, Kurrichane Thrush (tropicalis), Bearded Scrub Robin (quadrivirgata), Ashy Flycatcher (impavida), Collared Palm Thrush, Arnot’s Chat (arnotti), Mocking Cliff Chat (subrufipennis), Familiar Chat (falkensteini), Western Violet-backed Sunbird (nyassae), Shelley’s Sunbird (shelleyi), White-bellied Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver (pectoralis), Red-collared Widowbird, Green-winged Pytilia (grotei), Orange-winged Pytilia, Red-throated Twinspot (macrospilotus), Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Reichard’s Seedeater and Cape Bunting (vincenti)
Cabo Delgado (Quirimbas National Park (NP) and coastal forests) and Nampula (Matibane Forest Reserve (FR) and Primeiras e Segundas Environmental Protection Area) for Woodwards’ Batis, Kretschmer’s Longbill (griseiceps), Fischer’s Greenbul, Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird and Zanzibar Red Bishop, breeding Sooty Tern and other seabirds offshore including Brown Noddy, Lesser Noddy, Bridled Tern, Black-naped Tern, Red-tailed Tropicbird, White-tailed Tropicbird, Wilson’s Storm Petrel, White-faced Storm Petrel, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Tropical Shearwater, Jouanin’s Petrel, Lesser Frigatebird, Great Frigatebird, Red-footed Booby and Masked Booby, as well as Crab-plover and Dimorphic Egret among other waders/shorebirds, Green Malkoha, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (patulus), Southern Banded Snake Eagle, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Red-faced Mousebird (pallidus), Narina Trogon (littorale), Mangrove Kingfisher, Olive Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, White-eared Barbet (leucotis), Pallid Honeyguide (angolensis), Sooty Falcon, African Broadbill (suahelicus), Gorgeous Bushshrike (nigricauda), Tropical Boubou (mossambicus), Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike (scopifrons), Lowland Tiny Greenbul (debilis), Common Reed Warbler (suahelicus), Black-headed Apalis (muhuluensis), Spotted Ground Thrush (fischeri), Red-capped Robin-Chat (intensa), East Coast Akalat (sokokensis), Black-bellied Starling (corusca), Grey Sunbird (fischeri), Eastern Golden Weaver (aureoflavus) and Yellow-crowned Bishop
Tete (Furancungo Woodlands, Tchuma Tchato CCA, Cahora Bassa Dam and Mágoè NP) for Pale-billed Hornbill, Racket-tailed Roller, Whyte’s Barbet (whytii), Stierling’s Woodpecker, Lilian’s Lovebird, Dickinson’s Kestrel, Souza’s Shrike, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher, Miombo Tit, Red-capped Crombec (chubbi), Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (irwini), Meves’s Starling (mevesii), Boulder Chat, Kurrichane Thrush, Miombo Rock Thrush, Arnot’s Chat, Anchieta’s Sunbird, Eastern Miombo Sunbird, White-bellied Sunbird, Olive-headed Weaver, Reichard’s Seedeater and Black-eared Seedeater, as well as Coqui Francolin (coqui), Shelley’s Francolin (shelleyi), Harlequin Quail, Natal Spurfowl, Swainson’s Spurfowl (swainsonii), Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl, Freckled Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, African Black Swift (roehli), Schalow’s Turaco, Senegal Coucal (flecki), White-browed Coucal (loandae), Double-banded Sandgrouse (multicolor), Mourning Collared Dove (ambigua), Namaqua Dove, African Green Pigeon (salvadorii), Streaky-breasted Flufftail, Striped Crake, Three-banded Courser, Black Stork, Palm-nut Vulture, Western Banded Snake Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Speckled Mousebird (simulans), Red-faced Mousebird (mossambicus), Southern Red-billed Hornbill, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (leucomelas), Purple Roller (mosambicus), White-fronted Bee-eater, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Crested Barbet (suahelicus), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Black-collared Barbet (pumilio), Bennett’s Woodpecker (bennettii), Bearded Woodpecker (namaquus), Cardinal Woodpecker (hartlaubii), Peregrine Falcon, Meyer’s Parrot, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Marsh Tchagra (reichenowi), Northern Fiscal (humeralis), Southern Black Tit (ravidus), Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark (madaraszi), Dusky Lark (nigricans), Red-capped Lark (saturatior), Grey-olive Greenbul, Long-billed Crombec (pallida), Barratt’s Warbler, Yellow-bellied Eremomela (helenorae), Burnt-necked Eremomela (rensi), Yellow-bellied Hyliota, African Spotted Creeper, Greater Blue-eared Starling (sycobius), Red-winged Starling, Copper Sunbird (chalceus), Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (ugandae), White-browed Sparrow-Weaver, Southern Brown-throated Weaver (xanthopterus), Yellow-mantled Widowbird, Cut-throat Finch (meridionalis), Wood Pipit (frondicolus), Southern Citril, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (tahapisi) and Cabanis’s Bunting, also White-winged Black Tit and waterbirds including Allen’s Gallinule, White-crowned Lapwing, Rock Pratincole and White-backed Night Heron
