Birds of Chad

List of Common Birds Found in Chad

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Roller
• African Fish-eagle
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Jacana
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Sacred Ibis
• African Skimmer
• African Spoonbill
• African Wattled Lapwing
• Ashy Starling
• Barn Owl
• Beautiful Sunbird
• Black-billed Wood Dove
• Black-crowned Tchagra
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-headed Lapwing
• Black-headed Plover
• Black-rumped Waxbill
• Black-throated Barbet
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue-breasted Bee-eater
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Blue-naped Mousebird
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark
• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Bulbul
• Common Ostrich 
• Crested Lark
• Cretzschmar’s Bunting 
• Crimson-rumped Waxbill
• Crowned Plover
• Diederik Cuckoo
• Eastern Gray Plantain-eater
• Egyptian Goose
• Egyptian Plover
• Eurasian Bee-eater
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• European Roller
• Fork-tailed Drongo 
• Four-banded Sandgrouse
• Garganey
• Giant Kingfisher
• Golden-tailed Woodpecker
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Gray-backed Fiscal
• Gray-headed Kingfisher
• Gray-headed Lapwing
• Great Cormorant
• Great Egret
• Greater Honeyguide
• Great White Pelican
• Green Sandpiper
• Hadada Ibis
• Hamerkop
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Hooded Vulture
• Klaas’s Cuckoo
• Kordofan Sparrow 
• Laughing Dove
• Levaillant’s Cuckoo
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Cormorant
• Magpie Shrike
• Marabou Stork
• Marbled Teal
• Mosque Swallow
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Red-billed Hornbill
• Nubian Woodpecker
• Osprey
• Pale Flycatcher
• Piapiac 
• Pied Crow
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Purple Heron
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Hornbill
• Red-billed Quelea
• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
• Red-chested Cuckoo
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-necked Falcon
• Red-pate Cisticola
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Ruppell’s Vulture
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Secretarybird
• Senegal Thick-knee
• Shikra
• Silverbird
• Singing Bush Lark
• Slender-billed Curlew
• Slender-billed Weaver
• Speckle-fronted Weaver
• Speckled Pigeon
• Spur-winged Goose
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Sudan Golden Sparrow
• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
• Tawny Eagle
• Temminck’s Courser
• Village Weaver
• Violet Turaco
• Vitelline Masked Weaver 
• Wahlberg’s Eagle
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• White-backed Vulture
• White-bellied Bustard
• White-billed Buffalo Weaver
• White-browed Coucal
• White-crowned Robin-chat
• White-faced Whistling Duck
• White-headed Lapwing
• White-throated Bee-eater
• Woodland Kingfisher
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Adamawa turtle-dove
• African collared-dove
• African crake
• African cuckoo
• African cuckoo-hawk
• African emerald cuckoo
• African green bee-eater
• African green-pigeon
• African hawk-eagle
• African palm-swift
• African pygmy-goose
• African swamphen
• Allen’s gallinule
• Arabian bustard
• Ayres’s hawk-eagle
• Baillon’s crake
• Banded snake-eagle
• Barbary partridge
• Bar-tailed lark
• Bateleur
• Bat hawk
• Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
• Black-bellied bustard
• Black coucal
• Black crake
• Black-crowned sparrow-lark
• Black cuckoo
• Black-headed gonolek
• Black kite
• Blue-billed teal
• Blue-breasted kingfisher
• Blue-headed coucal
• Blue quail
• Blue-spotted wood-dove
• Booted eagle
• Brown-necked raven
• Brubru
• Bruce’s green-pigeon
• Buff-bellied warbler
• Cape teal
• Clapperton’s francolin
• Common cuckoo
• Common quail
• Common swift
• Cricket longtail
• Croaking cisticola
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Dark chanting-goshawk
• Denham’s bustard
• Desert cisticola
• Desert lark
• Dorst’s cisticola
• Double-spurred francolin
• Dunn’s lark
• Eastern plantain-eater
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian vulture
• Eurasian coot
• Eurasian marsh-harrier
• Eurasian moorhen
• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian wigeon
• European bee-eater
• European honey-buzzard
• European turtle-dove
• Fan-tailed raven
• Ferruginous pochard
• Flappet lark
• Fulvous whistling-duck
• Gabar goshawk
• Gadwall
• Golden nightjar
• Gray-headed bushshrike
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater short-toed lark
• Great gray shrike
• Great spotted cuckoo
• Green-backed camaroptera
• Green-backed eremomela
• Green-winged teal
• Harlequin quail
• Heuglin’s francolin
• Horsfield’s bushlark
• Horus swift
• Isabelline shrike
• Knob-billed duck
• Kordofan lark
• Lesser gray shrike
• Lesser moorhen
• Lesser spotted eagle
• Levant sparrowhawk
• Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
• Little crake
• Little swift
• Lizard buzzard
• Long-legged buzzard
• Long-tailed nightjar
• Malachite kingfisher
• Martial eagle
• Masked shrike
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mottled swift
• Mourning collared-dove
• Northern carmine bee-eater
• Northern fiscal
• Northern pintail
• Northern puffback
• Northern shoveler
• Nubian bustard
• Oriole warbler
• Ovambo sparrowhawk
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Palm-nut vulture
• Pennant-winged nightjar
• Pied cuckoo
• Plain nightjar
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-fronted prinia
• Red kite
• Red-necked buzzard
• Red-tailed shrike
• Red-winged prinia
• River prinia
• Rock-loving cisticola
• Rock pigeon
• Rufous cisticola
• Rufous-naped lark
• Rufous-rumped lark
• Rüppell’s griffon
• Rusty lark
• Savile’s bustard
• Schlegel’s francolin
• Scissor-tailed kite
• Senegal coucal
• Senegal eremomela
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Siffling cisticola
• Singing cisticola
• Spotted crake
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Standard-winged nightjar
• Stone partridge
• Striped kingfisher
• Sulphur-breasted bushshrike
• Sun lark
• Swamp nightjar
• Tawny-flanked prinia
• Tropical boubou
• Tufted duck
• Verreaux’s eagle
• Vinaceous dove
• Western plantain-eater
• Whistling cisticola
• White-backed duck
• White-crested turaco
• White-headed vulture
• White-rumped swift
• White-tailed lark
• Winding cisticola
• Woodchat shrike
• Yellow-bellied eremomela
• Yellow-billed shrike
• Yellow-breasted apalis
• Yellow-crowned gonolek
• Zitting cisticola

Non-native Birds

• Common Chiffchaff
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Great Reed Warbler
• Narina Trogon
• Preuss’s Swallow
• Saker Falcon
• Savi’s Warbler
• Short-eared Owl
• Spanish Sparrow

Some of the best birding sites in Chad are Zakouma National Park, Goz Beida and the Sila Wildlife Reserve, and Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve – the last being a UNESCO World Heritage site. The breeding season from April to June is an excellent time to see a lot of bird activity, as is the dry season from November to April when many avifaunae concentrate around the shrinking water sources.