Zambezi Coutadas and Marromeu Complex for Woodwards’ Batis, Rufous-winged Cisticola (isodactylus) and Lemon-breasted Canary, Southern Banded Snake Eagle, Speckle-throated Woodpecker, African Pitta, Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike, Lowland Tiny Greenbul, Livingstone’s Flycatcher (francisi), Black-headed Apalis (lightoni), Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (ESS olivascens), White-chested Alethe, East Coast Akalat (ESS gunningi), Plain-backed Sunbird (reichenowi), Lesser Seedcracker, Red-throated Twinspot (niveoguttatus) and Zambezi Indigobird, plus Southern Crested Guineafowl (edouardi), Crested Francolin (zambesiae), Square-tailed Nightjar, Mottled Spinetail, Böhm’s Spinetail, Purple-crested Turaco, Black Coucal, Green Malkoha, African Emerald Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Black Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, Black-winged Kite, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, African Goshawk (tachiro), Little Sparrowhawk, Shikra, Black Sparrowhawk, African Barred Owlet, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, African Wood Owl, Narina Trogon, Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Mangrove Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, White-eared Barbet, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Black-collared Barbet (vivacens), Green-backed Honeybird (zambesiae), Pallid Honeyguide, Little Spotted Woodpecker (loveridgei), Brown-headed Parrot, African Broadbill (cryptoleucus), Tropical Boubou, Brubru (nigritemporalis), Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (clarens), African Golden Oriole, Square-tailed Drongo (tephrogaster), Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (megalolophus), Eastern Nicator, Flappet Lark, Sombre Greenbul, Yellow-streaked Greenbul (flavostriatus), Black Saw-wing, Grey-rumped Swallow, Mosque Swallow, Red-faced Crombec (whytii), Lesser Swamp Warbler (leptorhynchus), Short-winged Cisticola, Red-winged Prinia, Green-capped Eremomela (scotops), Southern Hyliota, Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Black-bellied Starling, Bearded Scrub Robin, Ashy Flycatcher (vulturna), Red-capped Robin-Chat, Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver, Black-winged Red Bishop, Magpie Mannikin, Green Twinspot, Grey Waxbill (incana) and Orange-breasted Waxbill, as well as waterbirds including Buff-spotted Flufftail, Wattled Crane, Lesser Moorhen, Little Grebe, Long-toed Lapwing, Saddle-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, Goliath Heron and Great White Pelican
Khodzoe Gorge for African Finfoot, as well as Bat Hawk and Half-collared Kingfisher (tephria)
Gorongosa NP (and Buffer Zone) for Cape Batis (erythrophthalma), Olive Bushshrike (interfluvius), Green-headed Oriole (ESS speculifer), Stripe-cheeked Greenbul, Barratt’s Warbler (priesti), Chirinda Apalis (chirindensis), Olive Thrush (swynnertoni) and Swynnerton’s Robin, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Mottled Swift, African Black Swift (oreobates), Livingstone’s Turaco (cabanisi), Burchell’s Coucal (fasciipygialis), Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (delegorguei), Lemon Dove, Grey Crowned Crane, Senegal Lapwing, Bronze-winged Courser, Palm-nut Vulture, African Cuckoo-Hawk, White-headed Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, Hooded Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Bateleur, Crowned Eagle, Martial Eagle, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Southern Ground Hornbill, Racket-tailed Roller, Giant Kingfisher, White-fronted Bee-eater, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Red-necked Falcon, Dickinson’s Kestrel, Brown-necked Parrot, Pale Batis, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Marsh Tchagra, Retz’s Helmetshrike, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher (swynnertoni), Grey Penduline Tit, Fan-tailed Grassbird (brevirostris), Singing Cisticola, Wailing Cisticola (ESS oreobates), Neddicky, Bar-throated Apalis (quarta), Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler (alacris), Red-winged Starling, Orange Ground Thrush, Kurrichane Thrush (libonyana), White-starred Robin (transvaalensis), Collared Palm Thrush, Cape Robin-Chat (caffer), African Stonechat, Arnot’s Chat, Capped Wheatear, Olive Sunbird (sclateri), Eastern Miombo Sunbird (ESS amicorum), Red-headed Weaver (rubriceps), Red-headed Quelea, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Orange-winged Pytilia, Jameson’s Firefinch, Purple Indigobird, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Mountain Wagtail, Striped Pipit, Black-eared Seedeater and Cabanis’s Bunting, Allen’s Gallinule, Greater Flamingo, White-crowned Lapwing, Lesser Jacana, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, African Skimmer, Dwarf Bittern, Black Heron and Pink-backed Pelican among other waterbirds, also Caspian Plover, as well as more common or widespread birds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Knob-billed Duck, Egyptian Goose, Helmeted Guineafowl, Red-necked Spurfowl (swynnertoni), Fiery-necked Nightjar (crepusculans), Grey Go-away-bird, Black-bellied Bustard, Senegal Coucal, Jacobin Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Diederik Cuckoo, Red-eyed Dove, Ring-necked Dove, Laughing Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Baillon’s Crake, Common Buttonquail, Water Thick-knee, Three-banded Plover, Blacksmith Lapwing, African Wattled Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, African Jacana, Temminck’s Courser, Whiskered Tern, African Openbill, Marabou Stork, Yellow-billed Stork, African Darter, Reed Cormorant, African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Egret, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Black-headed Heron, Hamerkop, African Harrier-Hawk, Black-chested Snake Eagle, Brown Snake-Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Tawny Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Gabar Goshawk, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Lizard Buzzard, African Fish Eagle, African Scops Owl, Southern White-faced Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Speckled Mousebird, Red-faced Mousebird, Common Hoopoe, Green Wood Hoopoe, Common Scimitarbill, Crowned Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Trumpeter Hornbill, Lilac-breasted Roller, Broad-billed Roller, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Brown-hooded Kingfisher, Striped Kingfisher, Woodland Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater, Lesser Honeyguide (teitensis), Greater Honeyguide, Golden-tailed Woodpecker (suahelica), Bearded Woodpecker, Cardinal Woodpecker (natalensis), Chinspot Batis, Grey-headed Bushshrike, Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra (minor), Black-crowned Tchagra, White-crested Helmetshrike, Black Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole, Fork-tailed Drongo, African Paradise Flycatcher, Pied Crow, Southern Black Tit, Yellow-bellied Greenbul, Terrestrial Brownbul, Common Bulbul, Wire-tailed Swallow, Lesser Striped Swallow, Moustached Grass Warbler, African Yellow Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Rattling Cisticola (procerus), Croaking Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Grey-backed Camaroptera (beirensis), Southern Yellow White-eye (anderssoni), Arrow-marked Babbler (kirkii), Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling, Violet-backed Starling, Red-billed Oxpecker, White-browed Scrub Robin (zambesiana), Pale Flycatcher (divisus), Grey Tit-Flycatcher (orientalis), Southern Black Flycatcher, African Dusky Flycatcher (subadusta), White-browed Robin-Chat (heuglini), Collared Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Southern Grey-headed Sparrow, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, Spectacled Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver, Southern Masked Weaver, Village Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Yellow Bishop, Southern Red Bishop, White-winged Widowbird, Bronze Mannikin, Blue Waxbill (niassensis), Green-winged Pytilia, Red-billed Firefinch, Village Indigobird, Pin-tailed Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, African Pied Wagtail, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit and Yellow-fronted Canary (mozambica)
Rio Savane Wetlands for Rufous-winged Cisticola as well as African Black Duck, Blue Quail, Wattled Crane, Black-rumped Buttonquail, Great Snipe, African Snipe (aequatorialis), Collared Pratincole, Rufous-bellied Heron, African Marsh Harrier, Marsh Owl, Zitting Cisticola, Copper Sunbird, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Magpie Mannikin, Common Waxbill, Quailfinch (digressa), Locust Finch (locustella), Lesser Seedcracker, Cuckoo-finch and Short-tailed Pipit (brachyurus)
Choa Mountains, Mount Tsetsera and Chimanimani NP for Cape Batis, Olive Bushshrike, Bokmakierie (restrictus), Stripe-cheeked Greenbul, Blue Swallow, Cape Grassbird (excisus), Barratt’s Warbler, Roberts’s Warbler, Chirinda Apalis, Gurney’s Sugarbird (ardens), Olive Thrush, Swynnerton’s Robin, Cape Longclaw (stabilior) and Cape Canary (griseitergum), African Black Duck, Natal Spurfowl, Common Quail (erlangeri), Freckled Nightjar, Scarce Swift, African Black Swift, Livingstone’s Turaco (livingstonii), Speckled Pigeon, Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon, Lemon Dove, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Buff-spotted Flufftail, Verreaux’s Eagle, Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Augur Buzzard, Cape Eagle-Owl, Speckled Mousebird (rhodesiae), Rock Kestrel, Lanner Falcon, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Grey Cuckooshrike, Southern Fiscal, White-necked Raven, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Red-throated Rock Martin, White-throated Swallow, Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler, Fan-tailed Grassbird, Rock-loving Cisticola (nyika), Wailing Cisticola (mashona), Levaillant’s Cisticola, Wing-snapping Cisticola, Bar-throated Apalis (arnoldi), Red-winged Starling, Orange Ground Thrush, Cape Robin-Chat, White-starred Robin, Mocking Cliff Chat (odica), Familiar Chat (modesta), Olive Sunbird, Bronze Sunbird, Malachite Sunbird, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Red-faced Crimsonwing, Mountain Wagtail, Striped Pipit, Streaky-headed Seedeater (mendosa), Cinnamon-breasted Bunting and Cape Bunting (smithersii), Racket-tailed Roller, Whyte’s Barbet, Green-backed Honeybird, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Rufous-bellied Tit, Miombo Tit, Grey Penduline Tit, Red-faced Crombec, Neddicky, Stierling’s Wren-Warbler, Green-capped Eremomela, Southern Hyliota, African Spotted Creeper (xylodromus), Kurrichane Thrush, Miombo Rock Thrush, Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Amethyst Sunbird (kirkii), Eastern Miombo Sunbird, Wood Pipit, Black-eared Seedeater and Cabanis’s Bunting, as well as Half-collared Kingfisher, White-eared Barbet, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Pale Batis, Chinspot Batis (palliditergum), African Yellow Warbler, Singing Cisticola, African Stonechat, Variable Sunbird, Holub’s Golden Weaver, Yellow Bishop, Red-collared Widowbird, Black-and-white Mannikin, Grey Waxbill, African Firefinch, Dusky Indigobird, Brimstone Canary and Golden-breasted Bunting (kalaharica)
São Sebastião Peninsula (Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary) and Bazaruto Archipelago NP for Rufous-winged Cisticola (galactotes) and Lemon-breasted Canary, waders/shorebirds including African Oystercatcher, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Tibetan Sand Plover, Greater Sand Plover, White-fronted Plover (arenaceus), Eurasian Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, African Snipe, Terek Sandpiper, Red Knot and Crab-plover, Saunders’s Tern, Damara Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Caspian Tern, Roseate Tern, Lesser Crested Tern and Greater Crested Tern among other larids, as well as White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Southern Crested Guineafowl, Fiery-necked Nightjar, Purple-crested Turaco (porphyreolophus), Burchell’s Coucal (burchellii), Black Cuckoo, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, Spotted Thick-knee, African Openbill, African Woolly-necked Stork, Pink-backed Pelican, Osprey, African Cuckoo-Hawk, Black Sparrowhawk, Mangrove Kingfisher, Olive Bee-eater, Pale Batis, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Gorgeous Bushshrike (quartus), Southern Boubou (savensis), Southern Black Tit (niger), Eastern Nicator, Sombre Greenbul (oleaginus), Red-faced Crombec, Little Rush Warbler, Black-bellied Starling, Bearded Scrub Robin, Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Ashy Flycatcher (caerulescens), White-throated Robin-Chat, Collared Palm Thrush, Grey Sunbird, White-bellied Sunbird, Eastern Golden Weaver, Yellow Bishop and Brimstone Canary
Unguana area for Woodwards’ Batis and Rudd’s Apalis (ESS ruddi), as well as Mottled Spinetail, Böhm’s Spinetail, African Goshawk, Green Tinkerbird, Brown-headed Parrot (cryptoxanthus), Olive Bushshrike (vitorum), Mosque Swallow and Black-headed Apalis (addenda)
Dunes de Dovela for Woodwards’ Batis, Brown (Maputaland) Scrub Robin (tongensis) and Lemon-breasted Canary, Southern Boubou, Livingstone’s Flycatcher, Black-headed Apalis, Spotted Ground Thrush (guttata) and Plain-backed Sunbird, as well as African Pygmy Goose, Yellow-billed Duck, Shelley’s Francolin, Purple-crested Turaco, Burchell’s Coucal, Green Malkoha, African Cuckoo-Hawk, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Speckled Mousebird (integralis), Broad-billed Roller, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Little Spotted Woodpecker, Dickinson’s Kestrel, Sooty Falcon, African Hobby, Gorgeous Bushshrike, Eastern Nicator, Flappet Lark (pintoi), Rattling Cisticola (campestris), Bearded Scrub Robin, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Grey Sunbird, Thick-billed Weaver, Dark-backed Weaver and Grey Waxbill
Panda Woodlands for Neergaard’s Sunbird and Olive-headed Weaver, as well as Coqui Francolin, Böhm’s Spinetail, Thick-billed Cuckoo, Brown Snake Eagle, Lizard Buzzard, Shikra, African Barred Owlet (capense), Racket-tailed Roller, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Green-backed Honeybird, Greater Honeyguide, Brown-headed Parrot, Pale Batis, Grey-headed Bushshrike, Brubru (miombensis), Retz’s Helmetshrike, White-breasted Cuckooshrike, Grey Penduline Tit (hellmayri), Fawn-colored Lark (vincenti), Red-faced Crombec, Neddicky (muelleri), Stierling’s Wren-Warbler (pintoi), Southern Yellow White-eye (tongensis), Southern Hyliota, Violet-backed Starling, Kurrichane Thrush (peripheris), Pale Flycatcher (sibilans), Amethyst Sunbird, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow, Red-headed Weaver, Black-eared Seedeater and Golden-breasted Bunting
Panda-Inharrime Wetlands for Eurasian Bittern (capensis), Rufous-winged Cisticola and Lemon-breasted Canary, as well as White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Yellow-billed Duck, Black-rumped Buttonquail, Greater Painted-snipe, Lesser Jacana, African Snipe (nigripennis), Black Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron and African Marsh Harrier
Zinave NP, Banhine NP, Limpopo NP and Karingani Game Reserve for Common Ostrich (australis), Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin (sephaena), Harlequin Quail, Natal Spurfowl, Swainson’s Spurfowl (lundazi), Horus Swift, Grey Go-away-bird, Kori Bustard, Red-crested Korhaan, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Double-banded Sandgrouse, Mourning Collared Dove, Namaqua Dove, Common Buttonquail, Spotted Thick-knee, Crowned Lapwing, Bronze-winged Courser, Marabou Stork, Abdim’s Stork, Secretarybird, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, Tawny Eagle, African Hawk-Eagle, Gabar Goshawk, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Pearl-spotted Owlet, African Scops Owl, Southern White-faced Owl, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl, Red-faced Mousebird (transvaalensis), Narina Trogon (narina), Green Wood Hoopoe, Southern Ground Hornbill, Southern Red-billed Hornbill, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, African Grey Hornbill, Purple Roller, Lilac-breasted Roller, Striped Kingfisher, Woodland Kingfisher, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, White-fronted Bee-eater, Crested Barbet (vaillantii), Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Acacia Pied Barbet (affinis), Bennett’s Woodpecker, Bearded Woodpecker (coalescens), Dickinson’s Kestrel, Brown-necked Parrot, Tropical Boubou (limpopoensis), Brubru (solivagus), White-crested Helmetshrike, Magpie Shrike, Southern White-crowned Shrike, Southern Fiscal (pyrrhostictus), Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark (smithi), Sabota Lark (suffusca), Monotonous Lark, Red-capped Lark (alluvia), Rattling Cisticola (chiniana), Desert Cisticola, Green-backed Camaroptera (constans), Yellow-bellied Eremomela (polioxantha), Burnt-necked Eremomela (usticollis), Arrow-marked Babbler (jardineii), Wattled Starling, Greater Blue-eared Starling (nordmanni), Meves’s Starling, Burchell’s Starling, Red-billed Oxpecker, Groundscraper Thrush (litsitsirupa), Marico Flycatcher, White-browed Robin-Chat, White-throated Robin-Chat, Arnot’s Chat, Marico Sunbird (mariquensis), Red-billed Buffalo Weaver (niger), White-browed Sparrow-Weaver, Red-billed Quelea, Violet-eared Waxbill, Green-winged Pytilia (melba), Cut-throat Finch (contigua), Jameson’s Firefinch, Purple Indigobird, Shaft-tailed Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Buffy Pipit (vaalensis) and Streaky-headed Seedeater (endemion), waterbirds such as Knob-billed Duck, African Skimmer and Dwarf Bittern, as well as Woodwards’ Batis, Rudd’s Apalis (fumosa), Brown Scrub Robin, Pink-throated Twinspot and Lemon-breasted Canary
Maputo (Macaneta, Salinas Zacharia, Licuáti FR, Bela Vista Wetlands, Maputo NP, Machangulo Peninsula, Inhaca Island, Ponta Malongane and Ponta do Ouro) for Woodwards’ Batis, Rufous-winged Cisticola, Rudd’s Apalis, Brown Scrub Robin, Neergaard’s Sunbird, Pink-throated Twinspot and Lemon-breasted Canary, Southern Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Olive Bushshrike (olivaceus), Southern Boubou (tongensis), Fiscal Flycatcher, White-throated Robin-Chat and Cape Longclaw (colletti), Southern Crested Guineafowl, Shelley’s Francolin, Common Quail (africana), Swamp Nightjar, Livingstone’s Turaco (cabanisi), Denham’s Bustard, Black Coucal, Green Malkoha, Black-rumped Buttonquail, Senegal Lapwing, Palm-nut Vulture, Southern Banded Snake Eagle, African Cuckoo-Hawk, Crowned Eagle, African Marsh Harrier, Marsh Owl, Narina Trogon (littorale), Mangrove Kingfisher, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Olive Bee-eater, White-eared Barbet, Brown-backed Honeybird, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Sooty Falcon, Brown-headed Parrot, African Broadbill, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Gorgeous Bushshrike, Square-tailed Drongo (ludwigii), Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (segregus), Grey Penduline Tit, Eastern Nicator, Black Saw-wing (holomelas), Cloud Cisticola (marleyi), Pale-crowned Cisticola (egregius), Black-bellied Starling, Spotted Ground Thrush, Bearded Scrub Robin, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Grey Sunbird, Eastern Golden Weaver, Southern Brown-throated Weaver (marleyi), Dark-backed Weaver, Red-headed Quelea, Magpie Mannikin, Grey Waxbill, Quailfinch, Cape Wagtail, Rosy-throated Longclaw (ameliae) and Bushveld Pipit (traylori), waterbirds including Fulvous Whistling Duck, White-backed Duck, African Pygmy Goose, Cape Shoveler, Yellow-billed Duck, Cape Teal, Southern Pochard, Red-chested Flufftail, African Rail, Lesser Moorhen, Red-knobbed Coot, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, Pied Avocet, Tibetan Sand Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Chestnut-banded Plover, Greater Painted-snipe, Lesser Jacana, Eurasian (Steppe) Whimbrel (alboaxillaris), Eurasian Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, African Snipe, Terek Sandpiper, Red Knot, Crab-plover, Lesser Crested Tern, Greater Crested Tern, Kelp (Cape) Gull (vetula), Saddle-billed Stork, Black Heron, Rufous-bellied Heron, Goliath Heron, Great White Pelican and Pink-backed Pelican, as well as more common or widespread birds including White-faced Whistling Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Egyptian Goose, Blue-billed Teal, Red-billed Teal, Helmeted Guineafowl, Crested Francolin, Red-necked Spurfowl, Fiery-necked Nightjar, Square-tailed Nightjar, African Palm Swift, Little Swift, White-rumped Swift, Purple-crested Turaco, Black-bellied Bustard, Burchell’s Coucal, Diederik Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Red-chested Cuckoo, Laughing Dove, Red-eyed Dove, Ring-necked Dove, Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon, Common Moorhen, African Swamphen, Black Crake, Little Grebe, Water Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Grey Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Three-banded Plover, Blacksmith Lapwing, African Wattled Lapwing, Kittlitz’s Plover, White-fronted Plover, African Jacana, Eurasian (European) Whimbrel (phaeopus), Common Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper, Sanderling, Little Stint, Temminck’s Courser, Collared Pratincole, Little Tern, Caspian Tern, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, Grey-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, African Openbill, Yellow-billed Stork, African Woolly-necked Stork, African Darter, Reed Cormorant, Great Cormorant (lucidus), African Sacred Ibis, Hadada Ibis, Glossy Ibis, African Spoonbill, Little Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Little Heron, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Yellow-billed Egret, Western Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Black-headed Heron, Hamerkop, Osprey, Black-winged Kite, African Harrier-Hawk, Black-chested Snake Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, Little Sparrowhawk, Yellow-billed Kite, African Fish Eagle, Western Barn Owl, Speckled Mousebird (minor), Common Hoopoe (africana), Common Scimitarbill, Crowned Hornbill, Trumpeter Hornbill, Brown-hooded Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, Little Bee-eater, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird, Black-collared Barbet, Lesser Honeyguide (minor), Golden-tailed Woodpecker (constricta), Cardinal Woodpecker (intermedius), Peregrine Falcon, Chinspot Batis (molitor), Orange-breasted Bushshrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra (australis), Black-crowned Tchagra, Black-backed Puffback, Black Cuckooshrike, Black-headed Oriole (tibicen), Fork-tailed Drongo, African Paradise Flycatcher, Southern Fiscal (collaris), Pied Crow, Southern Black Tit, Rufous-naped Lark (transvaalensis), Sombre Greenbul, Yellow-bellied Greenbul, Terrestrial Brownbul, Common Bulbul, Grey-rumped Swallow, Banded Martin, Brown-throated Martin, Wire-tailed Swallow, Lesser Striped Swallow, Red-breasted Swallow, Long-billed Crombec, Lesser Swamp Warbler (gracilirostris), Common Reed Warbler (cinnamomeus), African Yellow Warbler, Little Rush Warbler, Red-faced Cisticola, Rattling Cisticola (campestris), Croaking Cisticola, Zitting Cisticola, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Green-backed Camaroptera, Southern Yellow White-eye, Cape Starling, Kurrichane Thrush, White-browed Scrub Robin (leucophrys), Southern Black Flycatcher (ater), African Dusky Flycatcher (fuscula), African Stonechat (torquatus), Collared Sunbird, Olive Sunbird (olivacina), Scarlet-chested Sunbird, White-bellied Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Southern Grey-headed Sparrow, Spectacled Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver, Southern Masked Weaver, Village Weaver, Southern Red Bishop, White-winged Widowbird, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Bronze Mannikin, Black-and-white Mannikin, Orange-breasted Waxbill, Common Waxbill, Blue Waxbill, Red-billed Firefinch, Pin-tailed Whydah, Village Indigobird, African Pied Wagtail, Yellow-throated Longclaw, African Pipit, Plain-backed Pipit (leucophrys), Yellow-fronted Canary (granti) and Brimstone Canary, also vagrants such as Pacific Golden Plover, Great Knot, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Long-toed Stint, Red-necked Stint, White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Black-headed Gull and Franklin’s Gull
Offshore for seabirds including Red Phalarope, Black Tern, Arctic Tern, Antarctic Tern, Sabine’s Gull, Long-tailed Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, Pomarine Jaeger, Brown Skua, South Polar Skua, Black-bellied Storm Petrel, Snowy Albatross, Sooty Albatross, Light-mantled Albatross, Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatros, Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, Shy Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, European Storm Petrel, Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel, Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel, Leach’s Storm Petrel, Southern Giant Petrel, Northern Giant Petrel, Pintado Petrel, Broad-billed Prion, Salvin’s Prion, Antarctic Prion, Slender-billed Prion, Great-winged Petrel, Soft-plumaged Petrel, Barau’s Petrel, Mascarene Petrel, Grey Petrel, White-chinned Petrel, Cory’s Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Bulwer’s Petrel, Cape Gannet and Cape Cormorant
Libombos Mountains for Cape Vulture, Jackal Buzzard, Olive Woodpecker (griseocephalus), Cape Batis (hollidayi), Large Rock Martin (pretoriae), Cape White-eye (virens), Sentinel Rock Thrush (tenebriformis), Swee Waxbill and Nicholson’s Pipit (nicholsoni), as well as African Black Duck, Freckled Nightjar, African Black Swift (barbatus), Black Stork, Lanner Falcon, White-necked Raven, Neddicky (lebombo), Rock-loving Cisticola (minor), Bar-throated Apalis (lebomboensis), Red-winged Starling, Mocking Cliff Chat (autochthones), Familiar Chat (hellmayri), Amethyst Sunbird (amethystina), African Firefinch, Dusky Indigobird, Mountain Wagtail and Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
Also Lago Niassa National Reserve (NR), Gilé NP, Mitchéu CCA and Pomene NR

TIMING (Aug–Sep, Dec)
Best at the end of the dry season, when most birds breed
African Pitta displays mostly in Dec
Avoid the main rains (Jan–Apr)

RESOURCES (see also South Africa)
Apps
Birds of Africa (iOS or Android)
Roberts Bird Guide 2 covers most species

Field guides
Birds of Greater Southern Africa by Keith Barnes, Terry Stevenson & John Fanshawe (2024)
Birds of Southern Africa by Ber van Perlo (2009)
Sasol Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton, Niall Perrins, Dominic Rollinson & Peter Ryan (2020) is better for birds occurring south of the Zambezi River
Birds of Africa South of the Sahara by Ian Sinclair & Peter Ryan (2010)

Sounds
Southern African Bird Sounds by Guy Gibbon covers most species

Site guides
Southern African Birdfinder by Callan Cohen, Claire Spottiswoode & Jonathan Rossouw (2006)
Pelagic Birding Trips in the Southern Mozambique Channel by Peter G Ryan, John Graham & Andrew C Sutherland (2006)
A Productive Birding Transect from Highland Zimbabwe to Coastal Mozambique by Chris Lotz (2012)

Atlases
Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2 (SABAP2), a member of the African Bird Atlas Project
The Atlas of the Birds of Central Mozambique by Vincent Parker (2005)
The Atlas of the Birds of Sul do Save, Southern Mozambique by Vincent Parker (1999)

Further reading
Roberts Birds of Southern Africa edited by P A R Hockey, W R J Dean & P G Ryan (2005) with Roberts 8 updates for species occurring south of the Zambezi River
Mozambique by Vincent Parker in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation edited by Lincoln D C Fishpool & Michael I Evans (2001)
Avifauna chapter by Sam Jones & Gabriel Jaimie in The Njesi Plateau Expedition: a Biological Assessment of Mt Chitagal, Mt Sanga and the Njesi Plateau in Niassa Province, Mozambique by Sam Jones, Justin Clause, Lore Geeraert, Gabriel Jamie, Emidio Sumbane, Tim van Berkel & Merlijn Jocque (2017)
Birds of the Niassa Reserve, Mozambique by Vincent Parker (2005)
Birds of the Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique by Vincent Parker & Fred de Boer (2000)
Birds of Inhaca Island, Mozambique by Fred de Boer & Carlos Bento (1999)
The Birds of Southern Mozambique by Phillip A Clancey (1996)
Articles in Scopus, Bull. ABC, etc.

Websites
UNESCO World Heritage List: iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park

Blogs
Maputo Special Reserve: Southern Mozambique’s Unknown Birding Gem by Dominic Rollinson (2021)

ORGANISATIONS

There is currently no BirdLife Partner in Mozambique

Bird or conservation organisations active in Mozambique include –
Associação Ambiente, Conservação e Educação Moçambique (AACEM)/Birds Mozambique
Association for the Conservation of Birds and Bats of Mozambique
Fórum Natureza em Perigo (FNP)/Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT)
Justiça Ambiental (JA!)
Associação Amigos da Floresta de Moçambique/Trees4Moz
Sociedade para a Gestão e Desenvolvimento da Reserva do Niassa (SGDRN)
Legado: Namuli
Cabo Delgado Biodiversity and Tourism Project (Zoological Society of London)
Biofund – Fundação para a Conservação da Biodiversidade
Eden Reforestation Projects
Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO)
African Safari Foundation (ASF)
Karingani
Pembi Wildlife Conservancy
Blue Ventures
Marine Megafauna Foundation
African Parks: Bazaruto Archipelago National Park
Peace Parks Foundation: Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area and Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area
FFS-IGF: Parque Nacional do Gilé
Carr Foundation: Parque Nacional da Gorongosa/Gorongosa National Park 
Fauna & Flora International (FFI): Niassa Special Reserve
WCS Mozambique: Niassa Special Reserve
WWF Mozambique